business management // 6 hours

Questions required to answer:

1. Could we use the term “Personal administration department” for describing the main Human Resources roles and responsibilities in a modern company? Justify your answer using the key concepts delivered in the course.

2. Using the cultural dimensions proposed by Hofstede’s Model, compare differences between 3 different countries.

3. Identify the main cultural elements (values, heroes and artifacts) in 2 global companies that you know. Justify your election.

4. Which are the main issues of Business ethic for a global company in this century?

5. Describe and compare minimum 3 types of leadership delivered in the course.

6. Build a table comparing different models (Maslow, Herzberg and Schein) for understanding the labour motivation. Identify the main strengths and weaknesses of each of them for explaining the challenges of a modern company for engaging their employees.

(For preparing your answers you should deep review concepts delivered in the course, especially in Units 3, 9 and 10).

Formalities:

· Individual task

· Wordcount: 2000 words

· Cover, Table of Contents, References and Appendix are excluded of the total wordcount.

· Font: Arial 12,5 pts.

· Text alignment: Justified.

· The in-text References and the Bibliography have to be in Harvard’s citation style.

· The assignment will be submitted as a document and upload in .pdf.