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Administration (ADMN) 417
International Business Management
Overview

This overview course is designed to expose business majors to salient dimensions of the worldwide business activity of international firms. In general, international firms are defined as small and medium-sized enterprises whose current and/or future operations transcend national boundaries; these enterprises can be “for-profit” as well as “not-for-profit” organizations.

ADMN 417 explores key international business dimensions in terms of their core concepts, and highlights the business and social implications of these core concepts from the perspective of managers and public-policy makers. The course introduces students to international business “hot” topics such as global social responsibility, but emphasizes a Canadian perspective on these topics. When appropriate, ADMN 417 includes material on non-profit and non-governmental organizations.
Outline

Unit 1: Macro-Level Influences on International Business
Lesson 1: Globalization
Lesson 2: Cross-cultural Business
Lesson 3: Political and Law in Business

Unit 2: International Business and International Firms
Lesson 4: International Trade and Investment
Lesson 5: Regional Economic Integration
Lesson 6: Foreign Direct Investment

Unit 3: Configuring Firms for International Business
Lesson 7: Analyzing International Opportunities
Lesson 8: Selecting and Managing Entry Modes
Lesson 9: International Human Resource Management

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Advanced Placement Program (APP)

Unlike the CEP, assessing a student’s qualification for the Advanced Placement is left to the discretion of the core departments concerned: they may wish to use the results of the Ateneo College Entrance Test, if applicable, or administer a different examination, whether oral or written. They may also confer this status on a student by virtue of his or her having received an excellent mark in the same course from a reputable high school.

Like the CEP, the Advanced Placement status is given to students who, as a result of a strong secondary education or other forms of formal or non-formal training, have already achieved the learning objectives of particular courses required in the core curriculum. The Advanced Placement Program does not exempt the student from a course; the students are asked to replace the course with a more advanced course in the same discipline. This program is designed to help gifted students push further the boundaries of their learning.

Courses included in the Advanced Placement Program are English 11, Foreign Language and Culture, and Filipino 11 and at the discretion of the Math Department – Math 11 and Math 18.

Postgraduate research programmes at Aston University
The Institute aims to broaden and deepen understanding of the relationship between language and society. The focus of its research is the study of language and discourse with respect to social processes and structures. ISLS seeks to accomplish its mission through research projects, publications, conferences, lectures, seminars and visits by distinguished academics.

The Institute coordinates, encourages and promotes research specifically devoted to the following topics:
(Critical) discourse analysis,
political discourse analysis
Corpus linguistics
Dialectology
Foreign language teaching and learning
Forensic linguistics
Intercultural communication
Language of business culture
Language policy
Linguistics, applied linguistics, sociolinguistics
Metaphor research
Translation studies.

MAJOR IN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS:

The International Business Major is designed to provide students with a particularly wide variety of experiences to prepare them to participate successfully in global business. International business students need to be educated in the history, language, and practices of other cultures. Along with a strong foundation of business courses, this major draws upon the strengths of related disciplines such as foreign language, literature, history, geography, philosophy, political science, and theology. Upon graduation, students are fully prepared to enter a global organization in any one of several functional areas (marketing, management, and manufacturing) or proceed to graduate studies.

Requirements:

The courses in the International Business Major are divided into three areas:

Area I:

Business Knowledge Core (nine courses)
ACC 125 Principles of Accounting I
ACC 126 Principles of Accounting II
ECO 110 Principles of Microeconomics
ECO 111 Principles of Macroeconomics
ECO 115 Statistics
ECO 325 Corporate Finance
MGT 100 Management and Organizational Behavior
MGT 101 Principles of Marketing
MGT 210 Quantitative Methods

Area II:

International Business Core (six courses) MGT 306 International Marketing MGT 307 International Management MGT 400 Business Strategy Foreign Language at level 3. International business majors are encouraged to satisfy their General Education requirement by selecting the language option. Language competency may also be satisfied through AP level 4. One additional foreign language or linguistics course at any level. This foreign language will be other than that used to satisfy the level 3 requirement. One from among the following courses, or two if foreign language competency is satisfied by AP credits:

MGT 318 Asian Business Practices
MGT 320 European Business Practices
MGT 334 International Communication: Organizational Perspectives
ECO 353 International Trade OR ECO 354 International Finance
MGT 399 Internship in Business: This is a supervised internship sponsored by the Business Studies Department.

