BSc Management (Accounting & Finance) with Industrial/Professional Experience / Course details

Being a professional manager means doing the 'right' things in the 'right' way. In other words, to effectively enact managerial practices, and to do so ethically, responsibly, and sustainably. In this course we discuss case studies to translate management frameworks into professional management practice.

Cases discussed in the course combine frameworks for performing a variety of managerial practices (e.g. leading, organizing, marketing, strategizing) with practices for doing so ethically, responsibly, and sustainably (e.g. stakeholder management, life-cycle assessment, triple-bottom line management).

Lectures will consist of brief presentations of management frameworks, and a more extensive discussion of their application in short cases. In seminars, you will form and work in small groups with some of your classmates. Seminars will consist of the analysis of a longer case in your group and preparing your group presentation (assessed).

 

Core for BSc Mgt/Mgt(Specialism); IM; IMABS.

Core for BSc Mgt/Mgt(Specialism); IM.

 

Students will learn about real-world professional management practices through cases that will prepare them for performing management practices responsibly.

 

By the end of the course, students should be able to: 

1. Apply management tools and techniques to analyse cases 
2. Collect and interpret empirical material about innovative and responsible management practices 
3. Communicate findings orally in a group workshop presentation and in the written form of a brief case. 
 

 

There are two types of formal scheduled learning activities:
 

Lectures. There are five foundation lectures conveying basic frameworks, exemplifying case analysis, as well as expectations and requirements of the course unit. Lectures prepare the ground for the seminars and provide key content to assist the production of coursework to be assessed.

Seminars. The course includes three mandatory seminars (2 formative and 1 assessed) in which students analyse management cases and prepare coursework in small teams. In the third seminar, students will deliver a presentation that will build on an essay to be uploaded to Backboard in advance.

 

 
Methods of delivery 

Lecture hours: 10 hours

Seminar hours: 3 seminars of 3, 4 and 3 hours (10hours total)

Private study: Independent preparation for seminar group activities (80 hours total).

Total study hours: 100 hours split between lectures, seminar, self-study and preparation for classes, and coursework.

 

• Professionalism: This course will help to develop a solid foundation for for understanding what it means to conduct management practices with professionalism and responsibility. 
• Teamwork: In this course, you will learn how to work collaboratively with others to achieve a goal. As an individual team member, you will learn how to take on a role within your team, take responsibility for the team's progress, contributing your ideas, and communicate effectively. 
• Critical reflection and reflexivity This course will cultivate your ability to critically question the adequateness of common management practices through cases, and to reflect on your role as a manager in enacting these practices. 
• Innovation: In this course, you will explore new management practices that better address the challenges managers face. It will also provide you with opportunities to consider what new management practice you would consider advancing to serve a better world. 
   

 

This course unit is assessed (100%) based on two team-based assignments (an essay and a presentation based on the essay), which are given equal weight.

 

 

Seminar leaders will provide oral feedback at the formative stage and criteria-based feedback at the summative stage. Students will be expected to respond to the oral feedback given after each presentation, through discussing with the seminar leader what was strong and what was weak. Overall class feedback will be provided on Blackboard for the summative group presentations. The coursework will have feedback focusing on how to improve, relating to the criteria for assessment (marking scheme). Use will be made of BB Discussion Forums to ensure consistency across and between groups when dealing with generic questions.

Laasch, O. (2020). Principles of Professional Management: Practicing Ethics, Responsibility, Sustainability. London: SAGE.

 

 

Other staff involved: Workshop facilitators 

Pre-requisites: N/A

Co-requisites: N/A

Dependent courses: N/A

Programme Restrictions: core for Management, IM and IMABS

For Academic Year 2024/25

Updated: March 2024

Approved by: March UG Committee