Hamdard University Bangladesh
Managing in Globalization
Course Code: MGT 413
Credit Hour: 3
Course Group: Specialization Course: Management
Introduction: Definition- forms- environment, impact of MNCs on host countries- Globalization- Localization and international management.
International Strategic Management: Definition, components, developing strategies, levels, foreign market analysis.
Organization Design for international management: Evolution of organization structure, types of global organization design, issues, globalization and organization structure, managing change in international business, reasons and types o f change, Managing parent subsidiary relations.
Cross-cultural management: Definition of culture, elements, cultural clusters, importance of cross-cultural management skills, cultural contexts, managing cultural diversity, modeling cultural orientations, implications for managers.
Organizational Cultures: Organizational culture and national cultures, changing the organizational culture, national and organizational cultures in MNCs, implications for managers.
Design and Management of Strategic Alliances (SA) and Wholly-owned subsidiaries: Concepts of international joint ventures (IJV)and strategic alliance, reasons , factors for success and failure, human resource policies, management patterns of IJV- and SA , communication between the pattern and the IJV , factors for making SA and IJV successful, Wholly owned operations – concept , strategies, structures an subsidiary management.
Controlling International Operations: Levels of control, strategic control, organizational control, operations control, managing control functions, Controlling productivity and information in international ventures.
International management practices in Bangladesh.
Recommended books:
Hodgetts, Richard M. and Luthans, Fred, International Management: Culture, Strategy and Behaviour, New Delhi, Tata McGraw-Hill Pub. Co. Ltd.
Michael and Brooke, International Management: A Review of Strategy and operations, Hutchison.
Griffin, R.W. and Pustay, Michael W. International Business: A Managerial Perspective, California, Addison-Wesley.
Mead, Richard, International Management: Cross Cultural Dimensions, Blackwell Business.