Module
Leadership in Global Management

Type
Core GBM module (30 hours)

ECTS
5

UoW credits
10

Coordinator
Michal Jasienski, PhD

Overall Aims and Purpose
The course builds on knowledge gained in introductory Methods of Organization and Management, and develops awareness of the complexities of global business landscape. Students are exposed to problems facing leaders of multinational companies and develop a variety of problem-solving methods. Managing diversity and understanding issues relevant to multi-ethnic workforce is an important focus in this course. The course presents a survey of basic concepts of management, but emphasizing non-US perspectives, with particular emphasis on Europe, Japan and China.

Course Content
1. Harvard Business School Case: “Charlotte Beers at Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide”
2. Mintzberg’s managerial roles in a global company. Facing anti-globalist movements
3. Leadership Grid in an international context
4. Ethnic stereotypes. Nature-nurture. The IQ controversies.
5. Dimensions of diversity. Race, nationality and gender differences
6. Organizational culture in a multinational company. Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions. Leading ethnically diverse teams: Belbin’s team roles vs. Hofstede’s dimensions
7. The Chinese and Japanese leadership theories.
8. Harvard Business School Case: “GE's Talent Machine: The Making of a CEO”
9. Innovation management and allocation of R&D using globally diversified skills
10. Motivation theories: non-US perspectives
11. Re-engineering and change; centralized corporate control versus decentralized local management in a global organization
12. Harvard Business School Case: “Rudi Gassner and the Executive Committee of BMG International”
13. Influence at a distance: virtual boardroom and electronic integration of a decentralized, global organization
14. Harvard Business School Case: “Mercy Corps: Global Social Entrepreneurship”
15. Leadership in non-governmental international organizations: UN, EC, UNICEF, FAO, Amnesty International etc.

Reading list

Essential
1. “Global Leadership: The Next Generation” by Marshall Goldsmith, Warren G. Bennis, John O'Neil, Cathy Greenberg, Maya Hu-Chan, Alastair Robertson. Financial Times Prentice Hall (2003)
2. “Success for the New Global Manager: How to Work Across Distances, Countries, and Cultures”by Maxine Dalton, Chris Ernst, Jennifer Deal, Jean Leslie, Christopher T. Ernst, Jennifer Deal, Jean Leslie. Jossey-Bass, San Francisco (2002)

Suggested
3. “Leading the global workforce : best practices from Linkage, Inc.” (ed. P. Harkins et al.). The Jossey-Bass business & management series. Jossey-Bass, San Francisco (2006)
4. Selected chapters from “Advances in global leadership”, vol. 1-3 (ed. W.H. Mobley et al.) JAI Press, Stamford, Conn. (1999-2003)