Undergraduate Course: International Strategic Management in Practice (BUST10104)
Course Outline
| School | Business School |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Available to all students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Credits | 20 |
| Home subject area | Business Studies |
Other subject area | None |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | On this course, you will learn how to develop strategies for firms or business units by actually doing it. In the first few weeks, some particular issues that are currently the focus of widespread concern by senior managers will be examined in some depth. Then the doing will begin, in tasks that will prepare you well for assessment centres, interviews, and future roles in management as well as for your dissertation. This first involves you presenting a seminar on a topic of particular strategic interest. Then, in a role-play, you will act as a consultant and present strategic recommendations to a case firm, which will develop skills that you will use again in the exam, where you will be asked to advise a CEO as to what he/she should do. The presentations are observed by a leading management consultancy firm who will give practical feedback as to the content and presentation style of your work. |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | Business Studies Honours entry. |
| Additional Costs | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | Visiting students should have at least 3 Business Studies/Management courses at grade B or above (or be predicted to obtain this). We will only consider University/College level courses.
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| Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? | Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2011/12 Semester 2, Available to all students (SV1)
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WebCT enabled: Yes |
Quota: None |
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Description |
Weeks |
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Friday |
| Central | Lecture | | 1-5; 8-12 | 11:10 - 13:00 | | | | |
| First Class |
Week 1, Monday, 11:10 - 13:00, Zone: Central. Room 2.14, Appleton Tower |
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| Main Exam Diet S2 (April/May) | | 2:00 | | |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
On completion of the course participants should understand:
&· How senior management needs to bear different organizational stakeholders and their wants in their strategy formation, the differences between shareholder value and stakeholder approaches, and related corporate governance issues.
&· The underlying resource base of organizations, and how these influence both strategy
and the way that it is developed, especially when working across borders.
&· The perennial challenge of designing organizational structure, especially difficult when operations are separated by geography, language, culture and time.
&· The contexts and options in strategy formation which can fundamentally change what firms do and how they do it; whether or not they are themselves international, and how firms can enter new markets.
On completion of the course you will be able to:
&· Digest, interpret and summarise some of the latest and possibly complex ideas of strategic management, and present them coherently, intelligibly and effectively to enable understanding by others, and management action.
&· Work within teams to prepare a sophisticated presentation, integrating ideas learned by different members of the team.
&· Give an advanced level presentation and be able to defend ideas and views confidently and effectively in front of others.
&· Persuade colleagues and actual business managers of the value of your ideas, integrating conceptual ideas with practical problems, and defending them to questioning.
&· Present and argue coherent recommendations in response to two evident strategic problems faced by the CEO of a case firm.
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Assessment Information
| Course Assignments 40% of the total marks (group work seminar presentation 20%; group work case presentation 20%) and final degree open book (case study) examination 60%. |
Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
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| Keywords | ISMP |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Prof Volker Mahnke
Tel: (0131 6)51 5315
Email: Volker.Mahnke@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mr Paul Kydd
Tel: (0131 6)50 3824
Email: Paul.Kydd@ed.ac.uk |
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