School of Management, Unit Catalogue 2010/11 |
MN50384: Research in organisational dynamics |
 Credits:
| 6 |
| Level:
| Masters |
| Period: | This unit is available in... |
| Semester 1 |
| Assessment:
| CW 100% |
| Supplementary Assessment: | Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations) |
| Requisites:
| Only available to students on the MSc Advanced Management Practice. |
| Description:
| Aims: The main aim of this unit is to develop students' ability to research a particular organizational dynamic within a life organizational context. Within the overall context of the MAMP, this module seeks to prepare students for the 'Business Case Analysis' which they need to complete as part of their 'Portfolio of Professional Practice' during the Period of Practice (MN50389). As a postgraduate level unit, students will be expected to identity and engage critically with relevant organizational research, popular management literature and contemporary debates. Learning Outcomes: By the end of this unit, the student should have/be able to demonstrate: * Team-building (F) * An understanding of how organisations operate (F) * Enterprise skills (eg creativity, initiative, research, & concept testing) (F) * Approach potential organizational stakeholders (beneficiaries), gain their agreement and develop a professional relationship with them (F) * Project management (F) * Communications and presentation skills (F) * Experience of stakeholder engagement and to be able to consider CSR activities in practice (F) * Reflective practice and integration with theory (F) * The ability to identify organizational dynamics and engage in self-directed study of relevant organizational theories and concepts (T, F, A) * The ability to engage in relevant empirical methods of organizational analysis (T, F, A) * The ability to discuss critically the implications of particular approaches to organizing with regards to a range of different organizational settings and situations (F, A) * The capability to analyse particular organizational settings and develop recommendations, using appropriate conceptual lenses (F, A). Skills: Design of literature review - taught, facilitated and assessed Critical thinking - facilitated and assessed Research skills - taught, facilitated and assessed Analyse organizational dynamics - facilitated and assessed. Content: The emphasis of this module is on facilitating students' undertaking of the Community-Based Action Learning Project (team) and design of research projects (individual). This will be achieved through a combination of taught lectures, providing guidance on research methods and organizational dynamics, and tutorials for the exchange of feedback and progress reporting. The Community-Based Action Learning during semester 1 will be organized in cooperation with faculty of MN50386 'Business & Society'. Learning in this unit is generated through educational methods as well as the content. In this learning activity, teams of five students will plan and deliver a social value generating project off campus that is of benefit to a non-profit organization (e.g. charity, social enterprise, community organization, or school; and possibly in partnership with business). This activity creates the experiential context for students to apply and develop their self-management, communications and management skills and generate experiences that will enable them to integrate and apply conceptual learning from across several modules of the AMP, in particular Professional Career Development, Business in Society, Project Management, and this module. For the assessment of this module, students are expected to use systematic methods of tracking and reporting on their individual and collective accomplishments and learning. They need to identify, research and analyse micro- or macro-level organizational dynamics that are relevant to the either: the functioning of the team (and their own role within it), their interactions with the non-profit organization and other stakeholders, management and operations of the non-profit organization, or the non-profit organization's interactions with its wider organizational environment. |