APG5470 · Managing multicultural teams

Overview

In today's globalised world, particularly in multicultural societies such as Australia, all professions require a nuanced understanding of the challenges and opportunities created by cultural diverse workplace. 21st-century graduate students need to be equipped with a critical understanding of intercultural competence, as well as the skills and attitudes required in order to apply this understanding to their chosen field. This unit addresses current needs in the areas of intercultural communication by training professionals in cultural intelligence, thus providing them with a practical 'intercultural skill-set' relevant to their field of expertise. This unit develops your intercultural competence and provides you with skills and attitudes to successfully manage multicultural teams in a variety of professional settings. You will have to complete a series of modules focusing on different patterns of communication involved in multicultural teamwork. In addition, this unit provides strategies to enhance the ability to connect with people across similarities, as well as to adapt and adjust across differences.

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Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Within semester assessment: 100%

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

The Handbook lists no prerequisite, corequisite or prohibition for this unit.

Learning outcomes

1. critically evaluate how cultural differences shape discourse, attitudes and behaviours
2. explain differences in forms of verbal and non-verbal communication
3. identify and adapt communication patterns and styles
4. work collaboratively to apply personal intercultural competence in multicultural teams.

Workload

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.