Navigating the Global Workplace

Our quality of life, identities, and well-being are strongly influenced by our work. There is, however, growing difficulty in finding and keeping meaningful, fair, safe, and sustainable work. “Navigating the Global Workplace” examines the changing nature of today’s increasingly globalized workplaces and labour markets. In working with diverse teams, it addresses behavioural and technical competencies such as leadership, ethics and business acumen. In addition, it provides tools to increase intercultural sensitivity and effective communication, enabling participants to successfully navigate global workplaces by increasing self-awareness and practical knowledge.

Learning Outcomes

  • Analyse and evaluate key competencies needed to become an effective manager,
  • Develop key competencies through practice-oriented activities such as scenarios, role-plays, team activities, video presentations, reflective exercises.
  • Understand all value creation activities undertaken by firms and articulate the extent to which they are mutually reinforcing
  • Examine intercultural workplace practices and applying learnings from Cultural orientations to workplace situations

Course Content

Navigating Organisation – Focusing on organisational culture;Understanding Leadership styles – dealing with the leaderships styles and the various ethical conundrum; Communicating in an Intercultural Environment; Managing Businesses for Value creation; Managing Diverse Teams and learning effective methods to handle conflict in an intercultural organisation and how to learn the art of effective negotiation

Name of the Coordinators

Ms Aroor Aatmika Shetty
Dr Adithya D Shetty
Mr Lumen Shawn Lobo

Distinctive Features

  • Interactive sessions and participatory activities related to working in diverse teams
  • Introduction to Indian Management Culture and tools to equip participants with intercultural sensitivity in the Workplace
  • Enabling participants to successfully navigate global workplaces by increasing self-awareness and practical knowledge
  • Visit to local business houses
  • Operation in multicultural environment
  • Interaction with regional entrepreneurs

Offered by

Department of Commerce, MAHE
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