HR4S68 - Global and Strategic Issues in Leadership and Management 01 Sep 2022 - 31 Aug 2028 | Version 2

Associated Module Information

Module Code: HR4S68
Module Title: Global and Strategic Issues in Leadership and Management
Faculty: Faculty of Business and Creative Industries
Faculty Group: Business Management
Faculty Sub Group: Business Management
Module Leader: Shehla Khan, Naveen Madhavan
Module Team: Adam Poole
First Intended Intake: SEP 2022 Final Year of Intake: 2027
Date Closed:
Credit Value: 20 Credit Level: 7
Language: English
Percentage of Module Taught in Welsh: 0
Equivalent Module:
HECOS codes: 100080 - international business
HECOS Code Weighting: 100

Document Version Information

Version 2
Valid From 01 Sep 2022
Valid To 31 Aug 2028

Module Aims

To provide participants with the opportunity to undertake a negotiated small-scale enquiry into a complex issue relating to global and/or strategic issue in leadership and management in a specific context. The module should extend the knowledge, skills and understanding of participants in relation to the critical evaluation of theory, the examination of practice using an appropriate methodology and method, the dissemination of actions and recommendations as well as an evaluation of added value to self and organisation

Content Summary

Participants must submit details of their proposed study to the module leader by completing a proposal. Approval of the study will be granted subject to the focus of study being in line with the achievement of the learning outcomes of the module. Elements to be included proposal include:

A definition of the complex business strategy issue to be studied in the assessed work.

Background and context of the enquiry

Rationale and Justification for the Enquiry
Research Design (including methodology and method(s)) and Rationale

Schedule of the work so that it is achieved by the hand in date

Justification for the media to be used to evidence the impact of the enquiry to satisfy and influence stakeholders and to enhance own personal brand

Budget

Sign off from organisation where primary research is to be undertaken

Students will also be given input into:

Methodology and methods for a small scale enquiry

Global and strategic issues in leadership and management

Learning and Teaching Methods

Activity Type Hours
Seminar 30
Work based learning 30
Independent Study 140
Total Hours Selected 200

Learning Outcomes

# Learning Outcome
LO1 Participants will be able to critically evaluate principles and negotiate an enquiry into a complex global and/or strategic issue in leadership and management in a specific context, displaying clear capability to synthesise information and ideas as well as an ability to draw appropriate and argued conclusions and recommendations evaluating their impact on identified stakeholders
LO2 Evaluate the extent to which the impact of the enquiry has, through action, added value to self and organisation and raised awareness of global and strategic issues in leadership and management in a specific context

Module Requisites

N/A

Assessment Criteria

Assessment Category Assessment Type Description Duration Word Count Weight (%) Best of? Pass Mark
Asynchronous Assessment Project 1 A critical evaluation of principles and an enquiry into a complex global and/or strategic issue in leadership and management in a specific context. 0 6000 100 No 40

Assessment Matrix

Assessment Type Learning Outcomes
LO1 LO2
Project 1

Reading List

Banerjee, S. B. Corporate Social Responsibility: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Edward Elgar

Dicken, P. Global shift: mapping the changing contours of the world economy, Sage

Elkington, J. Cannibals with Forks: the triple bottom line for 21st century business, Capstone, Oxford

Easterby-Smith, M., Thorpe, R. & Lowe, A. Management Research : An Introduction, Sage Publications Ltd

Friedman, T.L. Hot, flat and crowded: why the world needs a green revolution, Penguin, London

Gaspar, J.E, Arreola-Risa, A., Bierman, L., Hise, R.T & Murphy Smith, L. Introduction to Global Business: Understanding the International Environment & Global Business Functions, Cengage Learning,

Gill, J. & Johnson, P. , Research Methods for Managers Paul Chapman Publishing

Johnson, G. & Scholes, K., Exploring Corporate Strategy, FT Prentice-Hall

Peng, M.W. & Meyer,K. International Business, Cengage Learning

Rainey, D.L., Sustainable Business Development: inventing the future through strategy, innovation and leadership, Cambridge University Press

Rugman, A. M, & Collinson, S. International business - 2012 (electronic resource), Pearson

Saunders, M., Research Methods for Business Students Financial Times Prentice Hall