EG220-5-AP-CO:
Management and Leadership
2024/25
Edge Hotel School
Colchester Campus
Autumn & Spring
Undergraduate: Level 5
Current
Thursday 03 October 2024
Friday 21 March 2025
15
25 March 2024
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.
The aims of this module are:
- 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.
- Carry out self-assessments of management and leadership skills and identify areas for improvement.
- Communication skills.
- Interpersonal skills.
- Resilience
- Prioritising workload
- Teamwork
- Leadership skills
- Personality types.
- Demonstrate competence in relevant management and leadership skills.
- Communicating effectively with others
- Conflict management
- Teamwork
- Time management
- Delegation
- Leadership skills.
- 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.
By the end of this module, students will be expected to be able to:
- Evaluate the relevance of reflective practice and personal development planning, demonstrating an ability to reflect ‘on-action’.
- Carry out self-assessments of management and leadership skills and identify areas for improvement.
- Demonstrate competence in relevant management and leadership skills.
- 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 classroom based 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 |
23/05/2025 |
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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
Of 14 hours, 14 (100%) hours available to students:
0 hours not recorded due to service coverage or fault;
0 hours not recorded due to opt-out by lecturer(s), module, or event type.
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