MGMT30004 · Managing Globally
The Complete Exam Bible · S1 2026Managing Globally
Managing Globally is a third-year capstone in international management: how firms scan the global environment, choose and implement a cross-border strategy, organise and staff it, and lead diverse people across cultures. The subject runs on a small set of named frameworks — PESTLE/CAGE, integration–responsiveness, stakeholder theory, Hofstede & GLOBE, the 5-stage negotiation process, EPRG — each tied to a theorist and a live case (A2 Milk, Allbirds, TikTok, Rio Tinto). The final exam is 50% of your grade and closed-book, so this guide teaches each framework to exam standard: name it, name who proposed it, then apply it to the company in front of you.
What MGMT30004 covers
Eleven teaching topics → one name-and-apply exam map. Each links to its free chapter guide.
How MGMT30004 is assessed
| Component | Weight | Format |
|---|---|---|
| Final exam | 50% | 2 hours, closed-book, on-campus digital (lockdown browser) · 4 scenario questions × 25 pts, each with Part A + Part B |
| Group organisational analysis | 15% | Group of 3–4, four staged parts on one self-chosen global firm (Topics 1–4) |
| Individual recommendations report | 15% | Consulting-style recommendation for the subject's client, A2 Milk — specific, contextualised application |
| In-class & online contribution | 20% | Tutorial participation (10%) + online-learning / discussion (10%) across the semester — confirm the exact split in your subject guide |
The name-and-apply scenario — how a closed-book answer earns marks
- +3(a) Scan the risk — name the framework. Use PESTLE/PELT for the macro-scan and assess political and economic risk at the right level (global → regional → national → operating). Name one real 2020s force.
- +3(b) Posture — the Integration–Responsiveness grid (Bartlett & Ghoshal). A born-global digital firm usually leans transnational ("glocal"); justify from the actual integration and responsiveness pressures, not the default "transnational is best".
- +3(b) Entry mode — let CAGE drive it (Ghemawat). High cultural/administrative distance → a lower-commitment, partnered mode (export, franchising, JV) to cut the liability of foreignness; low distance + validated demand → you can justify wholly-owned.
- +3(c) People risk — name the team and HRM framework. A remote cross-border team is 4D (Haas & Mortensen): diagnose which "D" bites; recommend an EPRG staffing approach (PCN/HCN/TCN) aligned to the strategy and host context.
Key terms
- Integration–responsiveness (I–R) framework
- Bartlett & Ghoshal's grid plotting a firm on two pressures — global integration (efficiency, scale, central control) against local responsiveness (adapting to local tastes and rules). The four quadrants are international, global, multidomestic and transnational.
- CAGE distance
- Ghemawat's framework for measuring how distant a target country is across four dimensions — Cultural, Administrative, Geographic and Economic. The bigger the relevant distances, the harder the entry and the stronger the case for a low-commitment or partnered mode.
- Stakeholder theory
- Freeman's (1984) view that a firm should weigh the interests of everyone it affects, not just shareholders — the spine of the sustainability topic and the contrast to Friedman's shareholder-primacy view. It recurs in organising, negotiation and IHRM.
- Hofstede's value dimensions
- Six dimensions for comparing national cultures — power distance, uncertainty avoidance, individualism–collectivism, masculinity–femininity, long/short-term orientation and indulgence–restraint. In this subject you learn the dimensions; the exam supplies any country detail it needs.
- EPRG staffing approaches
- Perlmutter's four HR orientations a multinational can take — ethnocentric (HQ control), polycentric (localise), geocentric (best person regardless of nationality) and regiocentric (standardise within a region). The orientation drives who staffs key roles (PCN/HCN/TCN).
MGMT30004 FAQ
Is MGMT30004 hard?
It is conceptually broad rather than technical — eleven topics, each with its own named frameworks and theorists, all examined closed-book. The difficulty is breadth and recall under time: you must keep every framework's name and author warm and be able to apply it to a fresh fictitious company on the spot.
How is MGMT30004 assessed?
The final exam is 50% — two hours, closed-book, on your own laptop under a lockdown browser, four scenario questions each split into Part A and Part B. The rest is a group organisational analysis (about 15%), an individual recommendations report on the subject's client A2 Milk (about 15%), and in-class plus online contribution (about 20%). Confirm this year's exact split in your subject guide.
What is on the MGMT30004 final exam?
Four scenario questions, each a new fictitious company tied to a different topic: the global business environment (PESTLE, risk), global strategy and entry modes (I–R, CAGE), implementation and alliances, sustainability and CSR, organising, cross-cultural management (Hofstede/GLOBE), negotiation, global teams and leadership, and international HRM (EPRG). You name the framework, name who proposed it, then apply it — no citations required, but the framework names are mandatory.
Do I need to memorise the Hofstede country scores?
No. The subject is explicit that you learn the dimensions, not the scores — a pure-culture exam question supplies the cultural information it needs. The mark is for naming the relevant dimension (e.g. power distance) and reasoning from it to a concrete management practice.
Is using AskSia for MGMT30004 cheating?
No. AskSia is a study reference written in our own words — we host none of your lecturer's files, and Sia teaches you the method to earn the marks; it does not complete or sit your assessments.
How to study for the exam
Build a two-column recall sheet for all eleven topics: framework name + theorist on the left, the one-line application move on the right (PESTLE/CAGE, integration–responsiveness = Bartlett & Ghoshal, stakeholder theory = Freeman, Hofstede/GLOBE, the 5-stage negotiation process, EPRG = Perlmutter). Because the exam is closed-book and rewards name-and-apply, drill the move of taking a fresh fictitious company and answering "which framework, whose, and how does it apply here?" Anchor each framework to the subject's live cases (A2 Milk, Allbirds, TikTok, Rio Tinto / Juukan Gorge) so you always have a worked example to lean on. The continuous pieces reward depth on one real firm; the exam rewards breadth across all of them — keep every framework warm.
