Managing People & Organisations (702N1AJ)

15 credits, Level 7 (Masters)

Summer teaching

On this module, you’ll learn evidence-based key practices to manage people in organisations. You’ll develop a broader view of Human Resource Management theories and analyse specific managerial practices to:

• motivate people
• deliver change
• influence strategy.

The module is designed to support your learning and development as a reflective and critical practitioner. You’ll focus on learning through reflection in order to challenge, critique and make evidence-based decisions on organisational issues.

There are opportunities for collaborative learning and exploring managerial practices in a diverse range of organisations. You’ll examine a specific and anticipated managerial challenge, using the theories you’ve learnt in the module to generate solutions.

Participants will be asked to reflect on aspects of ethics, sustainability and social responsibility, in their own people management practice.

Contact hours and workload

This module is approximately 150 hours of work. This breaks down into about 40 hours of contact time and about 110 hours of independent study. The University may make minor variations to the contact hours for operational reasons, including timetabling requirements.

We regularly review our modules to incorporate student feedback, staff expertise, as well as the latest research and teaching methodology. We’re planning to run these modules in the academic year 2026/27. However, there may be changes to these modules in response to feedback, staff availability, student demand or updates to our curriculum.

We’ll make sure to let you know of any material changes to modules at the earliest opportunity.