Bachelor 2022/2023

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 Exam
  Individual, in-class, online in SmartLMS, closed-book. Duration: 80 min.

Interim Assessment

• 2022/2023 2nd module
  0.2 * Midterm test + 0.5 * Final Exam + 0.3 * Essay

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

Authors

• LEEVIK YULIYA SERGEEVNA