Management Strategy

Code

BUSI2112

School

Nottingham University Business School China

Level

2

Credits

10

Semesters

Autumn China

Summary

This module provides participants with a theoretical and applied overview of strategic management in today's operational environment. It introduces and analyses the key concepts, frameworks and techniques of strategic management, which allow them to diagnose complex situations related to real-world business development.

Re-assessment format is decided by the school.

Target Students

Compulsory for FAM students.

Classes

• One 1-hour-30-minute seminar each week for 2 weeks
• One 1-hour-30-minute lecture each week for 11 weeks

Activities may take place every teaching week of the Semester or only in specified weeks. It is usually specified above if an activity only takes place in some weeks of a Semester Further Activity Details:11 1.5-hour lectures and 2 1.5-hour seminars. Please note all non-lectures will be timetabled in the Business School

Assessment

• 100% Exam 1 (2-hour): 2-hour exam

Assessed by end of autumn semester

Educational Aims

Learning Outcomes

A. Knowledge and understanding
This module develops a knowledge and understanding of:

• The development and operation of markets for resources, goods and services.
• The management of resources and operations.
• The development of appropriate business policies and strategies to meet stakeholder needs within a changing environment.
• The importance of sustainability issues, including an understanding of the challenges and opportunities arising from the activities of people and organisations on the economic, social and environmental conditions of the future.

B. Intellectual skills
This module develops:

• The cognitive skills of critical thinking, analysis and synthesis, including the ability to identify assumptions, evaluate statements in terms of evidence, to detect false logic or reasoning, to identify implicit values, and to define terms adequately and to generalise appropriately.
• Effective qualitative problem solving and decision making skills.
• The ability to create, evaluate and access a range of options, together with the capacity to apply ideas and knowledge to a range of business and other situations.

C. Professional practical skills
This module develops:

• Qualitative skills including the ability to work with case studies.
• The ability to apply business models to business problems and phenomena.

D. Transferable (key) skills
This module develops:

• Effective oral and written communication skills in a range of traditional and electronic media.
• Effective self-management in terms of time, planning and behaviour, motivation, self-starting, individual initiative and enterprise.
• Learning to learn and developing an appetite for reflective, adaptive and collaborative learning.

Conveners

• Dr Steven Zhou