Worldwide Management and Organizational Conduct

About this Course

Leaders in enterprise and non-profit organizations more and more work throughout nationwide borders and in multi-cultural environments. It’s possible you’ll work usually with prospects or suppliers overseas, or be a part of a globally dispersed cross-functional group, or an expatriate supervisor on a global project. It’s possible you’ll be a member of a worldwide on-line group, or a improvement support employee collaborating with a global community of accomplice organizations. In all of those contexts, your effectiveness as a frontrunner will depend on how properly you perceive and are in a position to handle particular person and collective behaviors in an intercultural context.

On this course – along with a group of Bocconi skilled school and Bocconi alumni – we’ll discover the idea and apply of worldwide and intercultural management and organizational conduct. Social science analysis has revealed systematic methods by which our conduct differs throughout cultural contexts – enabling us to extra successfully work throughout borders. Insights from psychology, neuroscience, sociology and anthropology, from communication research and from administration scholarship permit us to know what shapes particular person and group resolution making, what enhances or weakens group efficiency, and the way we are able to construct and use our social networks. And the shared sensible expertise of worldwide leaders permits us to determine concrete steps to enhancing intercultural management competence, and to be cognizant of widespread management challenges. Studying about organizational conduct supplies an important alternative to develop your management abilities and to replicate by yourself behavioral tendencies. How do you often make essential choices? What motivates you and the way do you strive motivating others? How efficiently do you leverage and combine numerous abilities and views in a group? Do you like skilled relationships with a close-knit group of trusted colleagues, or with a far-flung community of acquaintances from all walks of life? When you actually need to find out how organizations behave and take choices and on the identical time develop management abilities, then that is the course for you. We’re wanting ahead to welcoming you and supporting you on this journey of studying and discovery. COURSE SYLLABUS Week 1 – Management Acumen. Worldwide perspective on management, widespread traps & challenges, and alternatives of intercultural management. Week 2 – Navigating Tradition. Impression of cultural variations on organizations, decoding tradition, tradition classifications and stereotyping, growing intercultural intelligence. Week 3 – Communication. Communication and its influence on management identification and relationships, managing communication to enhance resolution making, steps for growing your intercultural communication abilities. Week 4 – Motivation. Views on particular person motivation, cultural variations in motivation, growing motivation and dedication in groups. Week 5 – Networking. Patterns of interpersonal relationships in/throughout organizations, strategically growing social networks and social capital, norms for networking throughout cultures. Week 6 – Battle. Efficient / faulty battle administration approaches, coping with moral dilemmas. Because of the participation of our alumni and of the Bocconi Alumni Affiliation, contributors can have sensible insights on worldwide management. RECOMMENDED BACKGROUND All are welcome! Some prior publicity to fundamental problems with organizational conduct (communication, resolution making, motivation, and so forth.) is beneficial, however not required.

SKILLS YOU WILL GAIN

• Social Community
• Management
• Administration
• Cross-Cultural Communication

Syllabus – What you’ll be taught from this course

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WEEK

1

3 hours to finish

LEADERSHIP ACUMEN

Within the first module we define the fundamentals of management and management improvement with a global mindset, exploring widespread traps & challenges, and alternatives of intercultural management.

WEEK

2

3 hours to finish

NAVIGATING CULTURE

On this second module we speak in regards to the influence of tradition and cultural variations on organizations, totally different views on analyzing and decoding tradition, and methods to develop intercultural intelligence.

WEEK

3

3 hours to finish

COMMUNICATING EFFECTIVELY

Virtually every part worldwide leaders do, they do by way of communication. In a global context, they typically encounter communication boundaries once they work together with followers, friends, and companions from different cultures. We discuss methods to encourage open, respectful, and productive conversations for bettering collaboration and collective decision-making. We may also carefully look at the function of communication for leaders’ identification and their relationships with others. Bocconi alumni who’ve accrued a few years of worldwide expertise share with us what they’ve realized about intercultural communication and methods to develop your communication abilities.

WEEK

4

3 hours to finish

MOTIVATING FOLLOWERS

Worldwide leaders must spur and channel the power, abilities, and dedication of their followers. To foster motivation leaders want to acknowledge individuals’s numerous wants and motives, cultural foundations of motivation, and social mechanisms that decide motivation in groups. We emphasize that there is no such thing as a “magic bullet” for motivation that works reliably and universally, we talk about motivation theories and frameworks that may drastically improve worldwide leaders’ means to adapt their motivation efforts in intercultural contexts – each for people and for groups.