Unit study package code: MGMT5003 Mode of study: Internal Tuition pattern summary: Note: For any specific variations to this tuition pattern and for precise information refer to the Learning Activities section. Seminar: 1 x 3 Hours Weekly This unit does not have a fieldwork component. Credit Value: 25.0 Pre-requisite units: Nil Co-requisite units: Nil Anti-requisite units: Nil Result type: Grade/Mark Approved incidental fees: Information about approved incidental fees can be obtained from our website. Visit fees.curtin.edu.au/incidental_fees.cfm for details. Unit coordinator: Title: Dr Name: Htwe Htwe Thein Phone: +618 9266 1295 Email: [email protected]Location: Building: 408 - Room: 3030 Consultation times: Tuesday and Wednesday from 10 am to 12 noon Teaching Staff: Administrative contact: Name: Claire Loh Phone: +618 92661667 Email: [email protected]Location: Building: 408 - Room: 3003 Learning Management System: Blackboard (lms.curtin.edu.au) Unit Outline MGMT5003 Culture and Ethics in Business Semester 1, 2016 Curtin Business School (CBS) School of Management MGMT5003 Culture and Ethics in Business Bentley Campus 21 Feb 2016 School of Management, Curtin Business School (CBS) Page: 1 of 13 CRICOS Provider Code 00301J The only authoritative version of this Unit Outline is to be found online in OASIS
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Unit study package code: MGMT5003
Mode of study: Internal
Tuition pattern summary: Note: For any specific variations to this tuition pattern and for precise information refer to the Learning Activities section.
Seminar: 1 x 3 Hours Weekly
This unit does not have a fieldwork component.
Credit Value: 25.0
Pre-requisite units: Nil
Co-requisite units: Nil
Anti-requisite units: Nil
Result type: Grade/Mark
Approved incidental fees: Information about approved incidental fees can be obtained from our website. Visit fees.curtin.edu.au/incidental_fees.cfm for details.
Unit coordinator: Title: DrName: Htwe Htwe TheinPhone: +618 9266 1295Email: [email protected]: Building: 408 - Room: 3030Consultation times: Tuesday and Wednesday from 10 am to 12 noon
Acknowledgement of Country We respectfully acknowledge the Indigenous Elders, custodians, their descendants and kin of this land past and present.
Syllabus This unit examines contemporary cultural and ethical issues and concerns and their impact in modern business settings. Focal regions include the Asia Pacific (including Australia), established trading blocs in key economic zones and emerging economies. Students will reflectively and critically examine their own cultural and ethical frames of reference.
Introduction As increasing numbers of people and businesses in the world cross national borders, the work of global managers gets more and more complex. It has become increasingly important and challenging for managers to develop understanding and competency in how to work with other people and organisations from and in different economic and sociocultural backgrounds/contexts. Developing multicultural competencies is one of the foci of this unit.
The unit focuses on three interrelated elements: understanding global challenges; understanding global environment; and developing global management skills.
The unit outline (this document) gives you important information about the general aims of the unit, texts and references, and details about the assessment, including allocation of marks, grading criteria and submission dates. You are required to read and understand the expectations outlined in this document. Study it carefully, paying particular attention to method of instruction, class times, assessment instructions and submission dates. Information contained in this Unit Outline specifies the requirements for this unit and explains your rights and responsibilities in relation to Curtin University.
I wish you every success in Culture and Ethics in Business unit and in your future studies.
Unit Learning Outcomes All graduates of Curtin University achieve a set of nine graduate attributes during their course of study. These tell an employer that, through your studies, you have acquired discipline knowledge and a range of other skills and attributes which employers say would be useful in a professional setting. Each unit in your course addresses the graduate attributes through a clearly identified set of learning outcomes. They form a vital part in the process referred to as assurance of learning. The learning outcomes tell you what you are expected to know, understand or be able to do in order to be successful in this unit. Each assessment for this unit is carefully designed to test your achievement of one or more of the unit learning outcomes. On successfully completing all of the assessments you will have achieved all of these learning outcomes.
Your course has been designed so that on graduating we can say you will have achieved all of Curtin's Graduate Attributes through the assurance of learning process in each unit.
On successful completion of this unit students can: Graduate Attributes addressed
1 Critically and reflectively review diverse sources of current ethical and cultural issues of significance in business contexts
2 Develop global understanding and global management skills for global managers
3 Critically reflect on the impact of one's own cultural and ethical values and cultural heritage in interactions with others in organisations
4 Critically review and analyse indigenous topics in contemporary business.
5 Critically and reflectively review and analyse media articles
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Curtin's Graduate Attributes
Learning Activities The unit is offered in a three-hour weekly seminar involving a lecture and tutorial activities.
