Course overview
This course equips students with a comprehensive understanding of management fundamentals, emphasising leadership principles, organisational change, and decision-making processes. Through exploring management theory, organisational environments, and ethical considerations related to diversity and cultural perspectives, learners gain a holistic grasp of the managerial landscape. They will apply key functions - planning, organising and controlling - in practical contexts, focusing on concepts, such as motivation and teamwork. The course provides a framework for navigating modern management complexities and leadership challenges and preparing students to have the knowledge to appreciate diverse organisational settings.
Course learning outcomes
- Demonstrating understanding of the principles governing effective and sustainable management of individuals, teams and organisations
- Ability to explain and apply the functions, roles and skills of managers
- Autonomously and collaboratively discuss and evaluate how organisations manage diversity
- Demonstrating understanding and collaboratively evaluating the factors influencing individual, team and organisational performance
- Discuss, analyse and apply management and organisational behaviour theory to assist resolution of organisational issues
- Ability to discuss insights on how organisations innovate and change