Module BUSI56E30: ORGANISATIONAL APPLICATION

Department: Business School (Business)

BUSI56E30: ORGANISATIONAL APPLICATION

Tied To

• N1KE12: Business and Management (HBOS) (see Postgraduate Handbook 2010-2011 for details)
• N2KE12: Business and Management (Consortium) (see Postgraduate Handbook 2010-2011 for details)
• N2KF12: Business and Management (Vertex) (see Postgraduate Handbook 2010-2011 for details)

Pre-requisites

Corequisites

Excluded Combinations

Aims

• To provide students with the opportunity to put their knowledge and understanding into practice by conducting an audit of a local company.
• To provide students with the opportunity to enhance their teamworking and interpersonal skills.

Content

• Business Profiling: developing a framework for the efficient and holistic audit of an operating business. Students conduct the audit at a local company whose business issues are relevant to their own organisation and give a presentation to DBS staff and representatives from the company.
• Learning and Development Planning: this element facilitates the awareness of students’ own values, strengths and areas for development through the acquisition of competencies in motivation; leadership; teamwork; communication; creativity and entrepreneurship; Emotional Intelligence; continuous learning; and delegation.
• Applied Management Research: this element provides an overview of key research techniques including literature reviews; questionnaire design; interviewing; focus groups; case study research; structuring research methodology; analysing quantitative and qualitative data.

Learning Outcomes

• By the end of the module, students should be able to:
• understand the concept of business holism;
• understand the role and significance of congruency and consistency as attributes of business structure;
• critically understand prevailing business and management issues within their own organisation;
• critically understand their own strengths, challenges and learning approaches.

• By the end of the module, students should be able to:
• develop a framework for organisational auditing;
• develop a future learning plan;
• appreciate how to transfer learning back into the organisation.

Modes of Teaching, Learning and Assessment and how these contribute to the learning outcomes of the module

• A variety of teaching and learning methods will be used, principally seminars, group work and facilitated discussion sessions. A central feature of this module is a company visit and audit, plus presentation of findings. All sessions have a high participation element, and an emphasis on action-learning.
• Assessment of this module is by written group project, group presentation and individual learning commentary, designed to: test the acquisition and articulation of knowledge; test conceptual understanding and skills of application and interpretation within the business context; and test skills of oral and interpersonal communication and teamworking.

Teaching Methods and Learning Hours

Summative Assessment

Formative Assessment

Feedback on group and individual activities undertaken during contact hours.