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2016/2017  KAN-CCMVI2048U  Organization: Team Dynamics in Multinational Corporations

English Title
Organization: Team Dynamics in Multinational Corporations

Course information
Language English
Course ECTS 7.5 ECTS
Type Elective
Level Full Degree Master
Duration Summer
Start time of the course Summer
Timetable Course schedule will be posted at calendar.cbs.dk
Max. participants 80
Study board
Study Board for MSc in Economics and Business Administration
Course coordinator
  • Course instructor - Lisbeth Clausen, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Intercultural Communication and Management at CBS, lc.ikl@cbs.dk
    Sven Bislev - Department of Intercultural Communication and Management (ICM)
In case of any academic questions related to the course, please contact the course instructor or the academic director, Sven Bislev at sb.ikl@cbs.dk
Main academic disciplines
  • Globalization and international business
  • Intercultural studies
  • Organization
Last updated on 23/01/2017
Learning objectives
To achieve the grade 12, students should meet the following learning objectives with no or only minor mistakes or errors:
  • Identify and unfold the challenges of global business managers in multinational corporations
  • Manage high performing multicultural and diverse teams, while reflecting on own international and team management experience
  • Define and solve a research question/problem concerning team collaboration and task completion in multinational corporations
  • Systematically select and apply theories and models from the fields of organization, communication and competence to solve the identified problem
  • Build an appropriate theoretical framework of models from the course to analyze the problem(s)
  • Offer practical solutions to enhance team collaboration and performance in the case(s)
Course prerequisites
Basic organization / organizational behavior / management.
Examination
Organization: Team dynamics in Multinational Corporations:
Exam ECTS 7.5
Examination form Home assignment - written product
Individual or group exam Individual exam
Size of written product Max. 10 pages
Assignment type Written assignment
Duration 72 hours to prepare
Grading scale 7-step scale
Examiner(s) One internal examiner
Exam period Summer, Ordinary exam: End of July - beginning of August 2017.

Retake exam: End of September - beginning of October 2017.

3rd attempt (2nd retake) exam: End November - beginning of December 2017.

Exam schedule is available on http://www.cbs.dk/summer http:/​/​www.cbs.dk/​uddannelse/​summer-university-programme/​exam
Make-up exam/re-exam
Same examination form as the ordinary exam
Home project assignment, new exam question
Course content and structure

The aim of the course is to provide students with knowledge of the dynamics of high performing global teams drawing on organization, communication and competence theories. During the course students will become familiar with organization, communication and competence theories and methods to understand and analyze team collaboration in multinational corporations. Each session will focus on the application of a specific model for analysis in relation to a corporate case. Throughout the course students will also be challenged to apply and reflect on personal international experience and knowledge about team work.

 

Class 1: Global business management - corporate teams
Class 2: Communication in high performing teams
Class 3: Corporate culture   
Class 4: Diversity and team dynamics
Class 5: Leadership and change
Class 6: Team organization    
Feedback session: Corporate case presentation - team dynamics I
Class 7: Global mindset   
Class 8: Cultural intelligence  
Class 9: Innovation and knowledge sharing in teams
Class 10: Global organizational design (HQ-subsidiary)  
Class 11: Conflict and Power    
Teaching methods
Students will be divided into working groups during the introductory lecture to do weekly case work.
The course will be a combination of classroom teaching, discussions and group work based on the course readings and corporate case(s) book. Group workshops and mini-assignments will follow in each lecture. In the case workshops students are expected to contribute creatively and actively and to present theoretical models and case assignments.
Speaker(s ) will be invited to talk about global business management ’in action’. This is to present students with a practical view of on intercultural business management. The speakers represent multinational corporations. The speaker(s) will share their professional practices and strategies in organizing markets and stakeholders including employees, consumers, alliances, and their subsidiary teams.
Student workload
Preliminary assignment 10 hours
Classroom attendance 33 hours
Preparation 144 hours
Feedback activity 7 hours
Examination 12 hours
Further Information

Preliminary Assignment: To help students get maximum value from ISUP courses, instructors provide a reading or a small number of readings or video clips to be read or viewed before the start of classes with a related task scheduled for class 1 in order to 'jump-start' the learning process.

 

Feedback Activity: A feedback activity defined by the course instructor will take place approx. half-way through the course.

 

Course timetable is available on http://www.cbs.dk/uddannelse/summer-university-programme/courses
Expected literature

CASE BOOK: Clausen, Lisbeth (2015) Team dynamics and diversity: Japanese corporate experiences. Copenhagen: Copenhagen Business School Press. pp. 250

NOTE: students will purchase ONE case from the above case book as assigned in the course.

LINK TBA

http://www.cbspress.dk/Visning-af-titel.848.0.html?&cHash=1dfd1b1edb6671305a3cd8e31e886bb0&ean=9788763003230

 

 

- Weekly readings will be uploaded on my.cbs LEARN.
Last updated on 23/01/2017