Reflective Report on Managing in International Business

Running Head: REFLECTIVE REPORT
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Management
International Business Management
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4/28/2019

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Contents
Managing in International Business...........................................................................................2
Part A.....................................................................................................................................2
Description.........................................................................................................................2
Feelings..............................................................................................................................3
Evaluation..........................................................................................................................3
Analysis..............................................................................................................................3
Conclusion..........................................................................................................................3
Action Plan.........................................................................................................................3
Part B......................................................................................................................................4
Strengths.............................................................................................................................4
Weaknesses........................................................................................................................5
Opportunities......................................................................................................................6
Threats................................................................................................................................6
Part C: Action Plan.................................................................................................................7
References..................................................................................................................................8

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Managing in International Business
Part A
This part of self-reflective report is focused on providing a critical perspective of my group
work, its procedure and outcomes. In order to reflect upon the teamwork which I have done
while studying this module, the Gibb’s reflective framework will be utilised so that reflection
by doing can provide a life-long learning to me (Gibbs, 2016). The six main stages of my
reflection over team-work are as follows:
Description
Through working with the group, I got to know the meaning as well as significance of team-
working skills within an international business management context. I worked with the group
so that we all can learn team-harmony and team-building for especially managing in
international business (Lubeck et al., 2013). Initially, I was not sure about how team-working
skills build and evolve during working in a group (Hill, 2008). Besides, my views about
working in a team were completely opposite than the present ones. In this way, it was a great
experience of working with my team and hence it offered me huge learning related to my
future career development.

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Source: (Gibbs, 2016)
Feelings
In this context, my feelings have been continuously changing while working in a team. I felt
the presence of different cultural backgrounds and values as I had to interact with diverse
cultured team-mates (Berlin et al., 2012). In the beginning of the team project, I was quite
confident about my skill-set required for the task but when my team started working on the
project then I realised that my attributes’, skills and qualities were not enough for managing
in an international business context. Hence, during group tasks I faced challenges related to
my professional communication (Markovich, 2018). In this way, my feelings were constantly
changing and updating since the beginning to the end of my team-work project (Belbin,
2012).
Evaluation
Here, in this section of reflective writing I would like to narrate the positive as well as
negative aspects of the lessons learnt from team building, team-work, communication,
conflicts and the presentation. One of the positive aspects of my team-work was my updated
professional communication skills (Cavusgil et al., 2014). While we planned our tasks,
prepared and executed all of them then our communication skills got strengthened. Hence, I
learnt conflicts management skills with those of presentation skills. The challenges, which I
faced during my group work, include intercultural communication, maintaining team-
harmony and preparing for the presentation (Colenso, 2012).
Analysis
I analysed the whole situation of teamwork with my group in a way that an importance of
Belbin’s team roles as well as Tuckman’s stages of group formation has been successfully
demonstrated (Belbin, 2012).
Conclusion
I analysed that if I were to do it again, then I would be doing many differently. I would have
used updated knowledge over intercultural competence and communication. I would have
used my cultivated professional communication skills with the help of practice comprising
activities related to writing, reading and speaking within an academic context.