Course content

Core modules

Foundation in Management & Organisational Analysis

Learn to appreciate the basic social scientific foundations of the analysis of management and organisations and gain the study skills required to prosper on our course.

Organisational Behaviour

Explore major themes in the analysis of management and organisations. Take a broad view of organisational behaviour and explore the links between psychology, organisational psychology and sociology, and management science as a means of understanding current organisational practices such as selection, motivation, team-working, and change.

Globalisation, Governance, & the Restructuring of Firms

Study the major frameworks for understanding how economic and organisational activity is coordinated under conditions of global competition. Draw on comparative studies of firms, nations, and globalisation processes to explore how institutional settings are reshaped and the impact this has on organisational and managerial practices.

Researching Organisations

Explore the strengths and weaknesses of various research methods and gain the necessary training to undertake a piece of sustained research, leading to the production of your dissertation.

Organising Identity

Explore questions of identity not only as they relate to the management and lives of individual employees, but also how firms and corporations represent themselves and seek to manage their public presentation. Study a range of approaches to identity and its relationship to processes of management and organisation; particularly in relation to how specific organised identities are assembled and accomplished, and how they are conceptualised by those seeking to initiate changes in organisational and personal conduct.

Innovation & Knowledge Work

Consider the ways in which the successful exploitation and management of new ideas is a major imperative, and a key challenge, for organisations and nations seeking to prosper in an increasingly globalised economy. Explore the social and processual nature of innovative activities, taking a multi-level perspective on innovation that explicitly addresses the interplay between macro institutional arrangements, meso-level networks, and micro processes of change within (and across) organisations.