Business in Global Context

Business in Global Context

1. Organization aspects

   • Organizational Structure
     • Functional, Matrix, Divisional
   • Organizational Culture and Climate
     • Values, beliefs, myths, traditions, norms
   • Goals

2. Introduction and Concept

   • Data Dashboard
   • BRICS
   • What is business?
     • Produce goods & services to meet the needs
   • Key aspects
     • Activities level, Organizational level, Strategic level, Environmental level

3. Current Business market envirnment

   • Globalization
     • “Supraterritoriality” (Scholte, 2000)
     • Key aspects
       • Political, Cultural, Economic & Operational
     • Perspectives
       • Globalist, Anti-globalist, Sceptical
   • Economy & the State
     • mearsuring
       • GDP, GNI, GNP, PPP, GDP per capita
     • BRIC
   • Sustainability
     • Economically vs Environmentally
       • NOT BALANCE
     • Responsibilitly
       • Markets, Governments, NGOs, Consumers, Companies
     • Patch 1 (Presentation)
       • NGO in food analyzing in Environment, Business, Economy and Globalization

4. Management

   • Management & Leadership
     • Management functions
       • Planning, Organizing, Commanding, Co-ordinating, Control
     • Leadership functions
       • Directing, Motivating, Inspiring
     • Leadership styles
       • Authoritarian, Democratic, Laissez-faire
   • Human Resource Management
     • Management decisions & actions affect the relationship between organization & employees Beer et al (1984)
     • Activities
       • Employee resourcing & development, Pay & performance, Employment relations
   • Operations Management
     • Considerations
       • Product & Work designs, Location
   • Strategy
     • Rational decision making
     • Levels
       • Corporate, Business, Functional
     • achieve their objectives. (Grant & Jordan 2012)
     • Patch 2 (Poster presentation)
       • Comparing two companies, MCD & GOOGLE

5. Technology and Innovation

   • Information Communication and Technology
     • E-commerce & E-business, Increased global competition
     • Cheaper and more powerful computers, New forms organization structure
   • Scope of innovation
     • Incremental, Radical, Paradigm shift
   • Innovation constraints
     • High risk, Lack of appropriate skills and investment
     • Complacency, Resistance to change

6. Patch 3 (1500 words)

   • Discusses how CSR influence customers & principles

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