School of Management, Unit Catalogue 2007/08 |
MN50352 Developing your managerial competence |
| Credits: 6 |
| Level: Masters |
| Modular: no specific semester |
| Assessment: CW 100% |
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NB. Students may take a maximum of 9 credits from MN50341, MN50342, MN50343, MN50344, MN50345 and MN50348 between taking this unit and taking MN50340. Aims: Students will be able to develop their own professional managerial competence throughout the degree by participating in taught workshops and working intensively within a learning set guided by a learning coach. This unit aims to develop self-awareness, personal and interpersonal effectiveness through action learning. Learning Outcomes: Successful completion of this unit should result in participants who are: * Self-aware and have explored challenging individual development issues, * Have developed their individual portfolio of managerial skills, * Have devised an outline plan for their own career and personal skills development over the duration of the MBA, based on a range of diagnostic activities. Skills: Critical thinking - facilitated and assessed Self-awareness - facilitated and assessed Interpersonal skills - developed Leadership skills - developed Managing conflict - facilitated Communication - developed Reflection on skill development - assessed. Content: This unit is delivered through four elements: The Individual in Context (DyMC1) The first course element personalizes key contextual factors impacting on contemporary careers. It offers students a range of activities to help them identify their own learning objectives. This initiates the self-reflective development of professional competence which runs throughout the degree. Learning sets Students will then be members of learning sets (4 facilitated and 4 self-managed) through which they will develop their competence as self-reflective practitioners and engage in specific learning projects. They will report and reflect on these verbally and through writing interim learning papers For Part-time MBA students, self-managed learning sets may be scheduled as virtual teleconference meetings and/or on-campus meetings outside of official teaching hours (e.g. in evenings or weekends,) as required and in coordination with other group members. Leading in Context (DyMC2) The third course element will draw theory and practice together through an exploration of leading in context. Combined with learning set experiences, this unit seeks to develop leadership awareness and skills needed in organizational situations. Competence Focused Skills Training Students will be required to attend at least one competence-focused workshop. |