GRHO0008-5 : Managing senior staff and teams in an international context

University of Liege | Version française

Academic year 2014-2015

Value date : 12/05/2015

GRHO0008-5

Managing senior staff and teams in an international context

Duration :

30h Th

Number of credits :

Master in Human Resources Management, Professional Focus, 1st year		3

Lecturer :

Jocelyne Robert

Language(s) of instruction :

French language

Organisation and examination :

Teaching in the second semester

Course contents :

To make students aware of the international dimension of management. To show them how the company manages its executive staff in an international context and organize the teams. To show them how to prepare themselves to the role of international executives.
1. The problem of managing international executives. Why introduce a mobility of executives in an international company ? How to organize that mobility ? The expatriation issue (accommodation, acclimation, family life,...). The life of the international executive. Relations with the head office. Managing expatriations from different points of view: salary, social legislation & taxes. 2. The intercultural dimension of international management: how can the executive define another culture ? How to adapt ? How to behave in terms of business negotiation, relations with the local staff, & leadership ? How to resolve conflicts? 3. Executive management, a tool for Human Resources Management in an international context. Recruitment issue (which profile of international executive should be recruited and how ?). Training issue, to ensure the corporate identity of the company at the international level. International Communication issue ("Think globally, act locally").
4.The dynamic of teams, their rules for HR
5. How to define and organize one international project?
6 Importance of Etics

Learning outcomes of the course :

To know and to understand the problem of managing international executives, the intercultural dimension of international management:, the rule of executive management for Human Resources Management in an international context, the dynamic of teams, their rules for HR
To know the politics ans strategy to adopt in the analysis of the organizations
Analyse different situations of international mobility, the advantages and desadvantages, the solutions to adopt
Apply principles of intercultural communication, négociation, international team management
Auto-analysis of professionnel project at the international level, to evaluate threat and weakness
Research of one scientific article, analysis, links with the course and analysis of the situation
Writing and oral presentation
Teamwork
Auo-analysis of the learnings

This course contributes to the following Intended Learning Outcomes :

ILO-2 : Gaining the knowledge and understanding of one of the proposed fields of concentration or to gain deep knowledge in the field of the management being already specialized thru a first University Master Degree.

ILO-4 : To acquire the capacity to research autonomously and methodically the information needed to solve a complex, transversal management problem.

ILO-5 : Integrate autonomously researched information, tools, knowledge and context to build and propose, either individually or as part of a team, original, creative and viable solutions to concrete complex management problems, whether real or simulated, taking into account, when necessary, the human, social and legal context.

ILO-11 : Creative conception of solutions.

ILO-12 : Professional capacity for oral communication.

ILO-13 : Professional capacity for written communication.

ILO-14 : Faced with a management problem, suggesting solutions that are ethical and socially responsible and that respect the principles of good governance.

Prerequisites and co-requisites/ Recommended optional programme components :

Planned learning activities and teaching methods :

Presentation, interactives methodes, collaboratives methods
Presentation of the theories, groupworks, presentation of the groupworks, conferences, roleplay
Role play (exploration, production)
Teamwork
Presentation of international Executives manager
Case studies analysis
Writing report

Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :

face-to-face