Final Tute

1. Basic exam tips

2. Report collection and comments

3. Time for consultation-Consultation with groups for feedback -Consultation individually for exam help

We will finish early

so there’ll be

plenty of time for

your questions

Exam Topics

6. Managing change in international business7. International leadership and management9. Managing human resources on a global

scale10.International organisation design and

structure11. Managing knowledge resources12.International operations management

Exam Tips

Study 4 topics may be dangerous

Make sure you have a basic understanding of all chapters because things interconnect

Answer questions in relation to IB, not general business knowledge

Highlight keywords in each question and always make a plan for each question

Exam Plans

Can be on your question sheet or one side of blank side of your exam booklet

Help you plan rather than spew out stuff

Sometimes impress markers (if they are on an adjacent page)

You need a strong, powerful or engaging conclusion and a central theme

Exam

Plans:

Back to

basics

Making Your Responses Engaging

Making your responses unique is a risk but has good rewards if you make it work

Case studies, appropriate models or frameworks or famous quotes could be good glue to bind your exam responses

If in doubt how to apply a question to a case though, don’t use it

Interesting Conclusions

6. Managing change in international business

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

Charles Darwin

Interesting Conclusions

9. Managing human resources on a global scale

People are definitely a company’s greatest asset. A company is only as good as the people it keeps.

Mary Kay Ash

Interesting Conclusions

11. Managing knowledge resources

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Exam Tips

Watch out for multi-part questions

Much broader and less memory-based than mid-semester

Practice writing for 30 minutes on a topic

Be prepared to discuss how concepts or theories are linked

Example Questions (from Blackboard)

• Week 6: Explain the planned and the emergent approaches to organisational change

• Week 7: Define the key leadership theories, styles and categories and explain their relevance to the ideal of international leadership

• Week 9: Explain how the strategic use of human resources can contribute to a firm's global competitive advantage

• Week 10: Discuss whether managers of international firms need to approach organisational design differently than their counterparts in domestic firms

• Week 11: Explain the relationship between the development of a knowledge infrastructure and an international firm’s sustainable competitive advantage

• Week 12: Discuss how internationalisation affects the establishment of the infrastructure of a multinational corporation

Example Questions (from Blackboard)

• Week 6: Explain the planned and the emergent approaches to organisational change

• Week 7: Define the key leadership theories, styles and categories and explain their relevance to the ideal of international leadership

• Week 9: Explain how the strategic use of human resources can contribute to a firm's global competitive advantage

• Week 10: Discuss whether managers of international firms need to approach organisational design differently than their counterparts in domestic firms

• Week 11: Explain the relationship between the development of a knowledge infrastructure and an international firm’s sustainable competitive advantage

• Week 12: Discuss how internationalisation affects the establishment of the infrastructure of a multinational corporation

Answering Exam Questions

Define:

• State a textbook definition

• Discuss your own definition

• Define the importance of the concept

• Use examples to back up the definition

Answering Exam Questions

Explain:

• Quickly give a description with key properties or features of the concept

• Then explain the underlying theory and/or relate the concept to a larger context using case studies

Answering Exam Questions

Evaluate, Discuss or Compare

• Explain two or more different viewpoints

• Look at disadvantages or advantages

• Identify the most important things

Sustainability and CSR

Emerging Market

EconomiesPost GFC

“Hot topics”

• Try to say something interesting

• Don’t mention unless the question clearly asks for it

• These are the things you seem to love:

COMMON CASE STUDY MISTAKES

•Unrealistic recommendations

•An Executive Summary which was a TOC in full sentences

•Concluding with something too vague and broad

•Focusing on one country too much without relating it back

to global strategy

COMMON CASE STUDY MISTAKES

Minor Issues (did not impact marks much)

•Using etc. when it was not obvious what came next

•Super short paragraphs or long paras with unrelated points

•Failure to cite a source for a fact

•Not following Harvard referencing properly

Exam and

Group Report

Consultation Time

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