Module Information
Module Identifier
ILM0910
Module Title
WORKPLACE CASE STUDY
Academic Year
2009/2010
Co-ordinator
Semester
Semester 2
Course Delivery
Delivery Type | Delivery length / details |
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Seminars / Tutorials | Tutorial prior to placement |
Other | 2 week placement within suitable organisation |
Assessment
Assessment Type | Assessment length / details | Proportion |
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Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this module students should be able to:
Brief description
Rather than introducing a large amount of new content, the aim of this module is to provide guidance to the students in the application of the knowledge they have gained through the taught programme elements by carrying out a project based on their placement.
Content
Unit 1: Your organisation: consideration of the raison d'etre of the organisation, its shape and size, functions and processes, culture, political environment, external influences and legislative influences.
Unit2: The records: assess how they are managed, how well the current records management system is meeting the organizational needs.
Unit 3:The RM process: formats, access, appraisal and preservation
Unit 4: Strategies for Action: analysis and understanding, strategy itself, persuasion and change.
Unit2: The records: assess how they are managed, how well the current records management system is meeting the organizational needs.
Unit 3:The RM process: formats, access, appraisal and preservation
Unit 4: Strategies for Action: analysis and understanding, strategy itself, persuasion and change.
Module Skills
Skills Type | Skills details |
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Communication | Interviewing members of the organisation to locate and assemble the necessary data; presentation by written formal report. |
Improving own Learning and Performance | Reflection on own ability to carry out the required methodologies within working environment |
Information Technology | Application of IT skills in the presentation of data |
Personal Development and Career planning | Increased awareness of current issues surrounding the management of recorded information and strategies for addressing them (critical skills for modern information management professionals) |
Problem solving | Analysis of organizational recordkeeping problems in comparison with best practice, recommendations for applicable solutions |
Research skills | Review of best practice, involving gathering techniques and summative skills. |
Subject Specific Skills | Development of analytical skills in the synthesis of theory and practice of the management of recorded information |
Notes
This module is at CQFW Level 7