NUCB's mission is to educate innovative and ethical leaders who possess a ʻFrontier Spiritʼ and to create knowledge that advances business and society. As one of the core courses of a leading globally engaged school, this course aims to underpin NUCB's mission and future purpose.

The course explores the interaction between organizational behavior and work in world business. Students should possess multicultural transferable skills that develop an appetite for reflective, adaptive, and collaborative learning. This course is designed to provide students with a thorough understanding of the issues in organizational management and the institutional and contextual factors and realities surrounding organizational management.

By taking part in this course, students are expected to develop the capacity for:

1) reviewing the theories, patterns, behavior and experiences of organizational behavior among various actors in the global economy
2) developing the capacity to critically reflect on the character of the current organizational behavior and management
3) debating systematically with multi-sided understanding of organizational management.

*本学の教育ミッションを具現化する形で設定されています。

Upon completing this course students should be able to get:

Knowledge and understanding of:
• Theories, models, frameworks, tasks, and roles associated with organizational management;
• The tasks and activities of organizational management in the global economy;

Intellectual skills of:
• Effective qualitative problem solving and decision making;
• The ability to create, evaluate, and assess a range of options, together with the capacity to apply ideas and knowledge to a range of businesses and other situations;

Professional practical skills:
• Qualitative skills including the ability to work with case studies
• The ability to present data and arguments within a time constraint
• Self-awareness, openness, and sensitivity to diversity in terms of people, cultures, businesses, and management issues

Transferable (key) skills:
• Developing an appetitive for reflective, adaptive, and collaborative learning;
• Interpersonal skills for effective listening, negotiating, persuasion, and presentation.

教育手法 Teaching Method		% of Course Time
インプット型 Traditional		10 %
参加者中心型 Participant-Centered Learning	ケースメソッド Case Method	90 %
	フィールドメソッド Field Method	0 %
合計 Total		100 %

Course prerequisites
Participants should allow at least 3 hours of preparation time per case.
A laptop computer is required for electronic distribution of handouts on the day of the class.
Even though this course does not use a textbook, the students will learn theories, notions, and models in the field of international management.

Preparation report
Students should familiarize themselves with the cases and be ready for classroom debates.
Student should submit the preparation report (i.e., (1) critical understanding of the cases (1 page); and (2) expected key takeaways from the cases (1 page)).
Submission method : via Google Classroom.
Submission deadline: Before class begins (7:00am each class day).

Final Report
Final report will be announced ahead of the submission deadline to give you some time to familiarize yourself with the questions that are related to your active learning during the classes.
Submission method: via Google Classroom.

*It is your responsibility to familiarize yourself fully with University Regulations concerning plagiarism and other unacceptable and unfair practices.
*Some cases may be changed before the course starts.

*成績は下記該当項目を基に決定されます。
*クラス貢献度合計はコールドコールと授業内での挙手発言の合算値です。

講師用内規準拠 Method of Assessment	Weights
コールドコール Cold Call	30 %
授業内での挙手発言 Class Contribution	40 %
クラス貢献度合計 Class Contribution Total	70 %
予習レポート Preparation Report	10 %
小テスト Quizzes / Tests	0 %
シミュレーション成績 Simulation	0 %
ケース試験 Case Exam	0 %
最終レポート Final Report	20 %
期末試験 Final Exam	0 %
参加者による相互評価 Peer Assessment	0 %
合計 Total	100 %

評価の留意事項　Notes on Evaluation Criteria

Preparation before class and active participation in both small group discussion and open class discussion are expected. The preparation report and the final report will be graded by the comprehensiveness and depth of arguments.

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There is no set text but the course will draw upon contemporary research and writing.

Teaching this course for the first time.

Refereed Articles

• (2025) Japan's militarization: from reactive to proactive antimilitarist strategic culture. RSIS Theses
• (2024) Civil-Military Relations and Antimilitarism in Japan After the End of the Cold War. International Journal of Military History and Historiography Advance Articles 2468-3302