WIW17501 – Managing Intercultural Collaboration

Module
Managing Intercultural Collaboration
Managing Intercultural Collaboration
Module number
WIW17501
Version: 1
Faculty
Business Administration
Level
Bachelor
Duration
1 Semester
Semester
Summer semester
Module supervisor

Prof. Dr. Matthias Richter
M.Richter(at)fh-zwickau.de

Prof. Dr. Uta Kremer
uta.kremer(at)fh-zwickau.de

Lecturer(s)

Prof. Dr. Uta Kremer
uta.kremer(at)fh-zwickau.de

Course language(s)

English
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ECTS credits

5.00 credits

Workload

150 hours

Courses

4.00 SCH (4.00 SCH Lecture with integrated exercise / seminar-lecture)

Self-study time

90.00 hours
90.00 hours Self-study - Managing Intercultural Collaboration

Pre-examination(s)

Gruppenarbeit
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Examination(s)

alternative Prüfungsleistung - Belegarbeit und Präsentation
Module examination | Examination time: 30 min | Weighting: 100%
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Media type
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Instruction content/structure
  • Business Culture, general & specific - Business Communication:
  • Teams and Leadership
  • Intercultural Marketing
  • Intercultural Presentations
  • Intercultural Managemen
  • Intercultural Negotiations
  • Intercultural Neuroscience
  • Application Competencies
  • Extended Case Studies

The module comprises lectures, discussions, exercises/ case-studies, assignments, and self-study.

Qualification objectives

The course aims at conveying basic structures of intercultural business communication as main impact on intercultural management & collaboration. Students gain competencies both in analyzing intercultural settings, and managing in culturally different operating contexts. In an acacemic they will analyze cultural backgrounds to business contexts and the success of international companies which they will present orally in the plenum to share and discuss these insights. 

Special admission requirements

keine

Recommended prerequisites
No information
Continuation options
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Literature
  • Berardo, Kate (latest edition): Building Cultural Competence
  • Bolten, Jürgen: latest editions
  • Hall, Tromenaars, Lewis, Adler – standard works
  • Hofstede, Geert: latest editions/internet references
  • Meyer, Erin (2015/ latest edition): The Culture Map
  • Schmidt, Patrick: latest editions
  • Shirts, Gary (latest edition): BafaBafa
  • Usunier (latest edition): Marketing Across Cultures
  • and others
Notes
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