Critical Perspectives on Organisation and Management

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.

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

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.

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 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.

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

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.

Repeat Information

Repeat type: Internal & External