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 Academic Year:
| 2012/3 |
| Owning Department/School:
| School of Management |
| Credits:
| 6 |
| Level:
| Masters UG & PG (FHEQ level 7) |
| Period: |
Semester 1 |
| Assessment:
| CW 50%, EX 50% |
| Supplementary Assessment: | Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations) |
| Requisites:
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| Description:
| Aims: To equip students with an understanding of the issues, approaches and conceptual basis for researchers studying management, organisations and the context of enterprise management. Learning Outcomes: Knowledge and Understanding * Appreciate the common and different issues facing researchers seeking to examine management and organisation from the perspective of different functional areas and disciplines. * Understand the interrelationships between different research areas in management and the environment of organisations and the conceptual underpinnings. Skills: * Be able to analyse management, organisations and their environments using a variety of conceptual approaches. * Be able to examine different functional areas and processes within organisations. * Understand how the examination of different aspects of management and organisation can be integrated. * Be able to conduct research in a range of managerial and organisational settings. * Be able to assess the methodological requirements for research in different aspects of management and its context. * Recognise how research approaches are developed in response to particular questions of research in management and organisation. * Recognise the cultural context of the design, conduct, analysis and interpretation of research in management and organisation. Content: The unit will comprise 1. Core lectures on current and emerging issues in management and the organisational environment. 2. Seminars on the history, development and structure of management and organisational research. 3. Seminars and Case Study sessions in which students examine particular issues and management problems from a variety of different perspectives. 4. Seminars in which students discuss set articles illustrating major themes in management and organisational research. |
| Programme availability: |
MN50294 is Compulsory on the following programmes:School of Management
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