Business Management Assignment Brief
BSc (Hons) Business Management Assignment Brief
Module Title: Personal and Professional Skills for Management
Module Credit Value
20
Module Level 4, Group 2
Academic Year 2019-2020/ Term 1
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this module, students will be able to:
- Demonstrate an understanding of effective communication skills and how they can affect workplace behaviour.
- Apply knowledge and understanding of effective negotiation and influencing skills in order to achieve a pre-determined objective
Module Description
The module examines the personal and professional skills needed to successfully manage individuals in a business context. The role of people is critical to maximising performance, and therefore an understanding of how to effectively communicate and influence workplace behaviour is a fundamental skill. Managers also need to understand how inter-personal conflict arises, and an ability to coach and develop people in order to achieve a productive workforce.
Module Aim
The aim of the assignment is to expose the students to the essential requirements of personal and professional development skills that managers need to develop and manage a business successfully.
LOs 1 and 2: Reflective assignment as part of completing a Learning Log – 2,000 words +/-10% (50% Weighting)
Assignment 1 – (Reflective Account) 2000 words
Reflective log – Group work during the taught session (individual assignment)
LOs 1 and 2:
Reflective assignment as part of completing a Learning Log – 2,000 words. This assignment requires that students work together in different groups for a period of five-six weeks and concentrate on different activities and task during taught sessions. Students will demonstrate a clear understanding of effective communication skills and how they can affect workplace behaviour. It is expected that student will record daily experience during the group interactions / activities in line with the key assessment areas in the reflective log. In addition, it is essential that students show clear evidence of how knowledge and understanding of effective negotiation and influencing skills are applied in order to achieve a pre-determined objective. The lecturer will observe each student’s behaviour and group dynamic and provide formative feedback where and when necessary.
A detailed reflective log for five weeks must be provided with sound and clear evidence that:
- demonstrates an understanding of effective communication skills and how they can affect workplace behaviour.
- shows how knowledge and understanding of effective negotiation and influencing skills have been applied in order to achieve a pre-determined objective.
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Suggestion:
A developmental learning, collection and collation of evidence from the first week will help you to create a road map and good portfolio of reflective learning logs that could be summarised for your essay.
Information from the learning logs will be used to develop a 2000-word reflective summary that analyses effective communication in the workplace and how negotiation and personal influence had been applied to achieve a predetermined objective. The reflective summary will include both work-based experience and involvement in class activities.