This
course aims to provide insight into the role of culture in international project/programme purpose. Learners first acquire a theoretical foundation for
understanding the powerful but often misunderstood forces that drive a culture’s
orientation to individualism, human relations, communication, time, action and
environment. The course then offers practical
guidance for international project/programme purpose etiquette, communication and negotiation and explores
the challenges women face in a global setting. The
cultural specificities for doing project/programme purpose in the
Modules:
1. Introduction: Defining Culture in the
Context of International project/programme purpose
2.
Cultural
Orientations and project/programme purpose Behavior: Individualism
3.
Cultural
Orientations and project/programme purpose Behavior: Human
Relations
4.
Cultural
Orientations and project/programme purpose Behavior: Communication
5.
Cultural
Orientations and project/programme purpose Behavior: Use
of Time
6.
Cultural
Orientations and project/programme purpose Behavior: Action
and Space
7.
International
project/programme purpose Etiquette
8.
Cross-Cultural
project/programme purpose Communication
9.
Cross-Cultural
Negotiation and Deal-Making
10. Women
in International project/programme purpose
11. Case
Study: Doing project/programme purpose in
12. Case
Study: Doing project/programme purpose in the European Union
13. Case
Study: Doing project/programme purpose in
14. Case
Study: Doing project/programme purpose in the
15. Troubleshooting
and Review
This
lesson introduces the learner to the subject of culture and explores the value
orientations, patterns of thinking and other variables that characterize culture in the
context of international project/programme purpose.
This
lesson considers how individualism is viewed by different cultures and how individualism
impacts project/programme purpose behavior.
This
lesson examines culturally-based attitudes towards environment, power and competitiveness
and their impact on project/programme purpose behavior.
This
lesson examines how varying social contexts and values affect a culture’s
communication patterns.
This
lesson examines how different cultures perceive and manage time and how this affects
international project/programme purpose activities.
This
lesson reviews culturally-based attitudes towards action and the perception of space and
environment.
This
lesson addresses the principles of etiquette which the international executive should
understand in order to be more effective in the global project/programme purpose environment.
This
lesson examines how to identify and analyze cultural components of human communication in
order to improve the exchange of information in oral, written and visual project/programme purpose
communication across cultures.
This
lesson explores negotiating and deal-making across cultures.
In
this module we identified and provided answers to issues that women need to anticipate in
international project/programme purpose because of their gender. Steps
that should be followed to avoid a cultural difference from becoming a major problem and
barrier to doing project/programme purpose are outlined.
This
lesson aims to provide an introduction to the fundamental cultural orientations of
This
country case study explores the dominant cultural value orientations in the countries of
the European Union.
This
country case study explores the dominant cultural value orientations of
This
country case study explores the dominant cultural orientations in the
This
lesson reviews the common misconceptions about culture and reviews the criteria by which
international project/programme purposepeople can analyze their own value orientations.