Weighting: 100 %
Type: Assignment (L. O. 1, 2, 3, 4)
Brief Description: Critical essay on selected issue regarding tactical and operational level of management in selected company.
Length: max. 3000 words.

1. Basic functions and characteristics of management and s processes, intended and emergent strategies.
2. Instrumentalism, management recipes and paradigms.
3. Management - mission statement, strategies and goals, corporate, business, horizontal and functional strategies.
4. Analysing factors which influence the organisation in business conditions, the competitive environment, stakeholders, internal environment - assessing resource capability and control of the value chain.
5. Key aspects of tactical and operational levels of management including its relationship with organisational strategy
6. Methodological issues related to management
7. Management concept, its evaluation and selection
8. Research in management
9. Organisational structures, cultures and processes and their significance
10. Managing change and renewal. Changing styles, cultures and leadership.

1. Critically understand presented management concepts and its application in a specific organisation.
Knowledge and understanding

2. Demonstrate the independent learning ability when enhancing the knowledge of other management concepts.
Learning

3. Exhibit a complex analysis of related industry and internal environment for a specific company including structure and other elements.
Analysis

Students will engage in direct teaching sessions / lectures and following structured learning.

Following the lectures and prior to completing assessment students will engage with guided learning which will consolidate all new knowledge and understanding.

Independent learning strategies will include electronic consultations, electronic discussion groups and if asked for - personal consultations / advice with lecture team members.

• Access to online SU library,E-brary, Beck online
• Students have course handbook and learning package at their disposal

FOR INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIVE PARTNERS ONLY

• Venkateswaran, N.. International Business Management. Daryaganj, IND: New Age International, 2012. ProQuest ebrary.
• Mahajan, J.P.. Business Organisation and Management. Mumbai, IND: Himalaya Publishing House, 2010. ProQuest ebrary..
• Mowles, Chris. Rethinking Management. Farnham, Surrey, GBR: Ashgate Publishing Group, 2011. ProQuest ebrary.

(or the most current versions of the texts)