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<title>Cross-Cultural Management and Leadership</title>
<cid>MAIM-165</cid>
<sapsubmodule>P420-0269, P420-0270</sapsubmodule>
<bkey>imm3</bkey>
<ctypes>
<hours>2</hours>
<type>V</type>
</ctypes>
<cp>3</cp>
<semester>1</semester>
<mandatory>no</mandatory>
<language>English</language>
<exam>written examination + presentation</exam>
<curriculum>
<curriculum_entry>
<cid>MAIM-165</cid>
<branch>International Management</branch>
<semester>1</semester>
<mandatory_tag>optional course</mandatory_tag>
</curriculum_entry>
</curriculum>
<workload>
30 class hours (= 22.5 clock hours) over a 15-week period.The total student study time is 90 hours (equivalent to 3 ECTS credits).There are therefore 67.5 hours available for class preparation and follow-up work and exam preparation.</workload>
<prerequisites>
</prerequisites>
<prerequisitesfor>
</prerequisitesfor>
<convenor>Prof. Dr. Stefanie Jensen</convenor>
<convenor-person-key>sje</convenor-person-key>
<lecturers>
<lecturer>Prof. Dr. Stefanie Jensen</lecturer>
<lecturer-person-key>sje</lecturer-person-key>
</lecturers>
<objectives>After successfully completing this module the student should be able to …
• explain the content and purpose of international human resource management
• explain and reflect on compensation models, employee selection and employee deployment in a global environment
• explain the specifics of international human resources management in practice.
• name and evaluate cultural influences on human resources management.
• explain the principles and fields of application of cultural diversity.
• identify the tools used for personnel development and assess their application and potential.
• form and justify an opinion about selected topics from the field of international human resource management. 
(• successfully work within a work group towards a specific goal within a specific timeframe. This comprises literature research, the independent distribution of work packages within the group, their respective completion by the individual group members and the combination of these to form a group effort. This also includes solving possible conflicts within the group resp. escalating them to the lecturer.)
</objectives>
<content>• Background, purpose and organization of human resource strategies in multinational companies
• Compensation, planning and implementation of personnel deployment
• Human resources development in multinational companies
• Cultural behavioral patterns and their effect on international human resource work
• Intercultural cooperation in mixed teams
• Diversity management 
</content>
<media>Lecture, group work, case studies and structured discussions</media>
<literature>in the newest edition: 
•Briscoe/Schuler, International Human Resource Management, London.
•Dowling/Festing/Engle, International Human Resource Management:  managing people in a multinational context, Andover. 
•Mendenhall/Oddou, Readings and Cases in IHRM, Cincinnati.
•Hall/Hall, Understanding cultural differences, Boston.
•Hofstede, Culture´s consequences, comparing values, behaviors, institutions, and organizations across 
 nations, Thousand Oaks. 
•Scholz/Böhm, Human Resource Management in Europe –Comparative analysis and 
 contextual understanding, Routledge.

Current expert articles in English-language business magazines such as the Harvard Business Review
</literature>
<offered>
</offered>
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