MAN-30056 - Module Specification
Keele Business School
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Programme/Approved Electives for 2024/25

Available as a Free Standing Elective

Co-requisites

None

Prerequisites

None

Barred Combinations

None

Description for 2024/25

Much of the literature on business culture presents and promotes standardised approaches to doing business in the globalised world. This module opens up this unhelpful and homogenised view of business culture by focusing on the difference and diversity of business cultures across the world. The module offers a sophisticated introduction to theoretical perspectives on management in the context of globalisation, and considers international business cultures with reference to theories and typologies of organisational and national culture.

To interpret the role that culture plays in the international operation of business.
To explore how distinctive business cultures emerge.
To examine the relative strengths and weaknesses of diverse business cultures.
To assess and appraise the social, political, economic, institutional, ethical and technological factors that shape business cultures across time and space.

Intended Learning Outcomes

Identify and explain the emergence of distinctive business cultures: 1,2
Critically evaluate what constitutes a business culture and how it can be defined and assessed, using contemporary literature on national and organisational culture: 1,2
Critically analyse successful business cultures to assess what constitutes "success" in given cases: 1,2
Relate existing theoretical literature on business culture to different practical settings: 1,2
Develop a practical insight to working internationally, including expatriatism and managing culturally diverse organisations and teams: 1,2

Study hours

23 hours of scheduled learning: lectures (10x1hrs), tutorials (10x1hrs), staff-group project meetings (3hrs)
30 hours of group work
94 hours of private study and preparation
3 hours exam

School Rules

None

Description of Module Assessment