This module provides an introduction to and overview of management and management practice for graduate students from various disciplines, all non-business graduates. The module focuses on contemporary issues and emerging trends in management, and will provide students with an opportunity to integrate the knowledge acquired in other modules on the programme and to review and evaluate current issues facing organisations and managers. Students will be provided with an opportunity to demonstrate the necessary leadership and team working skills relating to management practice that is expected of postgraduate level studies. The aim of the module is to provide the student with an opportunity to identify some of the current issues which organisations and managers are facing in the business environment. Students will be given the opportunity to critically evaluate some of these issues in detail in a specific business or organisational context.
Given the nature of this topic it is important to note that this module is designed to address contemporary management issues which have a current organisational and managerial interest
Indicative content is provided below.
Management Theories and Management Practice – Overview of the main aspects of management, including overview of historic developments in management practice.
Ethics, Social Responsibility and Governance – Overview of the main aspects of ethical behaviour, ethics in the workplace, uses of codes of practice; social responsibility – perspectives and trends; corporate governance – roles and responsibilities.
Business Environment, Organisational Culture and Diversity in the workplace – Importance of understanding the external environment and competitive advantage; customer-driven organisations; quality-driven organisations; organisational culture, symbolic leadership; multi-cultural organisations and diversity; challenges faced by minorities and women; managing diversity.
Global dimensions of management – international management and globalisation; international business challenges; managing across cultures.
Entrepreneurship and small business management – characteristics of entrepreneurs, new venture creation entrepreneurship and business development. Innovation; Intrapreneurship.
Managing in Advanced Technology Markets - Information, decision making and problem solving – IT and the changing workplace; information and managerial decisions, issues in managerial decision making; problem solving.
Strategic Management – what is strategy? Strategic management, planning and goal setting; the strategic management process; strategies used by organisations; strategy formulation; strategy implementation.
Future of Work - organisation structures, organising trends and practices, empowerment and centralisation/ decentralisation. Organisation design and work processes.
Human Resource Management – processes, attracting a quality workforce; developing a quality workforce.
Leadership – nature of leadership; leadership traits and behaviours; contingency approaches to leadership; current issues in leadership development.
Motivation – Theory and practice. Motivation and the new workforce.
Individual behaviour and performance – understanding people at work; work attitudes and performance; job design; alternative work arrangements.
Teams and teamwork. Teams in organisations; trends in the use of teams; how teams work; decision making in teams; leading high performance teams.
Communication and interpersonal skills – the communication process; conflict and negotiation, emotional intelligence
Organisational Change and Organisational Development – an overview of organisational change; leading planned change; organisational development; stress and stress management.
Current and emerging trends in management.
A combination of lectures, workshops, videos, group work and guest presentations will be used to ensure alignment with the learning outcomes and the assessment as set out below. The instructor acts as a facilitator, balancing the needs of the student to acquire the necessary knowledge of the discipline with the requirement to nurture a competence to apply these concepts and make informed decisions in a real world context.
| Module Content & Assessment | |
|---|---|
| Assessment Breakdown | % |
| Formal Examination | 50 |
| Other Assessment(s) | 50 |