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Postgraduate - Unit MGX5171 - Managing the multinational enterprise: cases and issues

Assessment Within semester assessment: 60% Examination: 40% Chief examiner(s) Dr Audra Mockaitis Contact hours 3 hours per week Prerequisites MGX9660 Co-requisites Students should study this unit in the final year of their course.

6 points, SCA Band 3, 0.125 EFTSL

To find units available for enrolment in the current year, you must make sure you use the indexes and browse unit tool in the current edition of the Handbook. Level Postgraduate Faculty Faculty of Business and Economics Organisational Unit Department of Management Offered Not offered in 2013 Coordinator(s) Dr Audra Mockaitis Synopsis Issues include the impact of culture on management and the convergence-divergence debate; centralisation versus decentralisation of decision making; standardisation versus differentiation of management activities; control versus delegation; and, competition versus partnership: new international organisation forms and implications for management. Outcomes The learning goals associated with this unit are to: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. critically analyse the issues relating to global-local dilemma confronting multinational enterprises analyse the issues relating to multinational production systems and their impact on management practices develop skills to examine the global supply chain and quality management practices pursued by multinational enterprises Identify the attributes that successful multinational managers should have to meet and beat the challenges of managing stakeholders define the theoretical and conceptual frameworks underlying particular issues in international management critically analyse the multinational management practices, and apply them to case studies.

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