Learning Resources Essential texts
The required textbook(s) for this unit are:
l Steers, Nardon and Sanchez-Runde, “Management Across Cultures: Developing Global Competencies,” Cambridge University Press, 2013. (ISBN/ISSN: 9781107030122)
Other resources
Sweeney, P. D. & McFarlin, D. B. (2015). Doing Things Right: International Ethics and Social Responsibility. International Management. Fifth Edition, Routledge, New York.
McDonald, Gael. (2015) "Business Ethics: A Contemporary Approach", First Edition, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne.
Please see the blackboard for lecture overheads and additional materials.
1. This assignment tests your global competencies and especially your ability to understand the cultural environment (see Chapter 3 in your textbook by Steers et. al, 2013). Understanding the cultural environment is one of the most important competencies of successful managers and leaders in a global context.
To successfully complete this assignment you will be required to engage with the following tasks.
1. Familiarise yourself with the relevant theories of culture and models of cultural dimension (‘What is Culture?’ by Spencer-Oatey 2012, and Chapter 3 in your textbook)
2. Interview a person from a culture other than yours. This could be a classmate or someone you met recently. The interview should focus on any international experience your interviewee may have (e.g. the place they used to live in or a place they have visited). As a guide, you can structure your interview around (1) the five cultural dimensions discussed on page 81 in your textbook and (2) the World Values Survey (http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org)
3. The interview should take around 30minutes. You are allowed to take notes only (no audio or video recording is permitted to protect confidentiality and anonymity). The interview is anonymous (you don’t disclose the true identity of your interviewee during the presentation). Ways to protect a person’s anonymity can be discussed with the lecturer closer to the date.
4. Active perception and listening are essential to successful interviewing. You will be required to learn about these skills and apply them as best as you can. This also means awareness of own cultural biases and stereotypes.
5. The analysis portion of the assignment calls for your thoughts on what you learned during the interview and how you applied the interview contents to the theories and models discussed in the unit to be presented as a short video presentation.
6. The short video presentation you’re expected to produce should be no longer than 5 minutes. The video is expected to include a presentation of your findings. This 5-minute video-recording
Facilitated Workshop 30 percent Week: Commencing in Week 7 Day: Monday 11th April 2016 Time: In class
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Final Learning Journal 40 percent Week: Week 14 Day: Friday 5th June 2016 Time: 5 p.m
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should NOT be a video of you interviewing your subject! As stated above, you are not permitted to audio or video tape the interview (only note-aking during the interview is allowed). The video could be recorded as a PowerPoint presentation or a short video (recorded with your mobile phone camera, for instance) of you presenting your findings. You can use images, charts and other figures that help you communicate the content. The quality of the video should be good enough to be clearly seen and heard, but your video-making abilities will not be marked.
7. Individual students are required to submit their videos via the blackboard by 5 pm on Friday 29th April 2016. The videos will be played and marked in class (in week commencing Monday 2nd May 2016). The video should be recorded in mp4 format in a small file size.
8. The video presentation will be shown and marked in class. The results will be available a week after the presentation. Students are supposed to play the presentation either from their own devices connected to the classroom’s data projector or from their thumb-drives using the class computer.
Worth: 30%
The overhead slides (to be used in this assessment) is to be submitted online via Turnitin on Blackboard; hard copy submissions of assessments will not be accepted. Submission links are located under the Assessment link in the Navigation Panel on the left side of the screen in Blackboard. Following this link may also give you the option to upload a draft copy of each assessment to Turnitin prior to your final submission. If you choose to upload a draft (referred to in Turnitin as a “Revision”), Turnitin will generate a feedback report to help you pinpoint any referencing issues, thus providing you with the opportunity to make changes before uploading your final submission.
2. Student groups are to choose ANY case application (in blue shading in each chapter of the text) interspersed throughout each chapter of the textbook. The cases illustrate how the theories learnt in each chapter apply in real life situations. To respond to discussion questions that accompany the cases requires student groups to analyse critically the decisions made by global managers and to think how to improve them.
In addition to the discussion questions accompanying a case application, students are to include an ethical dimension of the ‘story’ in a case under study to ask, “Is/are there any ethical implication/s? If there is/are, what is/are they?
This is a group work assessment. The requirement for this assessment, as the name “Facilitated Workshop” suggests, goes beyond a simple presentation. The suggested format is for members of a group to 1) present the general outline of the case application that they have chosen for this assessment (up to 10 minutes); 2) to sit with other groups and facilitate the discussion with the group and take short notes (25 minutes); 3) the group members meet to brief each other regarding their experiences with the facilitations that have occurred in each group (20 minutes) and 4) present the findings/responses to the case questions back to the class (up to 15 minutes).
The allocated times may vary depending on the class sizes. It is expected that student groups use a combination of overheads (or Power Point) and other written forms to aid the facilitations.
