Module SOCI40430: Management in Community Settings

Department: Sociology

SOCI40430: Management in Community Settings

Prerequisites

Corequisites

Excluded Combination of Modules

• None

Aims

• The module will provide students with the opportunity to develop knowledge and skills in the theory and practice of management in community and youth work settings.

Content

• management theory, organisation and bureaucracy, including feminist perspectives;
• personnel management: recruitment and selection of staff, legal responsibilities of employers; a critical appraisal of relevant management styles; team building techniques; staff supervision and appraisal procedures in human resource management;
• physical resource management: efficient and effective management of buildings, premises and equipment;
• financial management: administration of finance, budgeting, financial forecasting, business plans; fundraising.
• strategic management: strategic planning and decision making; developing policies and procedures; developing and implementing policy, including equal opportunities policies; monitoring and evaluation of service delivery, quality assurance;
• change management: approaches to change management: systems theory, intervention approaches to change management; importance of systems and stake holders;
• managing partnership and interagency work.

Learning Outcomes

• By the end of the module students should be able to demonstrate:
• 1. an ability to review critically various theoretical approaches to the management of organisations and to evaluate their usefulness in community and youth work settings.
• 2. knowledge of the sources of funding available from a range of public and private organisations for community and youth work and the relationship between taxation and funding at national and local levels.
• 3. an understanding of human resource management legislation in relation to the management of voluntary and statutory community and youth organisations.
• 4. an understanding of and ability to use key human resource management skills in optimising the effectiveness of service delivery.
• 5. financial management skills in relation to the funding and competent accountancy of finances in relation to private and public sector expectations.
• 6. an ability to determine the effective use of physical resources with particular reference to the acquisition of property, management of premises and equipment.
• 7. knowledge of quality assurance methods and the ability to use monitoring and evaluation techniques with a view to improving performance and quality of service delivery.
• 8. knowledge and critical awareness of the imperatives for change in the public and voluntary sector.
• 9. a critical understanding of the opportunities for the development and management of community and youth work projects within a contract culture,
• 10. knowledge and critical understanding of theoretical approaches to the management of change and development in organisations.
• 11. in-depth knowledge of at least one theoretical model of the management of change.

• an ability to develop appropriate change intervention strategies according to the context, problem and change objectives.
• an ability to undertake strategic planning and policy development, including the development and implementation of Equal Opportunities policies.

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

• the modes of teaching, learning and assessment will include: lectures, seminars and group discussions; reflective recordings; practical exercises including case studies; independent reading; assessed written work involving a study of an agency and an assessed oral presentation;
• the practical exercises, agency analysis and group work will help develop students' abilities to apply theory to practice and to work together as a group;
• the assessed presentation will help develop skills in communicating the results of their work to peers.

Teaching Methods and Learning Hours

Summative Assessment

Formative Assessment:

Seminar presentation.

■ Attendance at all activities marked with this symbol will be monitored. Students who fail to attend these activities, or to complete the summative or formative assessment specified above, will be subject to the procedures defined in the University's General Regulation V, and may be required to leave the University