BUSI43K15: Organisational Context

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• Allow students to critically evaluate the nature of organisations and the impact and application within their specialised organisational environment context.
• Allow students to critically evaluate the academic issues of entrepreneurship, corporate entrepreneurship and / or innovation and critique their appropriateness and application within a specialised organisational environment context.
• Allow students to critically evaluate the impact of macro economic factors on their specialised organisational environment context.
• Develop students competency to innovatively assess the impact of these issues in a wider sectoral context.

• The content of this module is set within a specialist organisational environment perspective and includes the following areas:
• Making use of library facilities, databases and other learning resources;
• Application of advanced principles, concepts and methods to select a topic;
• Selection of the appropriate research approach to match the chosen topic;
• Growth, development, creativity and innovation;
• The impact of economic factors
• The impact of government policy.

Subject-specific Knowledge:

• Have advanced familiarity with the specialist facilities available for conducting literature searches and obtaining relevant data to facilitate empirical investigation;
• Have a critical appreciation of the nature of organisations terms of size, structure and behavioural aspects within a specialist organisational environment;
• Have an advanced knowledge and critical appreciation of traditional and emergent issues in entrepreneurship and innovation- e.g. social and gender issues - and their application in a specialist organisational environment;
• Have an advanced knowledge and critical appreciation of traditional and emergent organisational issues in relation to the nature of the specialist route of their qualification.

Subject-specific Skills:

• Have further developed advanced skills of inquiry, information retrieval, bibliographic search, interpretation and presentation,;
• Be able to produce a literature review in the area of a specialised organisational environment appropriate to a masters level programme.

Key Skills:

• Written communication; planning and organising; using initiative.

• The learning outcomes will be met through a combination of lectures and guided reading addressing key topics in research.
• The assessment of the module, by written assignment, is designed to:
• Test the capacity to examine a range of literature on specialized area and be able to communicate the results of this work to peers in a manner appropriate to the subject area;
• Test conceptual understanding and synthesis of concepts and theories within a specialised organisational environment;
• The group work carried out within the lectures and in the group tutorials is designed to enhance the capacity to be effective within a team environment and to value individuals' contributions in group processes.

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