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2023-2024 Undergraduate Academic Catalog-June Update 
    
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BUS 2445 - Global Business

3 lecture hours 0 lab hours 3 credits
Course Description
“It’s a small world.”  In a time of advanced technology, the world not only feels small in terms of accessibility, but also in terms of connectivity. It’s impossible to avoid being impacted by the decisions made by others around the globe. This course helps students view business and careers through an international lens with focus on economic, legal/political, and cultural dimensions. Students will explore opportunities and risks of operating in a global environment, examine the impact of trade agreements, political alliances, cultural norms, and legal issues.  Students will also build skills for working internationally. (prereq: none)
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  • Explain how globalization impacts all organizations and what it means to be international
  • Demonstrate cultural awareness of another country as an employee and a customer
  • Identify factors that influence success within international business to include trade agreements, political alliances, legal frameworks, culture, and operations alignment
  • Describe how companies can support their employees in global business activities          
  • Apply ethics in a global business context with particular emphasis on human resources, production, and sustainability
Prerequisites by Topic
  • None
Course Topics
  • Expansion/adaptation: marketing and product
    • Product expansion analysis into a new country: 4-phase process
  • Cultural models (Hofstede, Schuster and Copeland, Globe, Trompenaars)
    • Multicultural diversity and intercultural sensitivity
    • From both employee and customer POV
  • Role of global leader and follower
    • Social roles, leadership, authority, and power in culturally mixed groups: relationship and rules
      • Gender, race, and ethnicity
    • Motivating
  • Human resources laws, policies and practices
    • International human resources: ethnocentric, polycentric, geocentric
  • Risk management: political and economic/financial
  • International trade: regional agreements and relationships
    • Leading and emerging countries in a global world
  • International politics and government and the opportunities and challenges they provide related to global business
  • Negotiations
  • Working for a global company
  • International teams and virtual dynamics
  • Ex-pat training, understanding: going abroad and returning home
    • The ex-pat spouse and family
Coordinator
Dr. Trina Moskalik


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