Master
2021/2022
Global Management and Asian Values
Category 'Best Course for Career Development'
Category 'Best Course for Broadening Horizons and Diversity of Knowledge and Skills'
Category 'Best Course for New Knowledge and Skills'
Type:
Compulsory course
Area of studies:
Foreign Regional Studies
Delivered by:
Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs
When:
1 year, 1, 2 module
Mode of studies:
offline
Open to:
students of one campus
Instructors:
Sergei Shaposhnikov
Master’s programme:
Экономика, политика и бизнес в Азии
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
5
Contact hours:
60
Course Syllabus
Abstract
The Global Management and Asian Values course focuses on opportunities and challenges created by globalization. Special attention is placed upon different tools and analytic competences available to the different specialized managerial roles when competing internationally. With integrated real-world examples, research, and practical applications, students understand how to adjust, adapt, and navigate the changing global business landscape and respond to global challenges-making it a market-leader. It examines cross-cultural and management issues related to management in an international marketplace with emphasis on Asian countries. The Asian managerial practices and systems (i.e., China, Japan, and South Korea) have been influenced to different degrees by Confucianism and have been developed under very different social and historical environments. Although these societies share a common East Asian culture with each other, each of them maintains a unique business culture. Studying and comparing cultural value systems and management among the Asian societies will expand the knowledge base of students and develop their critical thinking because the development of management systems of a country can be affected by its historical and political background, people’s cultural values as well as the globalization of management systems. The study of different cultural values and management systems shall also enhance students’ understanding of their own business culture and develop sensitivity toward and an appreciation of diversity in today’s globalized business environments.
Learning Objectives
- The central objective of this course is to explore the unique opportunities and problems that confront international managers as they navigate the company through the extremely complex and ever-changing global economic, political, legal, technological and cultural environment. This course will particularly focus on people, values and culture in Asia. As a result of undertaking this study you will be better equipped to undertake an international career and to work within organizations with a culturally diverse workforce.
Expected Learning Outcomes
- A disposition to consider ethical and social responsibility issues in the development and implementation of an international management strategy in Asia;
- An ability to invoke different management theories (e.g., resource-based view, stakeholder theory, and institutional theory) to understand what is behind different firm performances around the world;
- An ability to recognize the similarities and differences reflected in cultural/societal values and management systems between Asia and Russia;
- An awareness of and interest in how institutions—formal and informal ones—impact business decisions;
- An enhanced understanding of what determines the success and failure of companies around the globe and in Asia;
- An in-depth knowledge of analytical frameworks used in the screening of national markets (defining the key factors in the firm’s internationalization process by evaluating the international business environment, stressing particularly the economic and cultural dimensions);
- An understanding of the cultural/societal values (i.e. Confucian values) and management systems of China, Japan and South Korea;
- An understanding of the impact of cultural/societal values on managerial practices in Asia;
- Demonstrate critical writing and presentation skills.
Course Contents
- Environmental Foundation- Globalization and International Linkages; the Political, Legal, and Technological Environment; Ethics, Social Responsibility, and Sustainability.
- The Role of Culture- the Meanings and Dimensions of Culture; Managing Across Cultures; Organizational Cultures and Diversity; Cross-Cultural and Negotiation
- Global Strategic Management- Strategy Formulation and Implementation; Entry Strategies and Organizational Structures; Managing Political Risk, Government Relations, and Alliances; Management Decision and Control
- Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management- Motivation across Cultures; Leadership across Cultures; Human Resource Selection and Development across Cultures
- Asian Values- Basic Economic History;; Cultural/Societal Values; Confucianism; Managerial Practices and Systems
Assessment Elements
- Attendance
- Discussion participationto be tracked in the Microsoft Teams platform
- Essaysa written paper to be sent by email
- Group projectstudents submit their reports (by email) and make puplic presentation via the Microsoft Teams platform
- Final examwill be done via the Microsoft Teams platform
Interim Assessment
- 2021/2022 2nd module0.2 * Group project + 0.4 * Final exam + 0.2 * Essays + 0.1 * Attendance + 0.1 * Discussion participation
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- Bartlett, C. A., & Ghoshal, S. (1998). Managing Across Borders : The Transnational Solution: Vol. 2nd ed. Harvard Business School Press.
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- Abdul-Rahman, S., & Rowley, C. (2008). The Changing Face of Management in South East Asia. Routledge.
- Chang, C., & Chang, N. J. (1994). The Korean Management System: Cultural, Political, Economic Foundations : Cultural, Political, Economic Foundations. Praeger.
- Ghemawat, P. (2007). Redefining Global Strategy : Crossing Borders in a World Where Differences Still Matter. Harvard Business Review Press.
- Ghemawat, P. (2011). World 3.0 : Global Prosperity and How to Achieve It. Harvard Business Review Press.
- Jackson, K., & Tomioka, M. (2004). The Changing Face of Japanese Management. London: Routledge. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=105973
- John H. Dunning, & Sarianna M. Lundan. (2008). Multinational Enterprises and the Global Economy, Second Edition. Edward Elgar Publishing. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsrep&AN=edsrep.b.elg.eebook.3215
- Jones, G. (2004). Multinationals and Global Capitalism: From the Nineteenth to the Twenty First Century. Oxford University Press.
- Peng, M. W. (2012). Global business. South-Western.
- Verbeke, A. (2009). International Business Strategy : Rethinking the Foundations of Global Corporate Success. Cambridge eText.