Postgraduate Programme and Module Handbook 2024-2025
Module BUSI45J15: Consulting
Department: Management and Marketing
BUSI45J15: Consulting
| Type | Tied | Level | 4 | Credits | 15 | Availability | Available in 2024/2025 | Module Cap |
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| Tied to | N2P109 |
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| Tied to | N2P209 |
| Tied to | N2P309 |
| Tied to | N2P609 |
| Tied to | N2PA09 |
| Tied to | BUSIxxxx MSc Management (Management Consulting) |
| Tied to | N5K609 |
Prerequisites
- None.
Corequisites
- None.
Excluded Combination of Modules
- None.
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 nature of consultancy
- Consultant Role and Responsibilities
- The Consultancy Cycle
- Organisational Change
- Consultancy Capabilities
- Ethical Consultancy and Professionalism
- Careers in Consultancy
Learning Outcomes
Subject-specific Knowledge:
- By the end of the module students should:
- Have a critical understanding of the different roles and responsibilities of the consultant;
- Have a critical understanding of a consultancy cycle as a way to structure a consulting assignment;
- Have a critical understanding of the ethical and professional elements of consultancy.
Subject-specific Skills:
- By the end of the module students should:
- Have the ability to apply the consultancy cycle to scope, plan and manage a consulting assignment;
- Have the ability to apply knowledge to explore an organisational issue and identify opportunities for improvements.
Key Skills:
- The ability to critically identify and evaluate key issues within an organisation;
- Planning, organisational and time management skills;
- Problem solving and analytical skills;
- Skills of effective self-management including motivation, self-starting, individual initiative and enterprise;
- Ability to think creatively about organisational issues and interventions to address them;
- Skills to present findings and recommendations to key stakeholders in an organisation.
Modes of Teaching, Learning and Assessment and how these contribute to the learning outcomes of the module
- The lectures and seminars will introduce a consultancy framework and key elements of the consulting toolkit. They will also consider managing key stakeholder relationships including those with clients.
- The focus in the seminars is based upon "learning by doing", so that participants can work in groups on activities and issues that are representative of those undertaken by consultants.
Teaching Methods and Learning Hours
| Activity | Number | Frequency | Duration | Total/Hours | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lectures | 10 | 1 per week | 2 hours | 20 | |
| Seminars | 4 | 1 per fortnight | 1 hour | 4 | ■ |
| Preparation, Reading, Data Collection and Independent Study | 126 | ||||
| Total | 150 |
Summative Assessment
| Component: Group Assignment | Component Weighting: 100% | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Element | Length / duration | Element Weighting | Resit Opportunity |
| Students conduct a live consultancy assignment and prepare a video which addresses key questions which are set as part of the assignment. The aim of this assignment is that students apply the knowledge and skills covered during the module | 15 minutes | 100% | Same |
Formative Assessment:
The formative assessment will consist of a 15-minute group presentation consisting of 3-5 slides.
■ 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