IB 9920 - Cultural Frameworks and Cross-Cultural Behavior

3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: Prerequisites: None.
Description
The primary objective of the seminar is to examine the conceptual foundations of culture and how culture affects organizational behavior in comparative and multicultural contexts. Conceptualizations of culture are studied from a number of different disciplinary perspectives. We examine how alternate conceptualizations of culture influence research design issues. Also addressed are critical methodological issues in implementing a cross cultural study, with a particular focus on psychometric considerations, as well as recent research on the ways in which cultures vary. We also investigate how national culture affects teams, leadership, conflict, and negotiation. M