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School: Business and Law

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  • Unit Title

    Leading Across Cultures

  • Unit Code

    MBA6160

  • Year

    2026

  • Enrolment Period

    2

  • Version

    1

  • Credit Points

    20

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online

  • Unit Coordinator

    A/Prof Uma JOGULU

Description

In contemporary global business environments, leaders must navigate diverse cultural, institutional, and ethical landscapes to drive organisational success. Leading Across Cultures develops cultural intelligence for effective leadership. This unit provides tools to lead effectively in multicultural settings. Grounded in cultural intelligence, and leadership models, the unit examines how national and organisational cultures shape business practice, communication, decision making, ethics, and conflict resolution in the globalised environment. The unit develops skills for current and future leaders in the global business and hybrid work cultures to gain adaptive leadership strategies to thrive in multicultural settings and to lead organisations with applied global leadership skills.

Equivalent Rule

Equivalent to MBA6150

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Critically evaluate how culture shapes the selection and effective application of inclusive leadership approaches in global business contexts.
  2. Assess ethical and institutional challenges in global business environments that influence inclusive leadership.
  3. Apply culturally informed interpersonal communication skills to support inclusive global teamwork.
  4. Apply reflective insights to cultivate a global leadership mindset.
  5. Apply leadership frameworks to address authentic cross-cultural business problems.

Unit Content

  1. Inclusive leadership and cultural intelligence.
  2. Key cultural dimensions and frameworks.
  3. Understanding cultural intelligence: awareness of stereotypes, biases and assumptions.
  4. Cross-cultural communication, negotiation, and conflict resolution for leaders.
  5. Leadership theories in global contexts: transformational, situational, and inclusive leadership styles.
  6. Navigating ethical and responsible global leadership.
  7. Leadership and diversity management in global organisations.

Additional Learning Experience Information

The unit will make use of a mixed-mode approach to delivery that includes a mixture of face-to-face plenary sessions, on-line readings and activities, and self-paced work. Industry leaders will feature as guest lecturers, enabling learners to make the connections between theory and practical application. The content will include knowledge and skill-building by way of self-discovery, improving self-awareness and the application of learning in different, diverse and cross-cultural contexts. The ultimate aim is to build individual and professional capacity.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
PresentationIndividual presentation40%
ExaminationExam60%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
PresentationIndividual presentation40%
ExaminationExam60%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

  • Plagiarism: Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).
  • Unauthorised collaboration (collusion): Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).
  • Contract cheating: Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.
  • Cheating in an exam: Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment Procedure - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment Procedure - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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