Postgraduate - UnitMGS5310 - International management

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2015 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

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6 points, SCA Band 3, 0.125 EFTSL

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Level	Postgraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Business and Economics
Organisational Unit	Department of Management
Offered	South Africa First semester 2015 (Day) South Africa Second semester 2015 (On-campus block of classes) South Africa Second semester 2015 (Day) South Africa Second semester 2015 (Evening)
Coordinator(s)	Professor Dina Burger

Synopsis

International strategic management; ethics and social responsibility, communication and interpersonal relations; employee attitudes and motivation; cross-cultural leadership; control and conflict issues, international human resource management and comparative industrial relations.

Outcomes

The learning goals associated with this unit are to:

evaluate the changing nature of international management processes
relate management theory to varying and different cultures in the Southern African context
describe and explain the complex challenges facing business and managers in a cross-cultural setting
critically compare and contrast a range of cross-cultural variables in the international business management environment and explain their impact on international management.

Assessment

Within semester assessment: 50%
Examination: 50%

Workload requirements

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. Independent study may include associated readings, assessment and preparation for scheduled activities. The unit requires on average three/four hours of scheduled activities per week. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.

Chief examiner(s)

Professor Dina Burger

Prohibitions

MGX5310 and MGM5310