Intercultural Management 20-KUDU-MA-ICM

(po angielsku) This lecture will offer not only basic concepts of intercultural management but also will try to describe management as a process fundamentally intercultural. Managing across cultures is a natural consequence of the internationalization of today’s business but at the same time it is an opportunity to broaden the picture and to see management as a phenomenon from the very beginning saturated by the elements borrowed from many different cultures and discourses. This intercultural dimension do not become visible from a narrow perspective of a specific approach to HRM and business communication (traditional understanding of intercultural management) because it is present and should be traced in all managerial functions. Also the organizations – despite the fact that most of organizational theories present them as mono-cultural – posses and show that dimension. So the lecture would invite students to view intercultural management not only as a process of “managing across cultures” (which sounds today more like “colonizing the differences” and implies the existence of a centre and peripheries) but rather as the joint effort of many cultures. Taylorism which marks the ascent of modern understanding of management implied standardization of products and their parts as well as subordination of managers’ and workers’ minds. Today’s global business requires more humanistic approach which should bring to the fore the multitude of perspectives and the need of constant “dialogue”. In other words, before constructing any factory, owners and managers – through the market research and other analyses – should inquire into the wants and needs of potential customers and, like anthropologists, should be ready to interpret many different

(po angielsku) The course is based on the distributed hand-outs, dvd materials presented in the classroom and Internet sources.

Kulturoznawstwo - komunikacja międzykulturowa. Studia w języku angielskim

(po angielsku) . Teaching and learning methods and activities to enable students to achieve the intended course learning outcomes (please indicate the appropriate methods and activities with a tick and/or suggest different methods) Teaching and learning methods and activities X Lecture with a multimedia presentation x Interactive lecture x Problem – based lecture Discussions x Text-based work Case study work x Problem-based learning Educational simulation/game Task – solving learning (eg. calculation, artistic, practical tasks) Experiential work Laboratory work Scientific inquiry method Workshop method Project work Demonstration and observation Sound and/or video demonstration x Creative methods (eg. brainstorming, SWOT analysis, decision tree method, snowball technique, concept maps) Group work Other (please specify) - …

(po angielsku) No online learning

(po angielsku) Student workload and ECTS credits Activity types Mean number of hours spent on each activity type Contact hours with the teacher as specified in the study programme 30 Independent study* Preparation for classes Reading for classes 30 Essay / report / presentation / demonstration preparation, etc. 60 Project preparation Term paper preparation Exam preparation Other (please specify) - … Total hours Total ECTS credits for the course 4 * please indicate the appropriate activity types and/or suggest different activities

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(po angielsku) • General knowledge on the BA level • Readiness to participate in class discussion • Good command of English

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