EG212-5-AT-CO:
Event Operations 2 (Assessed in Future Year)
2023/24
Edge Hotel School
Colchester Campus
Autumn Special
Undergraduate: Level 5
Current
Wednesday 01 June 2022
Wednesday 05 October 2022
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31 March 2021
Requisites for this module
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BA N8N6 Events Management with Hospitality
This module continues from the first module, Event Operations 1 by providing you with the opportunity to develop the knowledge of supervising teams as well as aspects of operational management. You will analyse the constituents that make up successful teams. You will develop further the knowledge and application required for the successful planning and organising of your teams for the delivery of products and services to customers in all aspects of event management
operations.
This module aims to enable you to:
1. Determine and critically evaluate the resources required within the event operations.
- Resource management (human, physical, e.g. materials, equipment, financial including purchasing and stock control);
- Management tools in resource planning.
2. Critically evaluate the skills required to deliver the services and products being
produced for the event guests.
- Skills needs analysis;
- Guest expectations of service delivery;
- Event service and product improvements.
3. Critically analyse and evaluate the constituents of a successful team.
- Training and skills analysis;
- The importance of leadership;
- Working together for common aims and objectives;
- Event Team organisation.
4. Determine criteria by which to evaluate operational performance.
- Performance measurement and evaluation techniques;
- Benchmarks of operational performance.
At the conclusion of this module you should be able to:
1. Determine and critically evaluate the resources required within the event operations.
2. Critically evaluate the skills required to deliver the services and products being produced for the event guests.
3. Plan, organise and implement an event within the requirements of a specific brief.
4. Determine the criteria and evaluate operational performance of the event.
No additional information available.
Learning and teaching will take the shape of either classroom based or online lectures and seminars where Wivenhoe House will be used to contextualize theory and illustrate practice. Self-managed learning will supplement seminars where you will be provided with guidance on required reading and on-line learning resources.
This module does not appear to have a published bibliography for this year.
Assessment items, weightings and deadlines
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Deadline |
Coursework weighting |
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Group Presentation |
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| Coursework |
Business Report |
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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 Philip Berners, email: p.berners@essex.ac.uk.
Philip Berners
Edge Hotel School, ehs@essex.ac.uk
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Available via Moodle
Of 24 hours, 0 (0%) hours available to students:
0 hours not recorded due to service coverage or fault;
24 hours not recorded due to opt-out by lecturer(s).
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