Human Resources Strategies for International Manager

The module aims to develop your managerial insights and skills appropriate to the environments in which they are likely to work. There is an emphasis on developing your ability to analyse and evaluate key managerial concepts and to provide a conceptual framework for the analysis of managerial practice. Your presentation and group working skills will be developed and practiced in the residential and weekly class sessions.

Studying this module, you will learn and understand:

• The manager and the organisation. The role of the manager. The background of managers.  Identification of skills required by managers: objective setting, establishing priorities, delegation.

• Managerial Styles. Leadership Styles. The relationship between Management and Leadership Styles. Evaluation of power and authority in organisations.

• Societal Culture (with particular reference to the work of Hofstede, Hall & Laurent). The impact of societal culture on managerial behaviour.

• Motivation & Pay – what is the relationship between the two? Should assumptions about motivation alter from one culture to another?

• Key Issues in Performance Management – the design and operation of appraisal schemes. Diagnosis of conflict between managerial & employee objectives.

• Recruitment and Selection. The systematic approach to selection. Skills of interviewing.

• Training & Development in the context of overseas assignments. How do and should organisations prepare employees to go overseas?

• Working in groups or teams: skills needed; implications of working in multicultural teams.

• Skills of communication and presentation.

• Conflict in organisations. Managing conflict and handling change