3. Reading Material

Required Materials

Textbook: George, Jennifer M., Hill, Charles W.L. and Jones, Gareth R.: Contemporary Management. Irwin McGraw-Hill; Global Edition 2011. (available for loan in the AAU Library)

Recommended Materials

●      Case studies, articles, and other handouts will also be used and posted on the course website.

●      Essential Management Theories and the Thinkers Behind Them, https://www.business.com/articles/popular-management-theories-decoded/ (available on NEO)

●      Spears, L. C. (2010). Character and servant leadership: Ten characteristics of effective, caring leaders. The journal of virtues & leadership, 1(1), 25-30. (available on NEO)

●      The 6-D model of national culture, https://geerthofstede.com/culture-geert-hofstede-gert-jan-hofstede/6d-model-of-national-culture/ (available on NEO)

●      Human resource management: A manual for employer and business membership organizations, https://www.ilo.org/resource/news/human-resource-management-manual-employer-and-business-membership (available on NEO)

4. Teaching methodology

Combination of traditional lecture, interactive cases, discussions, and group work including a term project. The course will consist of 14 interactive lectures. There will be midterm exam, final exam, and final presentation throughout the semester. Exams will be written exam during the course at the same classroom. Final presentation includes group work and class assignments. At the end of the semester, students will present their group work individually and equally using PowerPoint presentations at class.

5. Course Schedule

6. Course Requirements and Assessment (with estimated workloads)

*1 = Critical Thinking; 2 = Effective Communication; 3 = Effective and Responsible Action

7. Detailed description of the assessments

Attendance:

Students’ physical attendance to every class and active engagement to class without disturbing anyone. Attendance is mandatory at AAU School of Business.

Class Participation:

Students are responsible for participating in all class discussions. Participation is evaluated on the quality of your contribution to the learning experience of the class.

Class Assignments:

Class assignments will be produced as a group work. Groups will be formed at the beginning of the semester. Each group will select a project topic/company and implement management topics to their project topics. After lecturing, the professor will give the related topics to be analyzed in specific companies/markets/countries. Adapt theory to practice in management. Exact content varies. Solve real business problems or adapt techniques/strategies to solidify understanding of in-class examples. Assignments should be submitted to the professor at the end of the class.

Assessment breakdown Class Assignments

Mid-term Exam:

1-hour written exam covering areas related to the first half of the course.

Assessment breakdown Mid-term Exam

Final Presentation:

Students will study as a team and present their projects. Students should adapt and implement management topics given by the professor at each class to their projects. Students can also use in-class assignments in their final presentations. They will present their group work in 25 minutes presentation examining in-depth a topic of the group’s choosing.

The assignment should be prepared in PowerPoint. Only one group member should submit the presentation. It should be submitted to NEO on the day of presentation, just before the class. The presentation format includes bullet points, short paragraphs, tables, figures, and images (only if images are related to the subject).

Students will present their group work individually and equally using PowerPoint presentations at the class. Do not copy and paste. Cite sources in the slides, if necessary. Put all sources to References at the end of the presentation. Presentation should include cover page, brief introduction about the project topic, students’ analyses and interpretations regarding the business problems. All students in the group will be responsible of the entire presentation and should answer all questions related to the presentation. Students can be graded separately due to different distribution of individual workloads in their presentations.

Assessment breakdown Final Presentation

Final Exam:

1.5-hour written exam covering all topics covered in the entire course, with emphasis on topics not covered in the mid-term exam.

Assessment breakdown Final Exam

8. General Requirements and School Policies

General requirements

All coursework is governed by AAU’s academic rules. Students are expected to be familiar with the academic rules in the Academic Codex and Student Handbook and to maintain the highest standards of honesty and academic integrity in their work. Please see the AAU intranet for a summary of key policies regarding coursework.

Course specific requirements

There are no special requirements or deviations from AAU policies for this course.