2nd Place Victory for School of Business Honours class in Global Exercise
Fifteen postgraduate students from the School of Marketing and International Business were rated second out of 51 universities across 27 countries for their 'quality and input of effort' in X-culture, an international training programme.
Fifteen postgraduate students from Victoria Business School are celebrating their outstanding performance in a global exercise.
The students were rated second out of 51 universities across 27 countries for their 'quality and input of effort' in X-culture, an international training programme which requires participants to develop a business proposal for an international company.
Each student was placed in a global team and given six weeks to complete their business proposal across multiple time zones and cyberspace.
Course coordinator Dr Cheryl Rivers says students gained a lot from first-hand experience working with people from other cultures.
"It‘s one thing for me to tell them that culture influences behaviours and expectations -- it's a quantum leap for them to figure out why someone is doing something they don‘t understand or agree with and then change their own behaviour to influence them."
The students were evaluated on their effort and contribution by their teammates, and on the quality of the final report by all the instructors who had students in that team.
Dr Rivers is especially proud that the top three performing students in the class, Lauren Campbell, Annie De‘Ath and Rob Humphrys, come from three different disciplines in the faculty: Tourism, Human Resource Management and International Business.
"Figuring out how to work effectively with people from different cultures is essential for all our graduates, regardless of their discipline."
This is the first year Victoria University students have participated in the project, and Dr Rivers is keen to sign up again next year.
"It was so successful, I'm thinking it might become a regular feature of the course."
The exercise was part of IBUS404 Cross-cultural Management, which is offered by the School of Marketing and International Business.
IBUS404 Cross-cultural Management students celebrate their performance in global exercise