International Management

Profession

Modern business needs specialists who are able to create profitable companies and successful products, see unique opportunities and work out strategies for development in the face of constant unpredictable changes in the international business environment. Technologies, products, consumer preferences, fashion and the world as a whole are changing, but the need of companies to carry out management activities, achieve goals and ensure competitiveness remains unchanged. A manager is this type of a specialist, so the demand for qualified managers, especially at the international level, in various sectors of the economy has remained consistently high for decades. The programme is aimed at young people whose professional ambitions are related to the management of a company in all its manifestations, at those who would like to make a career in an international corporation, and deal with the solution of production, commercial, financial, marketing, personnel issues of an international business organization and management.

Educational Process

Students during their studies receive relevant knowledge, skills and abilities in various areas of international management. Along with general economic and management courses, students study the most promising management technologies within such courses as “Strategic Management”, “Project Management”, “Innovation Management”, “Change Management”, “Management Theory”, “Theory of Organization and Organizational Behavior”, “Logistics of International Business”, “Leadership”, “International Commercial Operations”, “Human Resource Management”, “Business Models in the Digital Economy”, ” “Blockchain”, “Cross-cultural management”, etc. This programme involves in-depth study of:
— the modern theory and practice of management organization in international companies;
— the content and technology of effective international operations;
— the principles of work in international markets for goods, services and capital;
— the specifics of personnel management in the international environment;
— the modern methods of analysis of international practices and strategies in a competitive environment.
Within the framework of the programme, students master the skills of both group and individual work, develop leadership qualities and the ability to work in a team during the analysis of problem situations and real business cases.
In order to get acquainted with the peculiarities of the foreign management environment, students undergo a professional internship abroad. The partners of the programme for this purpose are universities of Great Britain, France, Germany, Spain, China, South Korea.

Practice

A practice-oriented approach to learning is one of the most important values of the International Management programme. Managerial competencies cannot be formed by studying only theory, so internship in commercial organizations is an integral part of the educational process. The main bases of internship are large international and national companies in various fields and sectors of the economy that are interested in attracting graduates to work.
Taking into account the peculiarities of study in the Russian-British programme with the possibility of obtaining a second diploma from Napier University (Edinburgh, UK), students undergo a linguistic and cultural internship: in the first year at Napier University in Edinburgh (UK), students study and improve English for 3 weeks, get acquainted with the foreign management environment; in the second year at the German Language Institute in the cities Tübingen or Bamberg (Germany), students undergo an internship in German. In their senior years students get acquainted with the largest corporations in South Korea. For pre-graduation internship students are sent to leading international corporations and companies in Russia.

Career

Graduates of the programme focus primarily on working in companies that operate in international markets, carrying out foreign direct investments, having representative offices, branches, subsidiaries and joint ventures abroad. These can be enterprises of any organizational and legal form (commercial, non-commercial, state), carrying out international commercial and non-commercial operations, which need full-time employees professional in laws and trends in the development of the world economy, who are fluent in major foreign languages and are able to maintain effective relationships in a cross-cultural environment.