INDICATIVE CONTENT
Environmental analysis and contemporary decision imperatives for strategic management
Approaches, models and competing debates of organisational change
Political, influencing and negotiating skills in group and team decision-making situations
Contemporary approaches to strategic management
Strategic management models for strategy analysis, evaluation and implementation
Power, politics and debates on strategic leadership
Approaches to risk management and assessment
Competing paradigms affecting decision choice and assessment
Global and international factors affecting strategic development
LEARNING STRATEGIES
Students will engage in a variety of learning forums including:
tutor-led formal presentations, guest lectures, workshops and group based tutorials, VLE for learner-managed development, as well as independent research.
RESOURCES
In addition to the usual class-room requirements, the students will need to be able to access the labs on a regular basis and engage in e-learning activities.
Contemporary journals are essential to this development such as:
Journal of Organizational Change Management
Journal of Change Management
Harvard Business Review
Academy of Management Review
Journal of Decision Making
Assessment Details
INDIVIDUAL 1 QUESTIONS weighted at 50%; students will be answering questions that will be based on a case study that will cover the strategy topics studied during TB1
INDIVIDUAL 2 QUESTIONS weighted at 50%, students will be answering questions that will be based on a case study that will cover the strategy topics studied during TB2
Texts
Johnson G., Whittington R., Scholes K , Angwin D. & Regner P. : Exploring Strategy. 11th Ed, Pearson ed 2017
Clegg, S. R., Carter, Schweitzer, J., Whittle, A, & Pitelis, C (2016). Strategy: Theory and Practice, 2nd edition, Sage
Lynch, R (2015). Strategic Management, 7th edition, Pearson
Johnson G., Whittington R., Scholes K., Angwin D. & Regnér P: Fundamentals of Strategy, 3rd Edition Pearson ed 2015.