Managing international tools

Companies operating on an international basis implement their projects abroad with partners on-site and with multi-cultural project teams. Often the management faces problems especially regarding the control of organisational, personnel and technical resources when organising international projects for the first time. Lack of international experience, cultural differences and communication barriers increase the risks during the project. Also in Germany more and more often international project work becomes the rule e.g. by co-operations with foreign sub-suppliers or distribution partners or by increasing employment of foreign qualified personnel. All project teams have in common that they often have to fulfil novel and complex tasks. International project management is an appropriate intersectoral and interdisciplinary tool to manage external and internal projects successfully both at home and abroad.

The participants will know project management as an international standardised working method. They will understand the basic principles and possibilities and will be aware of problems, risks and limits of international project management. By means of single case analyses the participants will be able to integrate the newly acquired knowledge into their personal daily project routine and to implement it in case of need.

Background and impetus of international projects

Types of international projects
Internal projects, External projects, Hybrid forms

Procedural problems
Social-organisational requirements to organisational and personnel development in-company, Change Management – Problems of on-site management, Bureaucracy as a challenge in international projects, Legal aspects in international projects

Multicultural differences as a challenge
Basic principles of intercultural management, Managerial problems in international projects, Controlling of attitude to work and motivation focussing on the target-group, Conflict management in international projects