EG220-5-AP-CO:
Management and Leadership
2023/24
Edge Hotel School
Colchester Campus
Autumn & Spring
Undergraduate: Level 5
Current
Thursday 05 October 2023
Friday 22 March 2024
15
03 February 2022
Requisites for this module
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BA N888 Events Management,
BA NA88 Events Management (Including Year Abroad),
FDA N889 Events Management
This module will equip you with a range of management and leadership skills to support your career development in the hospitality and event industries. You will identify how reflective practice enhances the effectiveness of managers, and assess your own skills set, identifying areas for development. You will show appreciation of the types of management skills that are transferable from academia to the work of hospitality and event managers, for example team working, delegation and self-management.
This module aims to enable you to:
1. Evaluate the relevance of reflective practice, demonstrating an ability to reflect ‘on-action’.
- Reflective practice and reflexivity;
- Learning journals/diaries;
- Critical incident reports;
- Schön’s in-action and on-action model;
- Personality tree.
2. Carry out self-assessments of management and leadership skills and identify areas for improvement.
- Communication skills;
- Interpersonal skills;
- Resilience;
- Prioritising workload;
- Team work;
- Leadership skills;
- Personality types.
3. Demonstrate competence in relevant management and leadership skills.
- Communicating effectively with others;
- Conflict management;
- Team work;
- Time management;
- Delegation;
- Leadership skills.
4. Analyse theories of management and leadership and apply theories to own learning/skills acquisition.
- Transactional analysis;
- Emotional intelligence;
- Leadership theories;
- Johari window;
- Jung Typology of human metrics;
- Motivation.
At the conclusion of this module you should be able to:
1. Evaluate the relevance of reflective practice and personal development planning, demonstrating an ability to reflect ‘on-action’.
2. Carry out self-assessments of management and leadership skills and identify areas for improvement.
3. Demonstrate competence in relevant management and leadership skills.
4. Analyse theories of management and leadership and apply theories to own learning/skills acquisition.
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
| Coursework / exam |
Description |
Deadline |
Coursework weighting |
| Coursework |
Individual Reflective Report |
24/05/2024 |
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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
Ms Jennifer Kaye, email: jennifer.kaye@essex.ac.uk.
Jennifer Kaye
Edge Hotel School, ehs@essex.ac.uk
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Available via Moodle
No lecture recording information available for this module.
Edge Hotel School
* Please note: due to differing publication schedules, items marked with an asterisk (*) base their information upon the previous academic year.
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