Study Guide

Objective

The objective of the course is to improve the participating talents' skills in communicating both verbally and in print, and to efficiently interact across varying business cultures. In order for professionals to accomplish tasks in hand within the competitive global economy, cross-cultural competence is a must for all experts due to the complexities of the international business environment.

Content

The course focuses on involving the talents in exploring and tackling situations resulting from inter- and intra-organizational interactions in intercultural working environments. Efficient and effective communication strategies and techniques are pursued for messaging, reporting, concluding negotiations and meetings, and delivering dynamic presentations.
This 5 ECTS course requires 135 hours of student's workload. There will be four online contact lectures of four sessions each which are a must for all attending this course. The rest of the hours will be dedicated to reading, researching and preparation. Students are required to prepare in advance before attending the contact sessions in order to gain optimal outcome from the online sessions.
There will be a teamwork and additional self-supervised tasks which are to be accomplish as instructed.

Qualifications

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Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

satisfactory (1-2)
Student knows and understands the core issues involved in cross-cultural interactions and their applications in daily interactions.

Assessment criteria, good (3)

good (3-4)
Student has the sensitivity and competence to apply cross-cultural norms in professional interactions.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

excellent (5)
Student knows, understands fully cross-cultural peculiarities, and has appropriate competence in interacting professionally and otherwise in varying cross-cultural situations.