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Your Tutor (me)
Nathan Eva
– PhD / B.Bus (Hons) / B.A
> Management / Politics / Drama
– Teaching
> Ethics (Masters) / Leadership (3rd) / Organisational Change (3rd) / International
Management (3rd) / Managerial Communication (1st) / Intro to Management (1st)
– Consulting
> Politics / Non-for-Profit / Youth Sector / Music Sector
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International Management
• Compulsory readings each week
• One recommended reading per week
• Lectures are very important for this subject
• Tutorials will be the practical implementation of what
you learnt in the lecture
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International Management
• The subject seems easy
• The presentations are easy
> If you actually answer the question
• The essay is not easy
• The exam should be easy, yet somehow people
always make it harder than it is
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Assignment 1
• International Negotiation
• Due week 6 on the Friday 5pm - Moodle
• Worth 30%
• 2,000 – 2,500 words
• 15 Journal Articles
(you can’t hand it in without 15 journal articles)
• APA Referencing
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Assignment 2
• Group Assignment
• Weekly Presentation
• Week 3 - 11
• Worth 30%
• 30 minute presentation 10 minute question time
• 2 page write up (roughly) and slides
> This is worth 10% of the mark – please make it good
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Assignment 2
• Intro and outline (10%)
> Very clear this is who we are this is what we will cover, this is why it is important
• Identification of the issues and depth of analysis (30%)
> The theory, cultural examples, business examples?
• Verbal Presentation Skills and the clarity of presentation (20%)
• Overall stimulation of class participation and handling of questions
(10%)
> Class activity? 30 minutes is a long time. Have questions planted in the audience
• Slide handout to class, two page write up with references (20%)
> It’s worth 20% so spend some time on it please
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Getting to Know You
• Grad Roles are on the table
> Yes I know they are over but internships?
• Interviews are the make or break
• You get a chance to participate in mock interviews
and interview potential teammates / future
partner
• Get to know your class mates
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Class Activity
• Divide into same-country members
• Identify recent developments in that country’s
political, economic, legal and cultural
environments
• What are the implications for international managers
in that country as a result of that development
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Question for You
• How can we (Mary and I) help you do better?
• What material can we provide online?
• How can we assist with peer-assisted learning?
• What would you like to see?
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Next Week
• Bring your textbooks please
• I’m away at a conference at Disneyland
• Ryan is subbing in.
• He knows lots about international business and red
wine
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Week 1 Lecture
• Identify the key issues that differentiate international
management from international business.
• Discuss the importance of international management in
today’s global organisations.
• Compare and contrast international and domestic
organisations.
• Discuss the contingency role of the international manager.
• What is meant by the terms Parochialism and Ethnocentrism.
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Week 2 Lecture
• Define culture. What are cultural values, beliefs and
norms? Provide examples.
• What are Hofstede’s five (5) cultural dimensions?
Provide examples to demonstrate.
• What are Trompanaar’s cultural dimensions?
Provide examples to demonstrate.
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Week 2 Lecture
• Go to it
• Seriously, it is this afternoon and it will form the
basis of everything we do
• Do it….peer pressure
