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BUSI45K15: Reframing Management

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Type Open
Level 4
Credits 15
Availability Not available in 2024/2025
Module Cap
Location Durham
Department Management and Marketing

Prerequisites

  • None.

Corequisites

  • None.

Excluded Combinations of Modules

  • None.

Aims

  • To develop students ability to re-conceptualise management both as a practice and as a site for academic study.

Content

  • Introduction: opening thoughts on crisis
  • Art: metaphor and management
  • Art: images, art and organising
  • Ethics: as virtue
  • Ethics: as practice
  • Process: change and refuting fixity
  • Process: leadership as event
  • Culture: theory and groups
  • Science: Actor Network Theory

Learning Outcomes

Subject-specific Knowledge:

  • By the end of the module students should:
  • Have an advanced knowledge and understanding of the different possibilities for reframing, recontextualising and reworking management and organising in contemporary societies;
  • Appreciate the advantages and limitations of particular theories and management practices;
  • Be able to evaluate critically different approaches to management studies and appraise future directions.

Subject-specific Skills:

  • By the end of the module students should:
  • Have developed creative, deeper and more challenging ways of understanding organising, based on contemporary theoretical developments;
  • Be able to demonstrate sensitivity to the complexity of social, political, ethical, economic and philosophical issues that shape contemporary management practice.

Key Skills:

Modes of Teaching, Learning and Assessment and how these contribute to the learning outcomes of the module

  • Through a combination of lectures, seminars, guided reading and expert clinics addressing key topics in cutting-edge management research, students will acquire the advanced skills and knowledge to enable them to develop a thorough understanding of this specialist field of study.
  • The summative assessment of the module, by presentation and written assignment, is designed to test students knowledge and understanding of the subject-matter and their ability to apply it to the analysis of specific issues relating to the study of managing and organising.

Teaching Methods and Learning Hours

ActivityNumberFrequencyDurationTotalMonitored
Lectures9Weekly1 hour9 
Seminars9Weekly1 hour9Yes
Expert clinics (to provide support for presentation and essay)2Twice during term2 hours4 
Preparation, project work & reading128 
Total150 

Summative Assessment

Component: Individual written assignmentComponent Weighting: 80%
ElementLength / DurationElement WeightingResit Opportunity
Individual written assignment2500 words (maximum)100 
Component: Group presentationComponent Weighting: 20%
ElementLength / DurationElement WeightingResit Opportunity
Group presentation (resit: individual written assignment of 1000 words based on group presentation)10 minutes100 

Formative Assessment

Individual and group presentations, and seminar discussions

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