2014/15 Taught Postgraduate Module Catalogue

LUBS5229M Management in Practice

15 creditsClass Size: 200

Module manager: Dr. Richard Tunstall
Email: R.Tunstall@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) View Timetable

Year running 2014/15

This module is not approved as an Elective

Module summary

This module is designed to complement academic study on your programme by exploring how theories translate into management practice and personal development. The module will focus on developing your knowledge and practice of management, team working, academic study and self-development. The emphasis will be on practical skills, informed by seminal and current academic thinking on management.Delivery will take place throughout the first two semesters to ensure that the issues raised inform all of your activities on the programme as a whole and support your personal development. The module will involve a number of practical individual and team activities around the core areas of study and will draw on input from a variety of sources, including academic and external experts.

Objectives

This module aims to enable students to develop their academic potential, employability, global and cultural insight and ethical awareness in order to enhance their potential to benefit business and society. These aims will be facilitated through combining academic insight with individual and team activities to facilitate the translation of theory into practice and opportunities for personal development. This will be underpinned by engagement in a number of relevant knowledge areas.

Learning outcomes
Upon completion of this module students will be able to critically evaluate:
- Management development
- Ethical and responsible management
- Teams and team leadership; including working in multicultural groups

Skills outcomes
Upon completion of this module students will be able to:
Transferable
- Work effectively in multicultural / multinational teams to address management challenges
- Develop a plan to engage with the employment market and communicate effectively in writing
- Exhibit greater self-awareness and global and cultural insight
- Construct appropriate learning strategies for their future personal development initiatives including critical assessment of their personal and interpersonal strengths and weakness and develop plans to address them

Subject specific
- Adhere to established academic norms and procedures in the production of assessed (and potential future research) work

Syllabus

The practice and theory of management is a dynamic topic and core topics of study will reflect the nature of this evolving field.

As an indicative syllabus, topics may include:
- Self-diagnosis and skill development: what are my strengths and weaknesses, how do I build on the positive and address the negative?
- Good academic practice including research methods and report / essay writing: how do I reference properly, write assessments, manage my time etc.?
- Management and leadership: how do I set and achieve goals through managing others? How do I do so whist being sensitive to issues of ethical and responsible management practice and the challenges of managing in a multicultural environment? How do I run a project / programme? How do I make a presentation?
- Teams: their formation, structures, dynamics and management. How do I work as part of a team: what roles am I best at performing?
- Employability: how do I best apply my skills and background to identify appropriate jobs, and secure them?

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Workshop	20	2.00	40.00
Private study hours			110.00
Total Contact hours			40.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			150.00

Private study

Much of the private / independent study will be taken up with practical assignments (e.g. completing a self-assessment appraisal, working with a group to prepare a presentation).

Further private study will revolve around digesting key readings in core areas (e.g. academic work on teams and team working, personal learning styles)

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

Student progress will be monitored throughout the course of the module both by module tutors, and by students (through the use of a reflective log). A key component of this module will be the on-going development of the students and part of the assessment requires demonstration of improvement over the year. The end of semester 1 will form a key milestone in the monitoring process and students will be required to monitor and reflect on their progress to date and formulate action plans for semester 2.

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Essay	1000 words on ethical awareness	25.00
Portfolio	1000 word report (leading a team); 1000 word medium term action plan for personal & professional development; 1000 word reflective report	75.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		100.00

Resit will be by both Assigment and Practical

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 27/11/2014

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