GAZI UNIVERSITY INFORMATION PACKAGE - 2019 ACADEMIC YEAR

COURSE DESCRIPTION
CROSS CULTURAL MANAGEMENT/8270012
Course Title: CROSS CULTURAL MANAGEMENT
Credits 3 ECTS 7.5
Semester 2 Compulsory/Elective Elective
COURSE INFO
 -- LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION
  Turkish
 -- NAME OF LECTURER(S)
  Assoc.Prof. Guler SAGLAM ARI
 -- WEB SITE(S) OF LECTURER(S)
  http://websitem.gazi.edu.tr/site/gsaglam
 -- EMAIL(S) OF LECTURER(S)
  gsaglam@gazi.edu.tr
 -- LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE COURSE UNIT
Have ability to analyze culture, cultural modals and types
Have ability to lead teams in the croscultural area.
Have ability to analyze and solve problems that may arise in the croscultural area
Have ability to analyze Turkish culture and business systems, the culture of North America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Middle East and business systems





 -- MODE OF DELIVERY
  The mode of delivery of this course is Face to face
 -- PREREQUISITES AND CO-REQUISITES
  There is no prerequisite or co-requisite for this course
 -- RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL PROGRAMME COMPONENTS
  There is no recommended optional programme component for this course
 --COURSE CONTENT
1. Week  The culture concept and dimensions of culture
2. Week  Regional and local culture, industry culture, organizational culture
3. Week  Knowledge management in the international area
4. Week  Decision making in the cross-cultural area
5. Week  Cross cultural Leadership
6. Week  Cross culturual teams
7. Week  Cross cultural negtiation and conflict management
8. Week  Midterm
9. Week  Cross cultural communication
10. Week  Global human resource management
11. Week  Analyzes the Turkish culture and Turkish business system
12. Week  North and Latin American cultural environment and business system
13. Week  Eurpean cultural environment
14. Week  Asian cultural environment
15. Week  Africa and Middle East cultural environment
16. Week  Final exam
 -- RECOMMENDED OR REQUIRED READING
  1) Browayes, M.J. and Price, R. ( 2011) Understanding Cross – Cultural Management, 2nd edition. Harlow: Pearson Education Limited 2) Bartlett, C., Ghoshal, S. and Beamish, P. (2008) Transnational Management: Text, Cases and Readings in Cross-Border Management, fifth edition, New York, McGraw Hill. 3) Branine, M ( 2011 ) Managing Across Cultures : Concepts , Policies and Practices London : Sage 4) Thomas, D.C. (2008) Cross Cultural Management: Essential Concepts, second edition, London, Sage. 5) A. Selami SARGUT, Kültürler Arası Farklılaşma ve Yönetimi, 2. Baskı, İmge Kitabevi, Ankara, 2010. 6) İsmet BARUTÇUGİL, Kültürler Arası Yönetim, Kariyer Yayıncılık, İstanbul, 2011. 7) Makaleler
 -- PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODS
  Lecture, Question & Answer, case study
 -- WORK PLACEMENT(S)
  Not Applicable
 -- ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA
 
Quantity
Percentage
 Mid-terms
1
20
 Assignment
1
20
 Exercises
0
0
 Projects
0
0
 Practice
0
0
 Quiz
0
0
 Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade  
40
 Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade  
60
 -- WORKLOAD
 Efficiency  Total Week Count  Weekly Duration (in hour)  Total Workload in Semester
 Theoretical Study Hours of Course Per Week
14
3
42
 Practising Hours of Course Per Week
0
 Reading
14
5
70
 Searching in Internet and Library
14
2
28
 Designing and Applying Materials
0
 Preparing Reports
0
 Preparing Presentation
6
2
12
 Presentation
6
1
6
 Mid-Term and Studying for Mid-Term
5
3
15
 Final and Studying for Final
5
3
15
 Other
0
 TOTAL WORKLOAD: 
188
 TOTAL WORKLOAD / 25: 
7.52
 ECTS: 
7.5
 -- COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM
NO
PROGRAM LEARNING OUTCOMES
1
2
3
4
5
1To have the required knowledge to be an expert in international trade, business management, international logistics, international business and lawX
2To be able to take part in and create value for businesses and organizations operating in the field of international trade that is related to his/her expertiseX
3To have the required basic knowledge about international trade and other related disciplinesX
4To be able to act according to ethical principles while performing international trade activities in organizations being involved.X
5To be able to identify problems related to the area of expertise, to gain access to relevant resources, to be able to make analysis and synthesis in order to produce scientific knowledge and to conduct a researchX
6To be able to have creative, critical and innovative thinking skills with regard to the areas of expertiseX
7To be able to develop strategies that will provide comptitive advantage to the organization and country while performing activities related to area of expertise as being aware of the the continuing economic, political and cultural variables in the country and in the world.X
8To have the knowledge, skills and equipment required to develop national and international projects and take part in project teams regarding the areas of expertiseX
9Being cabaple of estimating, identifying and analyzing the problems in the international trade areaX
10Being cabaple of producing the politics of international trade growing and solving the problemsX