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Career Guidance Seminar "Managerial profession in the modern world"
Type:
Compulsory course (International Business)
Area of studies:
Management
Delivered by:
Department of Strategic and International Management
Where:
Graduate School of Business
When:
1 year, 1, 2 module
Mode of studies:
offline
Open to:
students of one campus
Instructors:
Nataliya Alyamovskaya,
Elena Dimova,
Alexander Dynin,
Olga Filatova,
Alexander Gabrielov,
Ekaterina Ivanova,
Stanislav Kiselev,
Dmitrii Knatko,
Yulia Leevik,
Vera Alexandrovna Rebiazina,
Sergei Shaposhnikov,
Ekaterina Shugaleeva,
Natalya Shumkova
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
4
Contact hours:
40
Course Syllabus
Abstract
This discipline builds up students' basic knowledge and skills for career as a professional manager within the framework of the bachelor's program in the training direction 38.03.02 "Management". The discipline provides for: (a) the study of fundamental and new requirements for managerial competencies in conditions of the Fourth Industrial Revolution; (b) conducting practical classes/ master classes by managers of leading Russian and international companies; (c) testing by DISC methodology to identify the type of personality/behavior, followed by assigning directions for successful self-development in profession.
Learning Objectives
- Objectives of the discipline: 1. Introducing students to the future profession. 2. Preparing to build up a career path. 3. Identifying self-development directions in profession based on identification of personality/behavior type.
Expected Learning Outcomes
- Сomprehend the history of emergence and evolution of managerial profession.
- Able to identify main behavioral types of personalities that are relevant in business management.
- Have knowledge about basic concepts of management activities.
- Can compare new trends in managerial profession development with traditional approaches.
- Able to explain levels and functional areas of management in organization.
- Can apply personalities typology for the analysis of successful managerial careers and directions for self-development.
- Understand general characteristics and main differences of management in three sectors of economy.
- Perceive basic and new requirements for managerial competencies in the context of Fourth Industrial Revolution.
Course Contents
- Topic 1. Introduction to the career guidance seminar «Managerial profession in the modern world».
- Topic 2. Current trends in professional management.
- Topic 3. Career development and market for managerial personnel.
- Topic 4. Managerial profession and typology of personalities.
- Topic 5. Basic concepts of entrepreneurial activity.
- Topic 6. Managerial profession in international business.
- Topic 7. Introduction to profession in the functional areas of management.
Assessment Elements
- Midterm test
- Essay
- Final ExamIndividual, in-class, online in SmartLMS, closed-book. Duration: 80 min.
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- Adizes, I. (1996). The 10 stages of corporate life cycles. Inc, 18(14), 95. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=f5h&AN=9610307694
- Complex approach on multicultural teams management & leadership. (2019). https://doi.org/10.2478/jesr-2019-0008
- Nawaz, M., Khan, R. M., Bhatti, G. A., Tahir, A., & Namatullah, A. (2019). Accomplishment of goal levels in multi team systems: Role of leadership skills and multicultural teams. https://doi.org/10.17722/ijme.v12i2.522.g219
- Neufeind, M., O’Reilly, J., & Ranft, F. (2018). Work in the Digital Age : Challenges of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Policy Network.
- Schwab, K. (2017). The Fourth Industrial Revolution: its meaning and how to respond. Logistics & Transport Focus, 19(2), 40–41. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=bsu&AN=121034925
- Schwab, K., & Davis, N. (2018). Shaping the Future of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (Vol. First American edition). New York: Currency. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1735840
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- Bazerman, M. H. (2020). A New Model for Ethical Leadership. Harvard Business Review, 98(5), 90–97.
- Boni, A. A., & Sammut, S. M. (2019). “The Good, the Bad, the Ugly”: Leadership Lessons From two Companies - Amgen and Theranos. Journal of Commercial Biotechnology, 24(4), 67–73. https://doi.org/10.5912/jcb918
- Impact of Network Globalization and Manufacturing Network Integration on Global Supply Chain Performance: Mediating Role of Sustainability. (2019). Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.42B07C32
- Kets De Vries, M. F. R. (2000). A Journey into the “Wild East”: Leadership Style and Organizational Practices in Russia. Organizational Dynamics, 28(4), 67–81. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0090-2616(00)00004-8
- Kressel, H., & Lento, T. V. (2012). Entrepreneurship in the Global Economy : Engine for Economic Growth. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=465765
- Matteo Cristofaro, & Pier Luigi Giardino. (2020). Core Self-Evaluations, Self-Leadership, and the Self-Serving Bias in Managerial Decision Making: A Laboratory Experiment. Administrative Sciences, 10(64), 64. https://doi.org/10.3390/admsci10030064
- The turn from just-in-time to just-in-case globalization in and after times of COVID-19 an essay on the risk re-appraisal of borders and buffers. (2020). Social Sciences & Humanities Open, 2(1), 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssaho.2020.100034