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Apr 25, 2024
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ODL-606 Global and Intercultural Strategies and Skills4 semester credits
Examines the trends in globalization, including virtual work teams, mergers and acquisitions, and the effect of emerging digital technology and its impacts on global relations. Focuses on the importance of culture in organizations and its impact on organizational performance. Explores diversity as a challenge and an opportunity at the individual, group and organizational level. Students learn to understand how distance affects the dialogic process in cross cultural, virtual teams.
Pre-requisites: ODL-669 , ODL-670 or ODL-671
Delivery Method: Online
Grading Default: Letter
Learning Outcome(s):
Students will be able to:
- Be able to discuss and appreciate the historical and contemporary concepts of culture and cultural diversity at home, abroad, and in culturally diverse and geographically dispersed teams.
- Recognize the impact of cultural diversity from a personal and organizational perspective, as applied toward their organizational experiences.
- Identify strategies for prevention and points for intervention and estimate their impact on organizational adjustment, performance and satisfaction.
- Strategize, experiment with, and debrief interventions based on a combination of individual professional experience, course readings and discussions, and personal reflections.
- Explain the key challenges and opportunities of diversity in online communication and some appropriate strategies for intervention and facilitation.
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