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Managing Across Cultures - MAN00127M

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  • Department: The York Management School
  • Module co-ordinator: Information currently unavailable
  • Credit value: 15 credits
  • Credit level: M
  • Academic year of delivery: 2022-23
    • See module specification for other years: 2024-25

Module summary

This module explores culture in organisations and how culture(s) influences organisations

Module will run

Occurrence Teaching period
A Spring Term 2022-23

Module aims

This module aims to provide an understanding of how culture in all its forms influences people’s behaviour in organisations and its impact on management practices.

Module learning outcomes

By the end of this module, students should be able to:

  • Critically evaluate the impact of global citizenship on organisations on multiple levels, both formal and informal;
  • Evaluate emerging methods and processes for addressing cultural issues, their outcomes and their possible impact on a workforce;
  • Critically assess an organisation's culture - from a range of positions, including interpersonal conflicts - and its influence on the organisation's opportunities and challenges;
  • Nurture collaborative, cohesive and inclusive practice in the contemporary workplace based on a critical awareness of diversity and difference.

Assessment

Task Length % of module mark
Essay/coursework
Essay : Individual assignment (case study)		 N/A 100

Special assessment rules

None

Reassessment

Task Length % of module mark
Essay/coursework
Essay : Individual assignment (case study)		 N/A 100

Module feedback

In accordance with School policy.

Indicative reading

Hearn, J. and Parkin, W. (2021). Age at work : ambiguous boundaries of organizations, organizing and ageing. London; Thousand Oaks, California: Sage.
Holden, N. (2015). The Routledge companion to cross-cultural management. London ; New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.

Sjöstedt, A., Giritli Nygren, K., Fotaki, M. (2021). Working Life And Gender Inequality : intersectional perspectives and the Spatial Practices of Peripheralization. S.L.: Routledge.


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