Duration
30h Th
Number of credits
| Master in human resources management (120 ECTS) | 3 crédits |
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the second semester
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit 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 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
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.
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)
2nd session assessment : idem
prolonged 2nd session assessment : idem
Asessment criteria
- knowledge
- 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
Contacts
Jocelyne.Robert@ulg.ac.be
04 232 72 15
Items online
Gestion des cadres en contexte international
Les transparents du cours sont sur le site HEC-Ecole de gestion de l'Université de Liège