At the start of the presentation, please provide the class lecturer with a set of your presentation slides (in hard copy) which contain the presenters' names and student IDs.
As this is an in-class activity, while Turnitin is not required for this assessment, student groups are to submit their presentation slides to the blackboard prior to the presentation.
Worth: 30%
3. This component is assessed individually. Each student is required to write a learning journal during the course of the semester to collect ONE article from press sources (newspapers, and magazines and so on). Students may consider selecting media articles relating to Indigenous people in sports or mining.
The purpose of this assessment is to analyse the chosen article using the Global Management Model used in the unit by Steers, Nardon, Sanchez-Runde (2013).
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When you submit your Learning Journal to Turnitin, you will also have to include a copy of the article you have analysed for your Learning Journal (please be reminded that providing just the link of your article is not sufficient).
The expected length of your Learning Journal is five pages (using 12 point font, 1.5 line spacing) answering the following four questions:
l What do you see as challenges for a global manager? l Discuss the area(s) (cultural, organisational or situational environments) in which a global manager
needs to develop a good understanding. l Discuss the global management skills that need to develop in order for a manager to be effective and
successful? l Is/are there any ethical implication/s? If there is/are, what is/are they?
In this assessment, a student needs to take time in choosing an article carefully so that a suitable article is chosen. To be able to tackle the questions above, students are allowed and expected to make projections and assumptions, based on the contents of the article.
This assessment requires you to produce a well-written and well-researched analytical piece and to use a minimum of 10 references from scholarly sources. The writing should be in scholarly style. Note that the Chicago referencing system is the only acceptable referencing system for written work in this unit.
Worth: 40%
This assessment (including the media article you use to analyse for your learning journal) is to be submitted online via Turnitin on Blackboard; hard copy submissions of assessments will not be accepted. Submission links are located under the Assessment link in the Navigation Panel on the left side of the screen in Blackboard. Following this link may also give you the option to upload a draft copy of each assessment to Turnitin prior to your final submission. If you choose to upload a draft (referred to in Turnitin as a “Revision”), Turnitin will generate a feedback report to help you pinpoint any referencing issues, thus providing you with the opportunity to make changes before uploading your final submission.
Pass requirements
Students must obtain an overall mark of 50/100 (50%) and attempt all assessments to pass this unit.
Fair assessment through moderation
Moderation describes a quality assurance process to ensure that assessments are appropriate to the learning outcomes, and that student work is evaluated consistently by assessors. Minimum standards for the moderation of assessment are described in the Assessment and Student Progression Manual, available from policies.curtin.edu.au/policies/teachingandlearning.cfm
Late assessment policy
This ensures that the requirements for submission of assignments and other work to be assessed are fair, transparent, equitable, and that penalties are consistently applied.
1. All assessments students are required to submit will have a due date and time specified on this Unit Outline. 2. Students will be penalised by a deduction of ten percent per calendar day for a late assessment submission
(eg a mark equivalent to 10% of the total allocated for the assessment will be deducted from the marked value for every day that the assessment is late). This means that an assessment worth 20 marks will have two marks deducted per calendar day late. Hence if it was handed in three calendar days late and given a mark of 16/20, the student would receive 10/20. An assessment more than seven calendar days overdue will not be marked and will receive a mark of 0.
Assessment extension
A student unable to complete an assessment task by/on the original published date/time (eg examinations, tests) or
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due date/time (eg assignments) must apply for an assessment extension using the Assessment Extension form (available from the Forms page at students.curtin.edu.au/administration/) as prescribed by the Academic Registrar. It is the responsibility of the student to demonstrate and provide evidence for exceptional circumstances beyond the student's control that prevent them from completing/submitting the assessment task.
The student will be expected to lodge the form and supporting documentation with the unit coordinator before the assessment date/time or due date/time. An application may be accepted up to five working days after the date or due date of the assessment task where the student is able to provide an acceptable explanation as to why he or she was not able to submit the application prior to the assessment date. An application for an assessment extension will not be accepted after the date of the Board of Examiners' meeting.
Deferred assessments
If your results show that you have been granted a deferred assessment you should immediately check your OASIS email for details.
Supplementary assessments
Supplementary assessments are not available in this unit.
Referencing style
The referencing style for this unit is Chicago.
More information can be found on this style from the Library web site: http://libguides.library.curtin.edu.au/referencing.
Academic Integrity (including plagiarism and cheating) Any conduct by a student that is dishonest or unfair in connection with any academic work is considered to be academic misconduct. Plagiarism and cheating are serious offences that will be investigated and may result in penalties such as reduced or zero grades, annulled units or even termination from the course.
