Management in Context
Bridging module for students from non-management backgrounds
10 credits
This module aims to introduce students to the theory underlying management studies while at the same time starting to develop key managerial skills. In addition to key management texts, media representations of management in the British context and beyond will be drawn on, including contemporary sources such as newspapers and TV documentaries that have a specific management orientation, as well as presentations from guest speakers from the business community. There will be an emphasis on task- and project-based learning.
Secondly the module aims to place the study of management within the global context. This involves exploring the wider socio-historic/socio-economic contexts in which management is enacted and reflecting on different forms of organising work and examining cultural and historical differences.
Syllabus
• Defining management
• Representations of management (media)
• Management in context – the business landscape
• Management in the 21st century - challenges and issues
• Studying and theorising management
• Types and forms of management (historical and cultural)
• Leadership and managing people
• Forms of organising – teams and groups
• Introduction to project management
• Introduction to financial control
• Introducing strategy
• Managing a high tech business
• E-Business management
Select bibliography
Boddy, D. (2005) Management: an Introduction (3rd ed.), Prentice Hall, Harlow.
