Critical Perspectives on Organisation and Management

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

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

• Critically evaluate the limits of organisational and management theories in understanding practice.
• Demonstrate a critical understanding of diverse and sometimes opposing perspectives of organisation and management

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• use a wide range of intellectual ideas and analytical thinking to enrich your arguments.
• show your problem-solving skills;
• demonstrate written communication skills.

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• critically analyse perspectives of organisation and management against the global context
• Apply underlying concepts of organisation and management to practice through the critical analysis of case studies

Analysing organisation and management

Critical perspectives on Management and Organisations

Culture and organisational change

Leadership: Beyond mainstream theorising

Identities and organisations

Gender in Management Studies

Power in Organizations

Resistance and conflict in Organisations

Technology and organisation

Global context and organisation

Teaching methods include:

The module is taught via a series of lectures and classes.

Learning activities include:

It will also involve e-learning discussion groups, open debate, case studies, group work, games and videos. You will be expected to actively participate in the learning process, using virtual learning environment or other facilitative media.

Formative

This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.

Class discussions

• Assessment Type: Formative
• Feedback: In class you will receive feedback on the class exercises and activities, this will include group/individual activity and depending on the subject of the class, you will receive solutions to these activities
• Final Assessment: No
• Group Work: No

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.