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Programme Year Route

ICN Grande Ecole 2A TC

Title Code

Intercultural Communication

Leader Credits Volume Language

Bertrand AGOSTINI – Valery KRYLOV 2 15 h ENG

Course description

The purpose of the module is to familiarize students with the fundamental theories and tools of intercultural communication.

Content

1) Understanding intercultural communication 2) Acquiring competence in intercultural diversity 2) Interacting efficiently with other cultures

3) Understanding the impact of culture on business relationships

Learning objectives

(1.3) Use critical thinking in order to select the obvious elements of a problem and summarize them critically and argumentatively; (5.1) Decypher the codes of a different cultural environment ; (6.5) Develop critical thinking as related to one's own competences and find appropriate measures to develop them.

Reference

Departmental E.Book : Part 5: Culture and Intercultural Communication ; Culural patterns and Communication:

Taxonomies ; Cultural Identity and Cultural Biases ; Nonverbal Intercultural Communication.

Prerequisite & Evaluation

Prerequisite Assessment

None Final written exam: key questions based on course

material (1 hour 30 minutes)

Teaching methods

Lecture Directed Work e-Learning Other

Volume       15 hours 10 hours

(crossknowledge) 20 hours of

Bertrand AGOSTINI – Valery KRYLOV 2 10 h ENG

Course description

The purpose of the module is to familiarize students with the process of applying human resource management to international contexts. Human Resource Management challenges in the global workplace are of particular relevance to future managers such as working effectively in multicultural teams and successfully carrying out international assignments.

Content

1) Internationalization Process of a Company 2) Working Effectively in Multicultural Teams 3) International Assignments

Learning objectives

(1.3) Use critical thinking in order to select the obvious elements of a problem and summarize them critically and argumentatively; (2.1) Identify disciplinary fields, methods and tools in view of problem solving ; (3.3) Make decisions after a scrupulous analysis of its consequences and provide justification ; (5.1) Decypher the codes of a different cultural environment ; (6.5) Develop critical thinking as related to one's own competences and find appropriate measures to develop them.

Reference

Departmental E.Book : Part 5: Culture and Intercultural Communication ; Culural patterns and Communication:

Taxonomies ; Cultural Identity and Cultural Biases ; Nonverbal Intercultural Communication.

Prerequisite & Evaluation

Prerequisite Assessment

None Final written exam: key questions based on course

material (1 hour )

Teaching methods

Lecture Directed Work e-Learning Other

Volume       10 hours 5 hours

(crossknowledge) 10 hours of

Virginie ALLARD 2 15 h FRA/ENG

Course description and Teaching Methods

Deepening of concepts are needed for project management.

Finalization of the draft school chosen by the student - this refers to students on the site of Nancy and having built an association during the first year. The AP2, IPM2 and ICN2 Metz follow the course sessions but have no obligation to perform associative, but they are free to invest if they wish.

Content

The module covers the following thématiques:

- Manager and be managed - Team-building

- Fundamentals of Project Management - Governance and Project Finance - Study of a concrete case

Learning objectives

At the end of this module, the student will have learned and applied the methodology of project management:

* Job scheduling

* Research and mobilization of human, material and financial resources for the project * External and internal communication project

* Ability to adapt the project depending on the environment * Management of a team.

The student will be able to transfer these assets as part of its training and his first job.

Référence Books not mandatory reference:

- Project management - Robert Buttrick- Pearson Education - 2012 Edition Documents released under MyICN:

- Supports and resources discussed in class sessions

Prerequisite Expected Profile and Selection Process

Course Sequence and Homework Description

Session Manager and be managed session: types, role and activities of a manager

SessionTeam-building session: factors to increase the effectiveness of a team - support for the model and experience feedback

Session Testimony meeting a head of industrial project and recovery of the fundamentals of project management:

The different stages of a project: pre-project planning, implementation, termination.

The aim is to raise awareness of the problem, the difficulty of determining the duration of tasks, their order relations ...

Presentation tools such as WBS, PBS, OBS.

Principles of cost tracking

Session Presentation of the problem of collaborative R & D projects:

more sophisticated concepts related to financing and obtaining them and the management of a complex project (research development type). All this part is based on elements experienced.

the concept of tender and call for project how to present a project against a funder governance rules complex projects

illustration by an example valuation research

Session Testimony of a promoter: at the interface between the public and private sectors.

Additional References

1. A guide to the project management body of knowledge, fourth edition, PMI eds, 2009, ISBN 1933890517 2. Fundamental Project Management, P Lewis, Third edition, Copyright Material.

3. L'essentiel de la Gestion de projet - 5e édition, Roger Aïm, 2010, Gualino Eds, ISB : 2297014945 4. Critical chain : la chaine critique : Goldratt, AFNOR, 2002, ISBN: 2124656139

5. Reussir n’est pas une question de chance – Goldratt, AFNOR, 2002, ISBN : 2124650661 6. La gestion de projet : Principes et pratiques, AFITEP, 1998 , ISBN : 2124707213

7. Le dictionnaire du management de projet, AFITEP, 2010 ISBN : 2124843516

Assessment Methods

Inclass Assessment: 100 % Duration : 1 hour

☒Written ☐ MCQ ☒ Oral ☒ Report ☒ Participation

Final Exam : 0 % Duration : hours

☐Written ☐MCQ ☐Oral ☐Report ☐ Participation Additional information:

Work connected with the class sessions will be followed to achieve and will complete the following assessment depending on each course: Associative Project (ICN2 NANCY ex ICN1): The team will present its project to the tutor and project manager at the During a final collective defense. It will also present the results achieved at the end of course in a final report. The assessment made by the tutor and the project manager takes into account the quality of the work. The final evaluation also takes into account assessments peer (Peer Reviews). Regarding students learning path (ICN2 METZ), the evaluation will be performed from a case study or a project as part of your course project. In regard to who entered the second year through parallel admission (AP2 & NANCY IPM2), student assessment will be made by either a case study or during the course adjustment.

Programme Year Route

ICN Grande Ecole 2A TC

Title Code

IS Management

Leader Credits Volume Language

Nathalie DAGORN 2 15 h ENG

Course description and Teaching Methods

This course is about Information Systems Management. The lessons are given in-face (+ one group work) by lecturers having the skills required in the areas covered.

Content

Organizations, Management, and the Networked Enterprise Information Technology Infrastructure

Key System Applications for the Digital Age Building and Managing Systems

Learning objectives

The student is supposed to :

- understand how information systems work in a modern organization and how they support the objectives of the organization

- understand the concepts, tools, and techniques to develop and manage information systems

Référence

TEXTBOOK : K.C. Laudon, J.P. Laudon : Management Information Systems - Managing the Digital Firm, Pearson Education, 13th global edition (12th edition also allowed).

Prerequisite Expected Profile and Selection Process

No prerequisite

Course Sequence and Homework Description