Curriculum design
Strategic
planning by the School has identified our primary goal as the 'integration of
Eastern and Western management knowledge'. Staff are supported and
encouraged to achieve and build the reputation of the School while
pursuing this goal in areas of research, teaching and consultancy, both individually
and in collaboration with others.
The School aims to ensure that each course has an international component and has achieved this by reviewing the content of all courses in preparation for the new MBA and DBA implementation in 2004, and also by capturing the experience of our transnational staff and students through the development of discipline teams and their websites.
About 30% of our academic staff are bilingual, and staff will be recruited in the short and medium term to build upon the current staff capabilities and provide the School with a competitive edge in the market.
All courses (MBA and DBA) include both cross-cultural content and context. The School has developed learning and assessment grids for each course, ensuring that updated grids are prepared each time a course is developed or revised.
During 2003 the School was accepted as a full member of the prestigious Consortium for the European Summer School of Advanced Management. This now enables our MBA students to participate in the European Summer School and receive credit towards their MBA studies within the IGSB.
During 2004 the School was invited to host the McCombs School of Business from The University of Texas (one of the top 10 business schools in the USA), and our MBA students were able to receive credit towards their IGSB MBA as a result of participation in the Texas program.
The IGSB has also identified a key strategic project that focuses on the internationalisation of our research. The School has appointed a Professor of Cross-cultural Management to develop a system to monitor the research activities of our Doctoral students in this area (both transnational and international), and to encourage staff to be more active in researching this area.