Organizational culture and intercultural management 2600-MSMz1proKOZM
• Theories of Organizational Culture
• dimensions of culture according to Geert Hofstede
• cultural determinants of leaderhip according to the GLOBE project studies
• rradical reductionism of cultural anthropology and organizational sociology (Michael Minkov)
• Pragmatics of intercultural communication
• understanding national cultures through their key words and critical analyses of context, knowledge, power and influence
• Natural Semantic Metalanguage and minimal languages of Anna Wierzbicka
• interdisciplinary platforms of communication pragmatics in cultural anthropology, psychology, and sociology of organization plus linguistics
• Multimedial determinants of intercultural communication
• case study of media messaging: intercultural communication in coronavirus pandemics (British mutation, Chinese food market and Sputnik vaccine)
• case study of universities under lockdown and virtual communications (Betina Szkudlarek z University of Sydney Business Scool and United Nations Alliance of Civilizations)
• Cross-cultural competence and management of meaning, organizational formulae for sensemaking of behaviors, events, processes and organizations
• the newest history of inside company communications – letters and pixels in comunication (dr Monika Sońta, Koźmiński Academy)
• the basic value conflicts in contemporary cultures
Type of course
Mode
Assessment criteria
Mini-essays for five sessions, except for the last one, when team projects will be presented and discussed
Bibliography
The basic textbook:
Steers, R., Nardon, L., Sanchez-Runde, red., Management Across Cultures. Developing Global Competencies, 2016, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
Supplementary literature:
Jemielniak, D., Przegalińska, A., 2020, Collaborative Society, MIT Preess, Cambridge MA
Magala, S., 2005, Cross-Cultural Competence, Routledge, London
Tietze, S., Cohen, L., Musson, G., 2003, Understanding Organizations Through Language, Sage, London
Wierzbicka, Anna, 2014, Imprisoned in English. The Hazards of English as a Default Language, Osford University Press, Oxford