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Management Knowledge 2 (P00316)

? Credit Points : 20  ? SCQF Level : 11  ? Acronym : MSE-P-P00316

Knowledge Management 2 covers components in Business Ethics, Organisation Studies, Marketing, Operations Management, and Career and Personal Development.

Entry Requirements

? Pre-requisites : PGs Only

? Co-requisites : Management Knowledge 1

? Costs : None

Subject Areas

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : Full Year (Blocks 1-4)

? Contact Teaching Time : 8 hour(s) per week for 10 weeks

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

To provide a knowledge of the basic management disciplines of Ethics, Human Resource Management, Marketing, and Operations Management.
To allow the student to discuss with professionals in those fields in a well-informed manner.
To enable the student to question professionals in those fields perceptively, and to see through jargon-filled but vacuous argument from those professionals.
To provide a base for further study in those fields as required in the Option courses.
To provide knowledge of key business competencies relating to "soft skills", key models relating to the competencies of teamworking, leadership and communication and application of industry utilised diagnostic techniques

Assessment Information

Each component will include examinations appropriate to it: Business Ethics: a group project (100%). Organisation Studies: a two hour examination in Week 13 of the Semester (100%). Marketing: a two hour examination in Week 13 of the Semester (100%), Operations Management: a 2 hour examination (100%), Career and Personal Development: 3,000 word report.

Exam times

Diet Diet Month Paper Code Paper Name Length
1ST December 1 Marketing 2 hour(s)
1ST December 2 Operations Management 2 hour(s)
1ST December 3 Organisation Studies 2 hour(s)

Contact and Further Information

The Course Secretary should be the first point of contact for all enquiries.

Course Secretary

Mrs Freda Paterson
Tel : (0131 6)50 8065
Email : f.paterson@ed.ac.uk

Course Organiser

Dr Inger Seiferheld
Tel : (0131 6)50 3801
Email : Inger.Seiferheld@ed.ac.uk

School Website : http://www.man.ed.ac.uk/

College Website : http://www.hss.ed.ac.uk/

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