GMS 200 Lecture 2: Week 2 GMS 200

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Global Management Studies
• Course: GMS 200
• Professor: Ado Abdoulkadre

Document Summary

Week 2: gms 200 introduction to global management. Composed of mid-term exam and final exam. Global simulation game: will be uploading registration codes. Read pdf file on d2l and do the quiz to prepare for the game. Before coming to class, read the chapter for that week. If you do not have information, you cannot make a decision. The more precise the info is, the more clearly you can make a decision. Knowledge worker: someone using their intelligence/soft skills in order to work; very tiny part of physical activity e. g. a manager in a company. Not a knowledge worker could be someone working in an airport, they have to do physical labour in order to do their job, not knowledge based. Todays working environment is focused mostly on knowledge workers. Intellectual capital- shared knowledge of a workforce that can be used to create wealth: the combination of all the workers knowledge in a company.