This module requires candidates to commit 150 learning hour including assessment: 36 direct supported learning hours will draw on lectures, workshops, in-class discussion etc. Opportunities for formative feedback, evaluation and reflection on the outcomes of actions are included. 114 (minimum) independent learning hours will be engaged in the indicative content. Wider reading is expected. Course members are required to participate in a group presentation. Management skills, studied from an academic perspective, and study skills are synchronized with practical sessions in the English for Academic Purposes (EAP) additional (timetabled) module. During induction week students are allocated into multicultural learning teams of around six. Via questionnaires teams are balanced according to psychological team roles profiles, gender, nationality and academic experience. Teams are immediately set a business start-up task to complete during independent learning time. Around a month later this culminates with the domestic residential to fast-track management development, in line with the skills listed above. Students give a formative and summative feedback on the outline business-plan team poster. Formative feedback on all activities informs their development of skills that are used in summative assessments in other modules.

The activities and delivery are designed to support and accelerate participant's preparation for management careers in an increasingly interdependent world and successful completion of the award.
As the programme is highly vocational, professional and academic skills overlap considerably.
Together, they provide the underpinning spine (assessed) to the whole programme. PASS overlaps study support with the overarching vocational aims and objectives of the postgraduate programme: employability and career enhancement. The module facilitates through engagement and action learning the development of topics such as:
a. Modern key global management skills: Team working in multicultural context; time management; communication and presentation skills
b. Career awareness: Careers Day participation; Stress management
c. Introductory project management
d. Study support skills: Learning styles; Case study analysis technique; Critical reviewing/thinking skills; Library and research skills; IT & numerical skill awareness

Core text: MURDOCK, A; SCUTT, C.N. (2002) Personal Effectiveness, 2nd edition. Butterworth Heinemann, Oxford. ISBN 075063393X

Library and on-line databases.
Management skills training delivery.
UK residential venue.

Details:-
1. The first Summative assessment of this module is a Group Poster Presentation of a business idea.
a) Assignment 'Poster', weighted at 25% (LO's 1 & 2)
b) Assignment Peer assessment of the 'Poster' (up to 4 peer assessments to make from the module cohort; weighted at 10% (LO 2)

2. The second Summative assessment of this module is a 2000 word individual self critical reflective accoun ton:
a) Personal contribution to the learning team experience, weighted at 45% (LO's 1, 2 & 3)
b) Peer assessment of the individual learning team experience assignment (up to 4 randomised peer assessments to make from the module cohort; weighted at 20% (LO 2)