The "Global Project" : embedding global skill sets within management curriculum

Global scale perspectives and global mobility skills are fast becoming crucial to effective business strategy and operations, decision making and an essential ingredient for professional effectiveness in contemporary business and management practice. As a result these perspectives and skills sets have become a key issue in the education and training of university graduates and professionals. The paper will explore trends in international mobility and international HRM; developments in business education; developments in the Australian context; global skill sets (global competencies, cultural literacy cultural intelligence, and global mobility skills); and the global learning framework before introducing the concept of the “Global Project”. The “Global Project” is presented as a pedagogic approach to embedding global skill sets specifically within management and business curriculum.