Articles
This article focuses on how culture and politics influence business negotiations in the Arab world.
What is “Culture and Business Networks: International Business Negotiations with Arab Managers” by Khakhar & Rammal (2013)?
This refers to planning, organizing, leading, and controlling resources to achieve organizational goals
What is management?
This topic is covered to create a foundation for all other course discussions.
What is Recap of Management Theories & Modern Managerial Challenges?
his topic becomes critical when a company starts operating in multiple countries.
Managing in the global environment
This smartphone company lost market leadership due to slow strategic decision-making and resistance to change.
Nokia
This classic article explains why management practices cannot be applied the same way across countries.
What is “The Business of International Business is Culture” by Geert Hofstede (1994)?
This management approach focused on efficiency by scientifically studying relationships between people and tasks.
What is scientific management?
This assessment type is used regularly to check understanding of recently covered topics.
What are quizzes?
This topic matters most when teams are stressed, overworked, or facing change.
Workforce resilience
This company successfully transformed itself from a DVD rental business into a global digital platform.
Netflix
This article shows that team diversity can help or hurt performance depending on team dynamics.
What is “Managing Diverse Teams by Enhancing Team Identification: The Mediating Role of Perceived Diversity”by Shemla & Wegge (2018)?
Routine decisions that follow established rules are called this type of decision making.
What is programmed decision making?
This part of the course focuses on preparing students for real-world managerial complexity rather than memorizing theory.
What is applying management theory to modern issues?
Which of our topics do you think matters most for managers in Armenia - or your country - and why?
Whatever you say is true?
This car manufacturer is often cited as a success story of efficiency, standardization, and process optimization.
Toyota
This article argues that modern innovation must go beyond small improvements to address major social and environmental challenges.
What is “Innovation in the 21st Century: Architectural Change, Purpose, and the Challenges of Our Time” by Rebecca Henderson (2020)?
The ability to understand and manage your own emotions and those of others.
Emotional Intelligence
This topic logically follows management theory to explain how people’s values and behaviors affect management.
What is Understanding Culture in Today’s Business Environment?
This topic is central when employees resist new rules or leadership styles.
Organizational culture
This company reflects Theory Y principles by empowering employees and encouraging responsibility and innovation.
This article finds that business ethics strongly influence how customers perceive brands.
What is “Business Ethics, Corporate Social Responsibility, and Brand Attitudes: An Exploratory Study” by Ferrell et al. (2019)?
This scholar is known for developing cultural dimensions that explain differences in national cultures.
Hofstede
This topic comes after people-management topics and focuses on organizational growth and change.
What is Innovation & Creativity in Business?
This topic becomes relevant when managers must choose between speed and quality.
Managerial decision-making
This energy company collapsed after unethical leadership and a toxic organizational culture.
Enron