BE865-7-SP-CO:
People and Sustainable Organisations
2024/25
Essex Business School
Colchester Campus
Spring
Postgraduate: Level 7
Current
Monday 13 January 2025
Friday 21 March 2025
10
25 March 2024
Requisites for this module
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MBA N200JS The Essex MBA,
MBA N20EJS The Essex MBA
This module is designed to encourage students to think and reflect upon the nature of managing people and organisations.
In particular, the module encourages students to consider many of the key human aspects of management that are, so often, taken for granted and in so doing provides students with an understanding of core issues that shape the management of organisational performance. Building upon an awareness of these key debates, the module invites participants to analyse workforce issues that shape their management practice.
The aims of this module are:
- To enable students to appreciate and analyse the role of people in shaping organisational performance.
- To enhance in-depth understanding and awareness of own behaviour and small group dynamics in a variety of work settings.
- To enhance in-depth understanding of the process of change and the management of change in organisations.
By the end of this module, students will be expected to be able to:
- To obtain up to date knowledge of approaches and perspectives of Human Resource Management (HRM).
- To acquire an appreciation of contemporary research and debates in the fields of HRM.
- To understand how organisational and HR strategies are shaped by and developed in response to internal and external environmental factors.
- To appreciate the role of globalisation, international and technological trends in shaping organisational and HR strategies and practices.
- To apply their knowledge in practice for different organisations.
Skills for Your Professional Life (Transferable Skills)
- The research and distillation of current information.
- The ability to carry out primary research based on a justifiable method to find out new information.
- The ability to write clearly and concisely to convey ideas to others.
- Team working.
The module is structured to provide an exploration of contemporary issues and key debates in the world of work and addresses the principles and practice of human resource management (HRM) in different work environments and organisational context. Through rich case studies from the real world, the module considers the managerial, institutional and social context of human resource management and the impact of international developments and technological change for HRM. It engages with topical concerns around transformation, digital HRM, ethics, job quality and flexibility at the workplace and in organisations. You will be expected to apply knowledge gained on the module to real work problems with the aim to enhance your professional and management capabilities
Syllabus information
- Introduction to sustainable strategic marketing
- Marketing analysis and planning for sustainability
- Sustainable marketing strategies
- Brand management and sustainability
- Products and services sustainable by design
- Pricing and distribution sustainable practices
- Sustainability in communications and relational marketing
Learners will undertake a series of short case studies throughout the week where they put into practice theory and models they have examined on the module. The case studies form the basis of the summative assessment and students will be expected to reflect on their behaviours and how their people management skills have developed as a result of undertaking the module
This module does not appear to have a published bibliography for this year.
Assessment items, weightings and deadlines
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Additional coursework information
Learners will undertake three interactive case studies in class which will form part of the assessment for the module. Students will be encouraged to reflect on how their people management skills and knowledge of HRM has developed on the module and in the context of completing the case studies and module learning materials.
Exam format definitions
- Remote, open book: Your exam will take place remotely via an online learning platform. You may refer to any physical or electronic materials during the exam.
- In-person, open book: Your exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer to any physical materials such as paper study notes or a textbook during the exam. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, open book (restricted): The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer only to specific physical materials such as a named textbook during the exam. Permitted materials will be specified by your department. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, closed book: The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may not refer to any physical materials or electronic devices during the exam. There may be times when a paper dictionary,
for example, may be permitted in an otherwise closed book exam. Any exceptions will be specified by your department.
Your department will provide further guidance before your exams.
Overall assessment
Reassessment
Module supervisor and teaching staff
Dr Anita Hammer and Dr Elaine Yerby
ebsmba@essex.ac.uk
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Dr Jessica Andrea Chelekis
Brunel University London
Senior Lecturer in Sustainability and Global Value Chains
Available via Moodle
No lecture recording information available for this module.
* Please note: due to differing publication schedules, items marked with an asterisk (*) base their information upon the previous academic year.
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