Module overview
This module explores and critically analyses diverse and sometimes opposing perspectives on organising and managing a range of organisations, including but not limited to MNCs, SMEs and local organisations. The module exposes learners to critical analyses of key topics including leadership, culture, organisational change, power, identities, technology and the global context of organisation. The application of these concepts to organisational and management practices will be examined through various case studies.
Linked modules
Pre-Requisite: MANG1003
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- use a wide range of intellectual ideas and analytical thinking to enrich your arguments;
- demonstrate communication skills.
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- critically analyse perspectives of organisation and management in the global context;
- apply underlying concepts of organisation and management to practice through critical analysis of case studies.
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- diverse and opposing perspectives of organisation and management;
- the limits of organisational and management theories in practice.
Syllabus
Analysing organisation and management
Critical perspectives on organisation and management
Culture and organisational change
Leadership: Beyond mainstream theorising
Identities and organisations
Gender in organisations
Power in organisations
Resistance and conflict in organisations
Technology and organisations
Global context and organisations
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
Teaching methods include:
A series of lectures and classes
Learning activities include:
e-learning discussion groups, open debates, case studies, group work, games, reflective exercises and videos. Learners will be encouraged to actively participate in the learning process, using virtual learning environment or other facilitative media.
Type | Hours |
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Revision | 11 |
Preparation for scheduled sessions | 60 |
Wider reading or practice | 10 |
Follow-up work | 20 |
Completion of assessment task | 15 |
Seminar | 10 |
Lecture | 24 |
Total study time | 150 |
Resources & Reading list
Textbooks
Mats Alvesson, Todd Bridgman and Hugh Wilmott (2011). The Oxford Handbook of Critical Management Studies.
Buchanan, D. A., & Huczynski, A. A. (2017). Organisational Behaviour. Pearson.
Brown, A.D. (2020). The Oxford Handbook of Identities in Organizations. Oxford University Press.
Assessment
Assessment strategy
Formative feedback. Seminars will be used to provide guidance and feedback on the assessment. The formative feedback will not contain any marked components.
The summative assessment will include an individual 3000-word essay weighted at 100% of the contribution to the final mark.
Formative
This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.
Essay Class discussionsSummative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Essay | 100% |
Referral
This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Essay | 100% |
Repeat
An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Essay | 100% |
Repeat Information
Repeat type: Internal & External