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MGF5310

Faculty of Business and Economics

18 September 2017 22 November 2024

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This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2016 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.

Monash University

6 points, SCA Band 3, 0.125 EFTSL

Postgraduate - Unit

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Faculty

Business and Economics

Organisational Unit

Department of Management

Coordinator(s)

Associate Professor Ramanie Samaratunge (First semester); Professor Cherrie Zhu (Second semester)

Offered

Caulfield

  • First semester 2016 (Day)
  • Second semester 2016 (Evening)

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:

  1. evaluate the changing nature of international management process
  2. relate management theory to varying and different cultures
  3. describe and explain the complex challenges facing business and managers in a cross-cultural setting
  4. critically compare and contrast a range of cross-cultural variables in the international business management environment and understand their impact on international management.

Assessment

Within semester assessment: 60%
Examination: 40%

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.

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Chief examiner(s)

Associate Professor Ramanie Samaratunge (First semester)
Professor Cherrie Zhu (Second semester)

Prohibitions

MGX5310