Globalisation allows individuals, groups, corporations, and countries to reach around the world farther, faster, more deeply, and more cheaply than ever before. Most large local companies regard globalisation as opportunity, thereby exploring overseas markets for maximum market share and optimum business strategies. However, managers would face a series of challenges caused by leadership models, cultural backgrounds, political and economic risks, HR management, etc. To study multinational management skills is very useful for my future career. In this essay, I will set goals for this subject, identify the skills I have honed and need to improve, and explain my strategies for achieving goals.
Goals Setting
In the following next six to twelve months, as a student, my short-term goal is to take exchange program which I could study in a foreign country in my last semester. Exchange students from different countries with multi-cultural backgrounds come together to study, which is a big challenge for me to communicate and work as a team based on a good understanding each other.
After completing my graduate degree, working as a financial consultant in a multinational enterprise is my dream striving to come true. Endless conflicts with partners, continual misunderstandings with clients, and mutual distrust between parent company and subsidiaries would often happen in multinationals.
Whatever in the campus or workplace, I would face many thorny problems related with cultural difference, management models, communication barriers or interpersonal conflicts. Therefore, in order to work well in multinational, improving management skills based on case learning is my next plan that turning theory into practice.
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...nderstanding and reader comprehension. In future, I could well apply methods and skills to manage conflicts if I confront with difficult situations. Similarly, studying different leadership models of characters in cases is a good way to developing my leadership skills.
• Quantitative & Qualitative Measures
After taking the above actions, I will make both quantitative and qualitative measures to evaluate my skills whether or not are improved. The quantitative measure is to make a survey that asks for categorical questions to my peers or groupmates who need to rate a response 1-10 marks every time. Every result of survey would be calculated and compared, which I can know what I should improve more and what I have achieved. Also, I will apply qualitative measure, like verbal interview, that ask open-ended questions for peers to get evaluation or feedback.
In this turbulent and contradictory global environment, global management skills development is essential for the global managers. Global managers have to think globally, not only standing the country in which they live. Through continuous learning different global management skills, to avoid the impact of cultural differences and manage the intercultural business more effectively. Global mindset, cross cultural competence and intercultural sensitivity, all these major global management skills, if the Wal-Mart can effectively implement in transitional business, believes it will able to significantly improve the problems its face in Japan business. Wal-Mart also can use the previously described methods to execute global management skills development, enable organization to effectively development global managerial skills.
The objective of this paper is to disclose how my career aspirations will align with the Adult Education program. The Adult Education program is important, because it provides a source for me to exercise my professional purpose. “Helping adult learners become successful one student at a time” is my professional purpose. I strive to make a difference in other lives, which drives me to contribute more than I have personally. Helping others motivate me to reach beyond my immediate means to other resources that can help adult learners to become successful.
One of my personal goals includes grasping a part of my business knowledge from an international institution. The Student Exchange Abroad program at Schulich will help me achieve my goal. This program is quite unique as it allows students to experience business studies from an international institution. I am looking forward to this program at Schulich because it will challenge my comfort zone. Additionally, this program will be an asset in my personal and professional career because having international experience in the field of business is amazing for my resume when applying for a job.
Multinational enterprise (MNE) is “a company that is headquartered in one country but has operations in one or more other countries” (Rugman and Collinson 2012, p.38) that has at least one office in different countries but centralised home office. These offices coordinate global management in the context of international business. MNEs have increasingly essential influence on the development of the global economy and coordinate with other companies in different business environments. However, there are many issues involved with how MNEs operate well overseas, especially in emerging markets (EMs) (Cavusgil et al., 2013, p.5).
A primary source of learning and growth for is lessons learned. Good leaders often appear to be wise but leaders have and will experience obstacles that could end up in failure. It is key for leaders to learn from these past failures. Equally important is to learn from successes and to repeat what works. Dees lays out several techniques that equip leaders to grow and learn in their professional lives. These techniques are reading, writingspeaking, teaching, and mentorship. (Dees, 2013) Reading as a continual practice allows leaders to stay abreast current events and trends in their specific profession. Furthermore, reading allows leaders to digest and analyze other bodies of information for application and maturation in their own skill set. (Dees, 2013) Writing and speaking are the second element of growth for a leadership. This skill set allows for crispness of thought and consolidation of viewpoints. Even for those who do not consider themselves natural writers or speakers, honing these skills will add an effective tool to the repertoire of leaders.(Dees, 2013) Teaching is also another mechanism for growth. As one teaches, one learns. Teaching allows for leaders to become subject matter experts in their chosen field. (Dees, 2013) Finally, the use mentorship is valuable tool to grow as leader. For mentorship to happen you must have a willing learner. With a willing
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Nowadays, business is set in a global environment. Companies not only regard their locations or primary market bases, but also consider the rest of the world. In this context, more and more companies start to run multinational business in various parts of the world. In this essay, companies which run multinational business are to be characterized as multinational companies'. By following the globalization campaign, multinational companies' supply chains can be enriched, high costs work force can be transformed and potential markets can be expanded. Consequentially, competitive advantages of companies can be strengthened in a global market. Otherwise, some problems are met in the changed environments in foreign countries at the same time. The changed environments can be divided into four main aspects, namely, cultural environment, legal environment, economic environment and political system problems. All the changed environments make problems to multinational companies. In particular, problems which are caused by changed culture environment are the most serious aspect of running a multinational business. This essay will discuss these problems and give some suggestions to solve them.
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