The two types of internships which may qualify are (1) internships through an approved overseas study program, or (2) internships with a U.S.-based, multinational corporation in an international, functional area. These internships should be planned with the internship coordinator at least one semester in advance. The sequencing of International Business Core and Depth courses should follow that already suggested for the management or marketing major. The sequencing of the other requirements of this major remains at the discretion of the student and his/her advisor. Note: Students are not officially enrolled until the internship coordinator has approved the application and notified the Registrar that the student may register for the internship course. Area III: International Business Cultural Literacy Depth (3 courses, one in each of 3 areas) The focus of this area is to build student knowledge of cultural literacy. Additional courses which clearly support this learning goal will be approved by the Chair, Department of Business Studies. A literature or film course in a foreign language or ENG 378 Post-Colonial Literature, and other literature courses whose focus is non-American.

GEOGRAPHY:
GEO 222 Regional Geography of South America
GEO 224 Regional Geography of Asia
GEO 232 Regional Geography of Africa
HIS 207 Islam, Modernity & the West
HIS 210 Diplomatic History of Europe in the 20th Century
HIS 242 Russia since 1917
HIS 251 Modern Latin America since 1821
HIS 267 United States Foreign Relations Since 1898
HIS 272 Germany since 1890
HIS 282 Japan From 1868 to Present
HIS 283 Modern China: War and Revolution
PHI 365 Late Modern Philosophy

POLITICAL SCIENCE:
POL 207 Peace and War
POL 331 Latin American Politics
POL 332 Russian and Post-Soviet Politics
POL 333 Asian Politics
POL 371 Foreign Policy and Diplomacy
POL 375 The Study of International Relations

ANTHROPOLOGY:
ANT 131 Cultural Anthropology
ANT 230 Special Topics
ANT 235 Ethnography of Latin America
THE 383 Asian Traditions
MGT 399* Internship in Business * The internship requires a minimum GPA of 2.8

Business Adminstration course for School Of Management

SM80.25 : Managing Human Resources in Multinational Corporations 3(3-0) [Elective course]

Rationale:

Globalization has led to a free-flow of investment across borders. Multinational companies which operate in various different cultures need to balance the home and host countries’ human resource management practices to gain competitive advantage and become a global company.

Catalog Description:

The Role of Foreign Direct Investment in Developing Economies, Global Firms and the Global Environment, International Human Resource Management, Cultural Dimensions in People Management, Expatriate Turnover, Performance Appraisal System, International Rewards System, Career Development Issues, Development of Global Leader s in MNCs, Communicating Across Cultures, Managing Multicultural Teams, Localization.

Pre-requisite(s):

SM60.43 Human Resource Management

Course Outline:

I. The Role of foreign direct investment in developing economies
Global firms and the global environment

II. Strategic international human resource management
Typology of international human resource management
Cultural dimensions in people management

III. Contemporary issues in expatriation
Managing global managers
Expatriate turnover

IV. Performance appraisal system
Standardization vs. localization of performance appraisal
Cultural influences on the performance management system

V. International reward systems
Factors that create distinctive national rewards
Linking rewards issues to developments in national business systems
The significance of international values in reward system

VI. Development of global leader in MNCs
Leadership revisited
Career development issues
Women in international management

VII. Communicating across cultures
Creating cultural synergy

VIII. Managing Multicultural teams
Types of diversity in teams
Cultural diversity’s impact on teams
Conditions for team effectiveness
Managing culturally diverse teams

IX. Localization of MNCs

Various opportunities for study abroad are available in addition to the AUAP and AUGP. Asia University has exchange agreements with nineteen universities in twelve countries and regions the first of which was signed in 1958 with New Asia College, Chinese University of Hong Kong. Formal exchange programs where students exchange places with a student at an overseas institution or enroll directly in the institution are currently available with sixteen of the universities. Asia University also supports students who study abroad at their own expense at institutions with which an exchange agreement has not been formalized by accepting credits earned abroad and providing a system of on-going study to minimize their leave of absence. Furthermore, financial support and scholarships are available to assist students with personal expenses while abroad.

Study Abroad & Exchange
Beijing Normal University China
Dalian University of Foreign Languages China
New Asia College, Chinese University of Hong Kong China
Xinjiang Institute of Finance Economies China
Tamkang University Taiwan
Kyung Hee University Korea
Srinakharinwirot University Thailand
University of Indonesia Indonesia
University of Malaya Malaysia
State Pedagogical University of Mongolia Mongolia
National University of Singapore Singapore
Matej Bel University Slovakia
Boise State University USA
Central Washington University USA
Eastern Washington University USA
Western Washington University USA