OR6-1008 Management

Contents and structure

Diversity is becoming increasingly relevant to working life, management of diversity represents therefore critical competence for today's and tomorrow's managers. The course embraces dimensions of management from both national and international perspective and the students gain a good insight into the new roles and responsibilities of current and future managers: On the one hand traditional activities including handling cultural diversity within the organization, on the other hand optimizing challenges and opportunities that may arise from external stakeholders across national cultures.

The perspective in this course is the managers' new roles regardless of industries and sectors, public or private. Theories and models used in the course are equally relevant to monocultural as well as multicultural situations and organisations.

Topics:

• Globalization
• Describe and compare national cultures and influence on management.
• Cultural intelligence
• Decision making and cultural diversity
• Interaction and communication with cultural diversity
• Negotiations and cultural diversity
• Motivation and leadership with cultural diversity
• Manage multicultural teams
• Management challenges and Sustainability
• Personal development goals througout the course: identify cultural differences, not judge other cultures!

Learning Outcome

Knowledge

• Knowledge about diversity is becoming increasingly relevant to working life: Discrimination, bullying, stress and sick leave on the one hand, and opportunities and success on the other are issues that must be addressed.
• The ability to manage diversity is therefore an important competence for today's and tomorrow's managers.
• The perspectives presented and discussed in this course are equally important for organizations operating on the home market as for global firms, as stakeholders in general and staff in particular are increasingly multicultural in many organizations. This demands deep knowledge about multicultural management.
• Knowledge about cultural synergy as an approch to management and how to achieve this is central.

Skills

• Identify cultural differences across nations.
• Identify possible consequences for management as a result of cultural diversity.
• Identify and evaluate different management styles for the organisation
• Planning interaction and communication with cultural diversity
• Planning and leading multicultural negotiations.
• Planning and leading teams with cultural diversity.

General competencies

• Develop awareness of and knowledge about the multitude of dimensions, roles and task related to management in organizations, multicultural as well as monocultural.
• Develop awareness of and knowledge about cultural differences and develop the ability to reflect upon consequences of cultural differences on organizational management and change management.
• Develop awerness of and stimulate reflections related to multicultural differences both on personal and professional level.
• Educational goals with a strong focus throughout the course: Students must be taught to identify cultural differences, not judge other cultures!

Entry requirements

OR6-1005 Strategy or equivilant.

Recommended previous knowledge

BØA 112 Organisasjon og leiing or equivilant.

Teaching methods

Lectures, seminar, assignments for team work/individual work.

Compulsory learning activities

• One mandatory written assignment
• Pass/fail

Assessment

Written school exam.

5 hours.

Note A-F

Examination support material

None

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Course reductions

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