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IN3501: BEING AN INTERNATIONAL MANAGER II (2023-2024)

Last modified: 23 Jul 2024 10:43


Course Overview

This course uses four interrelated topics to illustrate how to be an International Manager. The course integrates the concepts covered in Being an International Manager I from the viewpoint of the manager and the challenge she/he faces as well as the implication for the manager, taking a more applied and embodied viewpoint. In other words, while Being an International Manager I addresses what is international business, Being an International Manager II responds to how to be an International Manager.

Course Details

Study Type Undergraduate Level 3
Term Second Term Credit Points 15 credits (7.5 ECTS credits)
Campus Aberdeen Sustained Study No
Co-ordinators
  • Professor Donald Hislop

What courses & programmes must have been taken before this course?

What other courses must be taken with this course?

None.

What courses cannot be taken with this course?

None.

Are there a limited number of places available?

No

Course Description

This course uses four interrelated topics to illustrate how to be an International Manager. The course integrates the concepts covered in Being an International Manager I from the viewpoint of the manager and the challenge she/he faces as well as the implication for the manager, taking a more applied and embodied viewpoint. In other words, while Being an International Manager I addresses what is international business, Being an International Manager II responds to how to be an International Manager.


Contact Teaching Time

Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.

Teaching Breakdown

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Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 30 August 2024 for 1st term courses and 20 December 2024 for 2nd term courses.

Summative Assessments

Essay

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 60
Assessment Weeks 34 Feedback Weeks 36

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Using a form detailing achievement against a set of criteria. Assessment will be 60 % percent an essay of 2000 words that brings together some topics of the course and takes a critical approach using relevant references.

Word Count 2500
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
ProceduralApplyIdentify the impact of Internationalization and international business and design techniques to address such impact
ReflectionEvaluateAnalyse and Interpret evidence for how and why managers make internationalisation decisions.

Oral Presentation: Group

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 40
Assessment Weeks Feedback Weeks

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Using a form detailing achievement against a set of criteria. Presentation will need to be delivered during lecture time. The other 40% percent is a class presentation where students are awarded a grade based on how well they communicate, ask questions and understand the material. 

Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
ConceptualAnalyseExplain and identify IB management techniques to face environmental challenges
FactualRememberIdentify the impact the socio-cultural environment has the international business manager

Formative Assessment

There are no assessments for this course.

Resit Assessments

Essay

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 100
Assessment Weeks Feedback Weeks

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Feedback Word Count 2500
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
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Course Learning Outcomes

Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
ProceduralApplyIdentify the impact of Internationalization and international business and design techniques to address such impact
ReflectionEvaluateAnalyse and Interpret evidence for how and why managers make internationalisation decisions.
ConceptualAnalyseExplain and identify IB management techniques to face environmental challenges
FactualRememberIdentify the impact the socio-cultural environment has the international business manager

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