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By MARK LANDLER BERLIN, March 24 — The German sports-car maker Porsche said Saturday that it would make a takeover bid for Volkswagen, a symbolically audacious but largely legal step in its growing control over VW, Europe’s largest carmaker and the inventor of the…

By RICHARD SIKLOS In a long-anticipated challenge to YouTube and other online video sites, two big media companies yesterday announced a new venture to showcase their own programming across the Internet’s biggest Web sites, as well as a new jointly owned Web destination. The News…

Geert Hofstede is an influential Dutch expert on the interactions between national cultures and organizational cultures, and is an author of several books including Culture's Consequences (2nd, fully revised edition, 2001) and Cultures and Organizations, Software of the Mind (2nd, revised edition…

Week nine (26th April 2009)Managing Change and Global IntegrationLearning outcomes•    Gaining ability to diagnose the need, to implement and to evaluate change processes. •    Understanding HRM´s role in fostering coordination mechanisms within the…

Innovation and Organisational Learning Learning outcomesBecome aware of the difference of individual and organisational learning.Understand the impact of organisational learning on overall and long-term competitive advantage. Seminar tasksExercise on the Learning Company.Case-study…

Developing Leaders with a Global Mindset Learning outcomesUnderstand and practice the competency approach to HR development.  Seminar tasksExercise: Career anchors (Edgar Schein) Reading/activity for the week·      Evans, Paul and Pucik, Vladimir…

  Managing International Careers:Mastering Expatriation Learning outcomesUnderstanding major pitfalls of expatriation management.Identifying the most important success factors of selecting and developing expatriates.§         To become aware of…

  Understanding National andOrganisational CulturesLearning outcomesExplore frameworks of national and organisational culture.Critically evaluate models of cultural mergers. Seminar tasksExercise: Assessing national cultural profiles and its implication for managerial practices.Video on…

Defining the Nature and the Challenges of IHRMLearning outcomesTo understand the nature and challenges of IHRM, To get an overview of different models of HRM Seminar tasksIntroductory exercise Reading/activity for the week·      Evans, Paul and Pucik,…