KIE-08106 Intercultural Workplace, 2 cr

Additional information

Students will be enrolled on the course according to the time of sign-up, priority given to 1) students who have completed the Intercultural Communication Skills (KIE-08006) course; 2) TUT students to whom the course is compulsory; 3) students that enrolled earlier

20 participants will be enrolled.

To ensure the group diversity, ca. 40% of students from international master's degree programmes and exchange students and 60% of students from degree programmes in Finnish

Person responsible

Carlos Mendoza Santana

Lessons

Learning Outcomes

After completing the course, the student will identify how local, national and corporate culture have an effect in an intercultural workplace. Students will identify the corporate culture of some international companies and they will deep their knowledge about the working culture of a country of their interest. Students will be able to identify the advantages and challenges in a multilingual and multicultural workplace. They will learn different working cultures, leadership modes and strategies to enhance cooperation and solve conflicts in cross-cultural collaboration and multicultural teams. Students will deep their knowledge about setting a multicultural virtual team and strategies to avoid communication challenges caused by language and non-verbal communication through communication virtual tools. Activities in the course: -discussion of articles -forums -discussion leading task -final group written project and presentation Additional info: Students will be enrolled on the course according to the time of sign-up, priority given to 1) students who have completed the Intercultural Communication Skills (KIE-08006) course; 2) TUT students to whom the course is compulsory; 3) students that enrolled earlier 20 participants will be enrolled in the course.

Content

Instructions for students on how to achieve the learning outcomes

A minimum attendance of 80% is compulsory. The student also must complete the individual and team tasks assigned in the course.

Assessment scale:

Numerical evaluation scale (0-5)

Partial passing:

Completion parts must belong to the same implementation

Prerequisites

Additional information about prerequisites
Alternative prerequisite: KIE-9306 (academic year 2012-13 or earlier)

Correspondence of content

There is no equivalence with any other courses