The Cultural Imagination of Management

Learning Outcomes

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Explain how managerial decisions and culture forms interact to produce successful management practices.
• Evaluate different styles of writing used for academic, cultural, and business purposes.
• Evaluate films and texts using business management knowledge and literary analysis to develop a multi-perspective analysis on management practices.

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• Cultural representations of leadership, ethics, and sensemaking in organisations
• Key factors and pillars of people and management, and how these stakeholders interact with the macroenvironment (i.e., business environment, society).
• How management practices could be evaluated through multiple perspectives (i.e., intent, content, and outcomes).

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Understand and navigate different disciplinary terms and how they apply to organisations.

Through the study of literature, film, advertising and real-life case studies, topics that you might study could include:

• The self and well-being at work
• Leadership in organisations: managing uncertainty and changes
• Sustainability practices in organizations: business ethics and social responsibility
• Communication
• Diversity, equity and inclusion

The module may contain the following activities:

Case Study Analysis

Film and Text Analysis

Personality assessment

Team Charter Exercise

Teaching and learning methods that you may receive during module:

• Lectures that cover core concepts, with interaction for experiential learning activities.
• Activities that focus on learning by doing, and reflection on past experiences. Activities range from small group discussions, roleplay, and completion of in-class simulations in groups.
• Readings and multimedia materials will be given during the semester and to encourage self-directed learning.

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.