Managing your career is essential. You'll build an understanding of the type of employee that is valued in business today. This will help you create a work identity that will get you ahead as you build your career, through knowing how personal brand, fitness levels, and the hours you work inform this identity, as well as how you can stay authentic to your true self while responding to work demands. You’ll be able to create a work identity that enables you to fulfil your potential and take you to the very top of the organisations you work in.
Total contact hours: 21
Private study hours: 129
Total study hours: 150
Main assessment methods:
Examination, 2 hours (60%)
Essay 1 (1000 words) (20%)
Essay 2 (1000 words) (20%)
Reassessment method:
100% exam
Hancock, P. and Spicer, A. eds., 2009. Understanding corporate life. London: Sage.
Dyer, S., Humphries, M., Fitzgibbons, D. and Hurd, F., 2014. Understanding management critically: A student text. London: Sage.
See the library reading list for this module (Canterbury)
The intended subject specific learning outcomes:
- critically evaluate advanced theories of management;
- critically evaluate contemporary management practices and organisation structures;
- critically assess managerial responses to contemporary organisational challenges
- critically assess the relevance of critical management studies to our knowledge of management and organisations;
- critically evaluate the dynamics of power and identity as they shape the experiences of managers in contemporary organisations.
The intended generic learning outcomes:
- critically assess and evaluate the impact of contemporary problems like "sustainability" on management and organisations;
- demonstrate developed analytical skills by connecting advanced theories of management to contemporary management situations and concerns;
- demonstrate enhanced ability to write coherently and critically;
- demonstrate enhanced ability to draw on social science concepts and theories and to articulate complex arguments;
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