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2019/20 Taught Postgraduate Module Catalogue

LUBS5968M Understanding and Managing Effective Groups and Teams

15 creditsClass Size: 200

Module manager: Dr Ahmed Mostafa
Email: a.mostafa@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: 1 Mar to 31 May View Timetable

Year running 2019/20

This module is not approved as an Elective

Objectives

The overall aim of this module is to provide students with in-depth knowledge of the key issues relevant to the design of effective organisational groups and teams in relation to salient measures of effectiveness.

Learning outcomes
Learning outcomes
Upon completion of this module students will be able to:
- Identify, describe, discuss and critically evaluate group behaviour, development, and decision making
- Critically evaluate team composition and processes, and extract the characteristics of effective teams
- Critically assess the ways in which, and to what extent, knowledge of organisational behaviour theory, models, and concepts, are able to contribute to development and management of effective groups and teams in a variety of cultural and organisational contexts

Skills outcomes
Skills outcomes
Upon completion of this module students will be able to:

Transferable
- Apply effectively skills of analysis and critical thinking
- Express and reflect upon their leaning in oral and written form

Subject Specific
- Deploy appropriate team working and communication skills in context
- Identify and discuss the social and cultural sensitivities of team working


Syllabus

Indicative content:
Foundations of group behaviour
Stages of group development
Group properties (roles, norms, control and deviance)
Group cognition (decision making, rules, information sharing, group process gain and loss, group decision aids, shared cognition)
Types of teams
Team composition and processes
The creation of successful teams (including team leadership)
Team building aids
Multi-team systems

Teaching methods

Delivery typeNumberLength hoursStudent hours
Workshop52.0010.00
Lecture53.0015.00
Private study hours125.00
Total Contact hours25.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)150.00

Private study

Students will have to undertake recommended reading before and after the lectures, together with reviewing and consolidating the teaching materials in their own time.

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

Students will receive feedback on their learning throughout the interactive sessions and formal feedback on their performance through their group presentation and individual project report.

Methods of assessment


Coursework
Assessment typeNotes% of formal assessment
Report2,000 word individual project report70.00
Oral PresentationGroup presentation30.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)100.00

Resit will be by 3,000 word report for 100% of the module mark.

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 30/04/2019

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