Module BUSI45J15: Consulting

Department: Management and Marketing

BUSI45J15: Consulting

Tied To

• N2P109: Management
• N2P209: Management (Finance)
• N2P409: Management (Human Resource Management)
• N2P509: Management (Consulting and Organisational Change)(not recruiting 2016-17) (see Postgraduate Handbook 2016-2017 for details)
• N2P609: Management (International Business)
• N2P809: Management (Business Ethics) (see Postgraduate Handbook 2018-2019 for details)
• N5K609: Marketing

Pre-requisites

Corequisites

Excluded Combinations

Aims

• To develop students' abilities to apply their knowledge and skills to explore problematic situations, and identify and gain agreement to actions to enable improvement.

Content

• The role of the consultant;
• The client relationship;
• The engagement as a project;
• Exploring the problematic situation;
• Influencing change;
• Evaluating an assignment and the team.

Learning Outcomes

• By the end of the module students should:
• Have a critical understanding of the different roles of the consultant;
• Have a critical understanding of a project framework as a way to structure a consulting engagement.

• By the end of the module students should:
• Have the ability to apply a project framework to scope, plan and manage a consulting engagement;
• Have the ability to apply knowledge to explore a problematic situation and identify opportunities for improvements.

• By the end of the module students should have:
• Ability to think critically and creatively and to argue coherently;
• Planning, organisational and time management skills;
• Problem solving and analytical skills;
• Skills of effective self-management including motivation, self-starting, individual initiative and enterprise.

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

• The lectures and seminars will introduce a project framework and key elements of the project / consulting toolkit. They will also consider managing the client — consultant relationship.
• The focus in the seminars is based upon ‘learning by doing’, so that participants can work in groups on simulated consulting activities that are representative of those undertaken by consultants in the business context.

Teaching Methods and Learning Hours

Summative Assessment

Formative Assessment

Students will get formative feedback throughout their seminar-based work. The feedback will provided during the seminar and will take the form of a critique and review of the work that has been prepared and presented by the students. The feedback will be given in a manner that all of the cohort can benefit from the feedback and advice given to the group that has presented.