Development of the program of intercultural training for

Development of the program of intercultural training for managers Homework 2

Content of the Task • The purpose of this homework is to develop skills of creating intercultural training. You'll have, till the 30. 03. 2015, to prepare a program of intercultural training for international organizations. The requirements to the present structure of your training program are presented below.

Sample structure of intercultural training program Program structure: 1. The purpose of the training 2. Objectives of the training 3. The Audience of the training (the participants, their posts, their number) 4. The Content of the training. In this section you will present the main themes, to which the training will be devoted, the purpose of each topic, duration, content (a brief description of the main exercises). You should also describe the expected effects of each topic (what psychological constructs will change in the mind of the participants, what will the participants learn). 7. The expected effects from the training in a whole. 8. The expected sustainability of these effects. 9. Required tools (money, facilities, equipment)

• To ensure that you have an idea of what is the effectiveness of the intercultural training, you need to read the below written article before starting to write the program: J. Stewart Black and Mark Mendenhall. "Cross-Cultural Training Effectiveness: A Review and a Theoretical Framework for Future Research, " The Academy of Management Review, Vol. 15, No. 1 (Jan. , 1990), pp. 113 -136. I will send this paper to your group e-mail.

One of the sources of exercises • I have a book from which you can take exercises. You won’t find it in HSE’ s electronic libraries. This book is called: "110 experiences for multicultural learning”. I can give it to you, but someone should quickly scan it into pdf-format and send it to everyone (including to me). After scanning the book, you need to give it back to me: )). You may take from this book the exercises for the training. You may also take exercises from any other sources that you will find for yourselves. You can also try to create your own exercises, but you should describe it in details and justify its use.

The targeted audience of the training • You should choose the targeted audience of the training. It can be the managers of any country, who are traveling to another country for a long or short period of time. It can be the managers of the company, who need to work together with other managers or staff from another country due to a merger of companies, it may be members of a multicultural working group who need to adapt to work as one team etc. You should choose the industry in which the company is dedicated to and the country.

How to present the results of the work? • You should present the results in the form of a presentation at the seminar on March 30 th , which means you have 2 weeks to fulfill the task. Do not put the fulfillment of this homework into the "back burner“, because you will receive third homework in the next lesson. You will have to present the results of the 3 rd homework on the 01 st of April, which mean you will have to fulfill the 3 rd home work within one week. You will write a final test of the course in the last lesson (on April 20 th ).