Postgraduate Course: Organising for Effectiveness (CMSE11604)
Course Outline
| School | Business School |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
| Course type | Online Distance Learning |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
| Summary | The OFE course deals with how organisations work ¿ how they can be made to work effectively and why things sometimes go wrong. We cover a wide range of topics, ranging from individual behaviour and team processes up to issues of decision-making, leadership, culture and organisational design and learning. In essence, the OFE course focuses on developing your understanding of what makes teams and organisations effective and what can impede their effectiveness. |
| Course description |
Academic description
The course covers a wide range of organisational issues from the micro-level (e.g., what factors shape how individuals make judgements and behave at work) to the macro-level (e.g., organisational design, culture, and learning).
This course introduces a wide range of concepts that can be used to diagnose a variety of organisational issues, for example, how people construe what is happening around them, the facilitators and inhibiters of team effectiveness, how to make good decisions, how organisations can be configured to achieve particular ends - efficiency, flexibility/ innovation, resilience, quality, consistency and so on. The emphasis is on developing your ability to diagnose and analyse complex organisational settings, and hence operate effectively. OFE emphasises the development of analytical skills, the translation of theory into practice and makes extensive use of experiential learning.
Outline content
Organisational challenges and trade-offs
Strategy and organisation
Group dynamics and high-performance teams
Decision-making and sense-making
Managing occupational stress
Culture and leadership
Organisational design and learning
Student learning experience
Pre-recorded lectures and online tutorials are supported via independent directed reading.
There will be opportunities for peer discussion and debate during the online tutorials, and students are encouraged to use concepts from the course to analyse situations that they have experienced or are currently experiencing at work/ personally. The aim is to incorporate a practical project running throughout the course based on a virtual team-working exercise (details tbc).
The emphasis of the course is on blending theory and practice by putting ideas and concepts to work. This is achieved by analysing cases, by discussing real world problems and by practical exercises that provide the opportunity for you to put the ideas into action.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2024/25, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Flexible |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
100
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Lecture Hours 16,
Online Activities 10,
Summative Assessment Hours 5,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
67 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
20% Group«br /»
80% Individual |
| Feedback |
Formative
A minimum of one piece of formative feedback will be provided per course. This may be offered asynchronously via discussion boards and emails, and synchronously in tutorials.
Summative
Feedback on assignments will be provided within 15 working days of submission. Summative marks will be returned on a published timetable, which will have been made clear to students at the start of the academic year. |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Understand and critically discuss key concepts from the field of Organisational Behaviour.
- Understand and critically discuss the importance of problem-solving to problem-resolution.
- Understand and critically evaluate a range of ideas about individual behaviour, team dynamics and effectiveness, leadership, decision-making and sense-making, organisational configuration and control, culture, change and learning.
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Reading List
| Buchanan D and A Huczynski (2019) Organisational Behaviour, 10th Edition, Prentice Hall. |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
C1 Meaningful Interpersonal Interaction
C2 Effective Emotional Intelligence
C3 Authentic Leadership
C4 Ethical, Responsible and Sustainable Business Behaviour
C5 Appropriate Communication
C6 Understand and Make Effective Use of Data
C7 Creative and Entrepreneurial Practice
C8 Personal and Professional Competence
C9 Academic Excellence
C10 Intellectual Curiosity |
| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Kristina Potocnik
Tel: (0131 6)50 4307
Email: Kristina.Potocnik@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Ms Sarah Yaxley
Tel: (0131 6)50 3475
Email: Sarah.Yaxley@ed.ac.uk |
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