Bachelor
2024/2025
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
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
4
Course Syllabus
Abstract
The "Profession of a Manager in the Modern World" seminar is designed to provide participants with a comprehensive understanding of the varied roles and responsibilities involved in management. This course aims to equip aspiring managers with the insights and skills necessary to navigate the complexities and dynamic nature of the modern international business environment. The course combines insight content from university educators, motivating master-classes from successful business representatives and peer-to-peer sharing.
Learning Objectives
- The aim of this seminar is to provide participants with a profound understanding of the multifaceted role of a manager in today's dynamic business landscape. By covering essential managerial skills, contemporary practices, technological advancements, and ethical considerations, the seminar intends to empower aspiring managers.
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.
- able to apply essential frameworks, analytical skills, problem-solving abilities, and communication expertise necessary for devising strategic solutions to complex business challenges.
Course Contents
- Topic 1. Introduction to the career guidance seminar «Managerial profession in the modern world».
- Topic 2. Current trends in professional management.
- Topic 9. Career development and market for managerial personnel.
- Topic 11. Successful career in various functional fields of management.
- Topic 5. Ethics and Responsibility in International Business
- Topic 3. Managerial Consulting as a Career Track
- Topic 4. International Negotiations
- Topic 6. Self-Development for Successful Career
- Topic 7: Recent trends in International Business: Russian companies under Sanctions
- Topic 8. Digitalization in International Business
- Topic 10. Сontext Pecularities in IB
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