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BUSI53815: Management and Career Development (DL)

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Type Tied
Level 4
Credits 15
Availability Not available in 2023/24
Module Cap
Location Durham
Department Management and Marketing

Prerequisites

  • None

Corequisites

  • None

Excluded Combinations of Modules

  • None.

Aims

  • To introduce students to key concepts and techniques of management development as a basis for reviewing their own career development.

Content

  • Foundations of management development;
  • Managerial effectiveness concepts;
  • Management and organisational learning;
  • Strategy, culture, systems, structure and learning;
  • Historical perspectives on management development;
  • Standards and qualifications;
  • Management development audits;
  • Development and training strategies;
  • Measurement of management performance;
  • Appraising performance;
  • Career progression and management;
  • Coaching, counselling and mentoring;
  • Personal development;
  • Personal effectivensss audit;
  • CV development;
  • Transferring learning into practice;

Learning Outcomes

Subject-specific Knowledge:

  • By the end of the module, students should be able to critically appraise key concepts and techniques of management development.

Subject-specific Skills:

  • By the end of the module, students should be able to apply concepts and techniques of management development to their own career development.

Key Skills:

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

  • Through a combination of learning materal, self assessed exercises and a formative assignment on key topical issues, together with guided reading.
  • On the DL MA Programme each module is delivered in discrete Units which are equivalent to a lecture session. A DL Unit normally consists of specially written material, directed reading, reflection through self-assessed assignments and guidance for further reading.
  • Each student is allocated a Tutor for each Module. the Tutor is tasked with providing feedback on formative work and is available for individual consultation as necessary. Tutoring is normally provided at a distance and may be conducted by email, telephone, post or fax.
  • The DL Programme offers annual residential seminars. In addition to offering core curriculum, the seminars provide the opportunity for DL Students to interface with members of Faculty, meet Tutors and to interact with other members of the student cohort.
  • Tutorials are conducted by email, post or fax. Students are unlikely to require more than 5 hours of telephone support form a tutor combiend with a further 5 hours of tutor time in answering questions recevied by post, fax or email.

Teaching Methods and Learning Hours

ActivityNumberFrequencyDurationTotalMonitored
Units9 
Tutorials5Yes
Residential seminars 
Preparation & Reading 
Total150 

Summative Assessment

Component: AssignmentComponent Weighting: 100%
ElementLength / DurationElement WeightingResit Opportunity
Assignment3000 words100 

Formative Assessment

Written assignment of 2,000 words (maximum)

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