Duration
30h Th
Number of credits
| Extra courses intended for exchange students (Erasmus, ...) | 5 crédits |
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
English language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
This course is cancelled in 2016-2017.
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
The number of students is limited at 25 students
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
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
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
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
Recommended or required readings
Power point on the web site
Readings book
Assessment methods and criteria
1st session assessment : presentation of a individual and group work project (report on seminars) Oral presentation
2nd session assessment : idem
prolonged 2nd session assessment : idem
Asessment criteria
- knowledge
- oral and writing expression
- teamwork
- auto-analysis of the learnings, knowledge, knowhow,attitudes
- to present and to analyse scientific article, links with the course
Work placement(s)
Organizational remarks
This course is cancelled in 2016-2017.
Contacts
Jocelyne.Robert@ulg.ac.be
04 232 72 15