Module Information

The Report should not simply describe the company/organisation/institution (although aspects of the Report will inevitably provide some description of, for instance, financial data and product-market strategy); examiners will seek to specifically award grades to students that address the following:
1. Critical analysis of the company/organisational/institutional situation
2. Demonstrate the use of tools, techniques, frameworks and analytical approaches to diagnose the company/organisational/institutional situation
3. Demonstrate an appreciation of 'time' illustrating the dynamic elements involved in strategic and organisational evolution (students are strongly recommended to consider the longitudinal issues over time rather than purely adopt a static viewpoint of the issues today).
4. Use appropriate referencing (both managerial and academic sources) so as to anchor analyses to literature rather than make the project self-opinion-based.

Students should appreciate that this assignment is deliberately broad. There is no definitive structure and the scope given in the brief above is designed as integral to the assessment process. This latitude provides an opportunity for students to compile the most incisive report that analyses the company/organisational/institutional situation. An implicit part of the assessment is that students devise the structure that they feel is most appropriate to their critical analysis.

The main aims of the module are to:

• Bring together the knowledge and practical experience acquired (regarding the subject of managerial skills and the managerial skills ability of the student and their team) from the Masters programme.
• Bring together the knowledge and practical experience acquired during Management Skills events (such as communication workshops, leadership weekends and team-building activities) that are held during the relevant masters programme and apply it in the production of the report.
• Use the professional and academic literature to extend their knowledge and add to the depth of coverage during the report writing.
• To utilise the existing professional and academic literature and their practical business/management experience (where relevant) in order to critically evaluate their personal managerial skills related performance and development as well as that of their team members.
Focus on: a) a specific company, organisation or institution and/or b) a management related issue, event or problem

AND

Investigated the theory and practice of the specific management issue, event or problem selected using the existing professional, academic and prescriptive literature in each (or a selection of) the following business sub-disciplines:
1. Marketing
2. Strategy
3. Human Resource Management / Organisational Behaviour
4. Managerial Economics
5. Financial Management / Organisational Behaviour

• Report Writing: structure, and style
• Managerial Styles
• Leadership and Motivation
• Delegation
• Effective Communication
• Recruitment and Selection
• Team-Building
• Presentations
• Research methods
• Sources of information
• Company/organisational/institutional analysis
• Relevant, practical and current theory and practice in the sub-disciplines of:
Economics, Human Resource Management/Organisational Behaviour Financial Management/Management Accounting, Marketing and Strategy.

• Working within a team
• Communication skills
• Presentation skills
• Report writing
• Leadership skills
• Report Writing
• Research skills
• Self-management
• Analytical skills