COURSE DESCRIPTION

This is a hands-on course in which exercises, cases, and guest speakers give answers to the following questions: What skills are needed by global business leaders? What is required to do cross-border business? What essential strengths and weaknesses do you have as a cross-cultural leader and how can you maximize your potential? How can you analyze and change organizational culture to suit the needs of a global business? Michael Frese was one of the founders and authors of the award-winning Global Leadership and Effectiveness Study (GLOBE study). As a result of this course, you will become a better global leader (including leading cross-national teams), understand potential problems of ex-pat leaders better, and be better prepared for a new job in a different country.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Better understand cross-cultural measures
• Understand cross-cultural differences affecting international business as well as international marketing campaigns

FACULTY BIOGRAPHY

Professor Frese is full professor at ASB and Leuphana (he also held past (visiting) appointments: Univ of Pennsyvlania, University of Munich, Giessen, Amsterdam, London Business School, Markerere University Business School, NUS Business School). He is the most highly cited OB scholar in Asia-Pacific; among the 10 most cited worldwide; published 400 articles, 30 books, about 500 seminars, talks for industry; Several Distinguished Scientific Contributions Awards (Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Entrepreneurship division of Academy of Management, German Psychological Association; International Association for Chinese Management Research’ International Association of Applied Psychology and fellowships). Member of the Academy of Science in Germany (oldest Academy in the world, other members e.g., Einstein)