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NBS8061 Managing Across Cultures 2007/08 Module Leader: Dr. Charlie Zhao Room 19, 2nd floor Armstrong Building ukassignment@ Blackboard e-learning system: Copies of each session’s lecture notes and supporting materials will be placed on the Blackboard e-learning environment (http://bb.ncl.ac.uk/ ) Summary Timetable Week Lecture IBM: 9am-12pm 1 What is Culture: Perspectives and Definitions Thursday 4 Oct 2 Communication and Co-operation in Multi-cultural Teams Thursday 11 Oct 3 Culture and Management Paradigms Thursday 18 Oct 4 Exploring Dimensions of Culture and Management Thursday 25 Oct 5 Culture, Language and Communication Thursday 1 November 6 Culture, Managerial Values and Cross-Cultural Managers Thursday 8 November 7 Culture, Social Values and Management Thursday 15 November 8 Course Review, Reflections on Group Processes and Assignment Clinic Thursday 22 November Module Outline Course information notes The notes for a related module state that “international business and global concerns dominate contemporary management thinking in enterprises of all kinds”. This forms the backdrop to the module, which will examine the importance of cultural differences as an influence on management thinking and practice. Aims and Objectives Aims To provide an overview of cross-cultural studies in social science and their relevance to business and management; To enable some basic analysis of cross-cultural issues and problems; To facilitate the understanding of cross-cultural behaviour at individual, group and organizational levels in work and consumer contexts; To encourage students to critically analyze assumptions about universal management practice Intended Learning Outcomes: By the end of the course, you should be able to: Understand issues in international managerial psychology; Understand theories of interpersonal perceptions, cross-cultural psychology and related issues; Analyze and diagnose specified problems, situations perspec