Module BUSI4AS10: Careers and Professional Skills Development

Department: Management and Marketing

BUSI4AS10: Careers and Professional Skills Development

Tied To

• H1KG09: Energy Engineering Management

Pre-requisites

Corequisites

Excluded Combinations

Aims

• To provide and develop the skills and competencies required to be employed in energy engineering management positions.

Content

• Historical perspectives on management and engineering development;
• Foundations of management development: Strategy, culture, systems, structures and learning;
• Managerial effectiveness and organisational learning;
• Management development audits and measuring management performance;
• Professional standards and qualifications;
• Development and training strategies;
• Career progression and management;
• Coaching, counselling and mentoring;
• Personal development and auditing personal effectiveness;
• Transforming learning into practice and appraising performance;
• CV development.

Learning Outcomes

• Understanding of management concepts.
• Knowledge of development and training strategies for individuals and organisations.
• Understanding of effective leadership management evaluation.
• Knowledge of how to recognise the skills and development needs of others within an organisational context.

• Ability to apply concepts and techniques of management development to their own career development.
• Ability to critically appraise key concepts and techniques of management development.
• Ability appraise own skills and development needs.

• Ability to communicate effectively own qualities, skills and experience.
• Effective written communication.
• Strategic and operational planning, organisation and time management.
• Management problem solving, evaluation and analysis.
• Personal initiative.

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

• The module will be delivered through a combination of learning material, self-assessed exercises and a summative portfolio assignment on key topical issues, together with guided reading and learning.
• The assessment portfolio is built up over the course and students are encouraged to reflect on the links between different modules and their professional development.
• Each module element is delivered as a discrete unit, equivalent to a lecture or short lecture block. A unit normally consists of specially written material, directed reading, reflection through self-assessed assignments and guidance for further reading.

Teaching Methods and Learning Hours

Summative Assessment

Formative Assessment