Management Education in the Chinese Setting / Edition 1

by Erdener Kaynak

Overview

Examine innovative ways to educate managers to do business with the Chinese!

Management education is a big business today in the Greater China countries of Hong Kong, China, Macau, Singapore, and Taiwan as well as in Asian countries such as Malaysia and Indonesia where there is a considerable Chinese ethnic population. Management Education in the Chinese Setting explores the challenges and opportunities those countries offer to educators in program and course development, delivery of programs and course materials, and in the development of instructors.

This valuable book is a must for professionals, educators, and students interested in doing business in the Chinese setting. Here you’ll find thoughtful examinations of:

• three frameworks for introducing the theory of anthropology into the IBRM element of a DBA course
• an innovative business ethics program developed at the Hong Kong Baptist University's School of Business
• a survey comparing business and human relations strategies used in the 'overseas Chinese’regions of Taiwan and Hong Kong
• the theory of cooperative and competitive conflict
• management education's role in the continuing economic reforms occurring in the People's Republic of China

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780789011572
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/21/2001
Series:	Journal of Teaching in International Business
Pages:	110
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.38(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Contents

• Introduction
• Anthropology and International Business Research Methods in DBA Teaching: Frameworks for Cultural Awareness
• Teaching Business Ethics in Hong Kong: Challenges and Response
• The Teaching of Human Resource Management Strategies and Practices in Taiwan and Hong Kong
• Conflict Management Training in China: The Value of Cooperative Conflict Theory
• The Challenge of Teaching Human Resource Management in China: Enabling Effective Management Education in the Context of Economic Reform
• Index
• Reference Notes Included

Editorial Reviews

This collection of five essays explores challenges and opportunities for management educators working in the countries of Greater China and in Asian countries where there is a large Chinese ethnic population. Areas including program and course development, delivery of programs and course materials, and the development of instructors are discussed. Whiteley is chair of International Human Resources at the Graduate School of Business, Curtin University of Technology, Australia. The book has been co-published simultaneously as , vol. 12, no. 2, 2001. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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