Contemporary Management Studies

• provide management students the opportunity to identify and engage with recent developments in theory and practice within and across the domain of management studies
• analyse current and emerging problems in management practise through a variety of critical academic ‘lenses'
• apply critical perspectives to these ‘sites of application', that is in relation to issues that are of contemporary relevance to managers.

Learning Outcome 1: Critically assess and demonstrate a clear understanding of current debates and issues in managerial practice.
Learning Outcome 2: Demonstrate and apply a critical understanding of relevant philosophical issues underpinning approaches to management research
Learning Outcome 3: Select and apply relevant research approaches to an identified and specific site of management action
Learning Outcome 4: Explain the way in which a philosophically informed understanding of management issues may make a significant contribution to the achievement of organisational goals.
Learning Outcome 5: Develop independent study and research skills through the detailed study of a current management technique, model or theories
Learning Outcome 6: Critically discuss the effect this current management technique, model or theory might have on managerial practice, using clearly justified argument based on relevant literature
Learning Outcome 7: Identify and justify appropriate research approach for evaluating these implications
Learning Outcome 8: Actively contribute to the debate on the how different approaches to management problems may yield new insights into those problems.

1. You will need to investigate your given topic for your presentation.
• Make sure that the Team Leader allocates tasks to both members
• Make sure that everyone understands what they have to do and by when
• Make sure someone has the responsibility of putting the slides together
• Decide who will do the voice over
• Make sure that both team members contribute and approve the final PowerPoint presentation before it is submitted to the Discussion Board