Leadership and Change Management in a Multicultural Context

Date: November 18-21, 2013 (4 days)

Location: Carnegie Bosch Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

Fee: $5,200

Companies sending three or more participants, organizations with few than 500 employees, non-profits, and the government sector receive a 10% discount.

For questions, please contact the program coordinator at +1-412-268-7344 or cbi@andrew.cmu.edu.

Overview

Today’s global business environment is marked by change, complexity, and multiculturalism.

• Virtual teams are commonplace, allowing little face-to-face interaction with the people you manage or report to.
• You interact with global customers and/or your teams are staffed with international colleagues.
• Your company is involved in the challenging process of absorbing competitors, being acquired, or being responsible for complicated reorganizations across global borders.

These situations lead to management and communication challenges. Leadership and Change Management in a Multicultural Content can provide you with the cross-cultural management and change management strategies that are imperative in today's complex work environment. Participants come away with the knowledge and expertise to effectively manage multicultural teams and lead change.

Curriculum

In this four-day program, the following topics are covered:

• Effectively managing change across national and organizational cultural differences
• Cultural values and the impact of culture on management
• Cross-cultural management models
• Personal Intercultural Awareness Profile
• Organizational culture and impact on leading change
• Change process simulation
• Developing a personal leadership approach for today’s global business
• Tools and models that can be applied immediately in the workplace

Example sessions include:

• Organizational Culture and Change – Dr. Rousseau helps you to understand the layers of culture and how these layers contribute to the process of change in an organization. An assessment tool on organizational culture complements her lectures.
• Cross-Cultural Management – Dr. James Stück discusses differences among cultures. Learning why “culture is frozen history” will allow you to understand the origins of cultural differences and how to apply this knowledge to increase competitive advantage and day-to-day leadership ability. Along with engaging lectures, Dr. Stück incorporates group exercises, self-assessments, and role play.
• Personal Leadership Cases – Each participant defines an individual leadership challenge at the beginning of the program. Concepts from sessions are applied to the leadership cases, culminating in an opportunity to solicit feedback and solutions during a small-group session with fellow executives. One of the most highly-rated sessions in the program!

Participants

Leadership and Change Management in a Multicultural Context is designed for executives and mid- to upper-level managers. Recommended participants include those who:

• Supervise multicultural teams or departments
• Interact with international managers, colleagues, or customers
• Lead organizational change
• Engage in mergers, acquisitions, or complex reorganizations impacting a multinational business
• Hold or aspire to a key role in their organization
• Develop talent within an international organization

Faculty

Leadership and Change Management in a Multicultural Context brings together leading faculty in the areas of organizational behavior, change management, and cross-cultural management.

Denise Rousseau
H.J. Heinz II Professor of Organizational Behavior, Heinz College and Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University

Dr. Rousseau teaches courses on evidence-based management and decision making. Her research focuses on the impact workers have on the employment relationship and the firms that employ them. Dr. Rousseau is a faculty director for the Institute for Social Enterprise and Innovation at Carnegie Mellon University. She has served as President of the Academy of Management and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Organizational Behavior. Dr. Rousseau is a two-time winner of the Academy of Management’s George Terry Award for best management book (I-Deals: Idiosyncratic Deals Workers Bargain for Themselves, 2006; Psychological Contracts in Organizations, 1996).

James Stück
Director, Global Associates, and Associate Professor of Management and International Business, Valparaiso University

Dr. Stück is a cross-cultural management practitioner, consultant, and professor. For more than 20 years, he has been a cross-cultural management consultant, with Global Associates. He has managed international teams for over a decade in South America, Europe, and Asia; worked for six years on Wall Street; and was an associate for eight years with ITIM BV, an international cross-cultural management firm based out of The Hague, Netherlands. Dr. Stück has taught executive-level courses at Accenture, Rockwell, and McDonald’s. He is an associate professor of management and international business at Valparaiso University in Indiana.