Plagiarism occurs when work or property of another person is presented as one's own, without appropriate acknowledgement or referencing. Submitting work which has been produced by someone else (e.g. allowing or contracting another person to do the work for which you claim authorship) is also plagiarism. Submitted work is subjected to a plagiarism detection process, which may include the use of text matching systems or interviews with students to determine authorship.
Cheating includes (but is not limited to) asking or paying someone to complete an assessment task for you or any use of unauthorised materials or assistance during an examination or test.
From Semester 1, 2016, all incoming coursework students are required to complete Curtin’s Academic Integrity Program (AIP). If a student does not pass the program by the end of their first study period of enrolment at Curtin, their marks will be withheld until they pass. More information about the AIP can be found at: https://academicintegrity.curtin.edu.au/students/AIP.cfm
Refer to the Academic Integrity tab in Blackboard or academicintegrity.curtin.edu.au for more information, including student guidelines for avoiding plagiarism.
Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Expectations Curtin students are expected to have reliable internet access in order to connect to OASIS email and learning systems such as Blackboard and Library Services.
You may also require a computer or mobile device for preparing and submitting your work.
For general ICT assistance, in the first instance please contact OASIS Student Support:
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For specific assistance with any of the items listed below, please contact The Learning Centre: life.curtin.edu.au/learning-support/learning_centre.htm
l Using Blackboard, the I Drive and Back-Up files l Introduction to PowerPoint, Word and Excel
Additional information
Week Begin Date
Pre-readings Tutorial Due
Orientation 22 Feb
1. 29 Feb l Food and International Business
2. 7 Mar Chapterr 1
Case 1.2: Hamburgers and A380s
l Food and International Business
3. 14 Mar Chapter 2
Case 2.2: Expats at LG
l Getting ready: Discussion on Assessment 1 (Written Assignment) and 3 (Learning Journal)
4. 21 Mar Chapter 3
Case 3.2: Traffic fines in Finland
IB ethics
l Getting ready: Discussion on Assessment 2 (Facilitated Workshop)
l IB ethics
5 28 Mar Tuition Free Week
6 4 April Chapter 4
Case 4.4: Global cultures at GE and Wal-Mart
Indigenous cultures
7. 11 April
Chapter 5
Case 5.6: Work rules at Air France
Indigenous cultures
IB ethics reading
Facilitated workshop presentations commence
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Enrolment
It is your responsibility to ensure that your enrolment is correct - you can check your enrolment through the eStudent option on OASIS, where you can also print an Enrolment Advice.
Student Rights and Responsibilities It is the responsibility of every student to be aware of all relevant legislation, policies and procedures relating to their rights and responsibilities as a student. These include:
l the Student Charter l the University's Guiding Ethical Principles l the University's policy and statements on plagiarism and academic integrity l copyright principles and responsibilities l the University's policies on appropriate use of software and computer facilities
Information on all these things is available through the University's "Student Rights and Responsibilities" website at: students.curtin.edu.au/rights.
Student Equity There are a number of factors that might disadvantage some students from participating in their studies or assessments to the best of their ability, under standard conditions. These factors may include a disability or medical condition (e.g. mental illness, chronic illness, physical or sensory disability, learning disability), significant family responsibilities, pregnancy, religious practices, living in a remote location or another reason. If you believe you may be unfairly disadvantaged on these or other grounds please contact Student Equity at [email protected] or go to http://eesj.curtin.edu.au/student_equity/index.cfm for more information
You can also contact Counselling and Disability services: http://www.disability.curtin.edu.au or the Multi-faith services: http://life.curtin.edu.au/health-and-wellbeing/about_multifaith_services.htm for further information.
It is important to note that the staff of the university may not be able to meet your needs if they are not informed of your individual circumstances so please get in touch with the appropriate service if you require assistance. For general wellbeing concerns or advice please contact Curtin's Student Wellbeing Advisory Service at: http://life.curtin.edu.au/health-and-wellbeing/student_wellbeing_service.htm
assignments at Shell Video presentations
14. 30 May
Chapter 12 Assessment 3 (Learning Journal)
due 5 pm Friday 5th June 2016
Video presentations
15. 6 June Study Week
16. 13 June
Examinations
17. 20 June
Examinations
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Recent unit changes Students are encouraged to provide unit feedback through eVALUate, Curtin's online student feedback system. For more information about eVALUate, please refer to evaluate.curtin.edu.au/info/.
Recent changes to this unit include:
1. Assessment one (Individual Presentation) is newly developed for the unit (commencing in semester 1, 2016)
2. student groups now have longer time to conduct their Facilitated Group Presentations (due to reduced class sizes)
To view previous student feedback about this unit, search for the Unit Summary Report at https://evaluate.curtin.edu.au/student/unit_search.cfm. See https://evaluate.curtin.edu.au/info/dates.cfm to find out when you can eVALUate this unit.
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