BUSI4AS10: Careers and Professional Skills Development
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Type | Tied |
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Level | 4 |
Credits | 10 |
Availability | Available in 2024/2025 |
Module Cap | |
Location | Durham |
Department | Management and Marketing |
Prerequisites
- None.
Corequisites
- None.
Excluded Combinations of Modules
- None.
Aims
- To provide and develop the skills and competencies required to be employed in energy engineering management positions.
Content
- Historical perspectives on management and engineering development;
- Foundations of management development: Strategy, culture, systems, structures and learning;
- Managerial effectiveness and organisational learning;
- Management development audits and measuring management performance;
- Professional standards and qualifications;
- Development and training strategies;
- Career progression and management;
- Coaching, counselling and mentoring;
- Personal development and auditing personal effectiveness;
- Transforming learning into practice and appraising performance;
- CV development.
Learning Outcomes
Subject-specific Knowledge:
- Understanding of management concepts.
- Knowledge of development and training strategies for individuals and organisations.
- Understanding of effective leadership management evaluation.
- Knowledge of how to recognise the skills and development needs of others within an organisational context.
Subject-specific Skills:
- Ability to apply concepts and techniques of management development to their own career development.
- Ability to critically appraise key concepts and techniques of management development.
- Ability appraise own skills and development needs.
Key Skills:
- Ability to communicate effectively own qualities, skills and experience.
- Effective written communication.
- Strategic and operational planning, organisation and time management.
- Management problem solving, evaluation and analysis.
- Personal initiative.
Modes of Teaching, Learning and Assessment and how these contribute to the learning outcomes of the module
- The module will be delivered through a combination of learning material, self-assessed exercises and a summative portfolio assignment on key topical issues, together with guided reading and learning.
- The assessment portfolio is built up over the course and students are encouraged to reflect on the links between different modules and their professional development.
- Each module element is delivered as a discrete unit, equivalent to a lecture or short lecture block. A unit normally consists of specially written material, directed reading, reflection through self-assessed assignments and guidance for further reading.
Teaching Methods and Learning Hours
Activity | Number | Frequency | Duration | Total | Monitored |
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Lectures | 1 | 4 hours | 4 | ||
Workshops | 7 | 3 hours | 21 | Yes | |
Preparation and reading | 75 | ||||
Total | 100 |
Summative Assessment
Component: Assessment | Component Weighting: 100% | ||
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Element | Length / Duration | Element Weighting | Resit Opportunity |
Coursework Portfolio | 15 pages | 100 |
Formative Assessment
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