mq ib final week
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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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