2020-2021 / GRHO0008-5

Managing senior staff and teams in an international context

Duration

30h Th

Number of credits

 Master in human resources management (120 ECTS)4 crédits 
 Master in human resources management (120 ECTS)3 crédits 
 Extra courses intended for exchange students (Erasmus, ...) (Faculté des Sciences sociales)4 crédits 

Lecturer

Jocelyne Robert

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

Teaching in the first semester, review in January

Schedule

Schedule online

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  presentation (if possible)
ing 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.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

 

Presentation of the theories, 
Presentation of international Executives manager
Case studies analysis, lectures of scientific articles
Writing report

Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)

Enseignement et suivi à distance

Organisational adjustments related to the current health context

Individual report or group report with individual part
No difference between the evaluation in yellow code or in orange code.
 
Written report

Recommended or required readings

Power point on the web site

Assessment methods and criteria

Below you will find information on the evaluation methods planned for in-person and remote exams as well as those planned for hybrid sessions. Depending on how the health crisis evolves, the chosen method will be communicated to you no later than one month before the start of the exam session.

Any session :

- In-person

written exam ( open-ended questions )

- Remote

written work

- If evaluation in "hybrid"

preferred remote


Additional information:

1st session assessment : presentation d'un rapport de seminaire  2nd session assessment : idem prolonged 2nd session assessment : idem


Asessment criteria
- knowledge
- auto-analysis of the learnings, knowledge, knowhow,attitudes
- to present and to analyse scientific article, links with the course

Work placement(s)

Organizational remarks

Organizational information on lola (http://lola.hec.ulg.ac.be) et myulg

Contacts

Jocelyne.Robert@uliege.be

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