1. 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

2. We will finish early
so there’ll be
plenty of time for
your questions

3. Exam Topics
6. Managing change in international business
7. International leadership and management
9. Managing human resources on a global
scale
10.International organisation design and
structure
11. Managing knowledge resources
12.International operations management

4. 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

5. 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

6. Exam
Plans:
Back to
basics

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. Interesting Conclusions
11. Managing knowledge resources
Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

16. Answering Exam Questions
Evaluate, Discuss or Compare
• Explain two or more different viewpoints
• Look at disadvantages or advantages
• Identify the most important things

17. “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:
Emerging
Sustainability
Market Post GFC
and CSR
Economies

18. 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

19. 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

20. Exam and
Group Report
Consultation Time
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