Trends in Work and Organisations

Code

BUSI2190

School

Nottingham University Business School China

Level

2

Credits

10

Semesters

Spring China

Summary

This module is designed to 1) provide students with a critical understanding of the development trends of work, career, and organisations as well as challenges observed in the changing workplace and organisations; 2) help students to develop mindset and expertise in the area of personal and professional development.

The module will contain three parts: 
The development trends of work and organisational career.
Key topics include changing forms of work with a particular focus on the new types of work such as gig workers and virtual/remote work; fundamentals of organisational career and career development in time of changes and uncertainty, etc
The development trends of workplace and organisations.

1. Key topics include digitalised workplace, human-centered organisational development, managing diversity and changes, etc 
2. Working in the changing organisations. 
3. The focus of this part will be on methods, techniques, and strategies to optimize human capital by combining personal and organizational factors for career development assessment, information, organizational culture, motivational styles, work values and other processes for influencing individual and organizational change. This will enable students to gain practical knowledge and skill set, with which students are able to take ownership of their personal and professional development in the changing organisations.

Re-assessment format is decided by the school.

Target Students

Part I students

Classes

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

Assessment

• 60% Coursework 1: Individual coursework (1500 words)
• 30% Presentation 1: Group Poster Presentation (15 mins presentation including Q&As and Digital Poster to be submitted)
• 10% Coursework 2: Individual Reflection Diary (500 words)

Assessed by end of spring semester

Educational Aims

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and understanding: 

This module develops a knowledge and understanding of:

• Leadership, management and development of people and organisations including the implications of the legal context.
• The need for individuals and organisations to manage responsibly and sustainably and behave ethically in relation to social, cultural, economic and environmental issues.
• The design, development of organisations, including cross-cultural issues, change, diversity and values.

Other:

• Global perspectives, models and theories of people and organisational development, organisational career development development, managing change and its influence on people development

Intellectual skills: 

This module develops:

• The ability to analyse facts and circumstances to determine the cause of a problem and identifying and selecting appropriate solutions.
• Conceptual and critical thinking, analysis, synthesis and evaluation.

Other: 

• Recognition of cross-cultural issues in own practice, Self and career awareness

Professional practical skills: 

This module develops:

• Self-analysis and awareness/sensitivity to diversity in terms of people and cultures. This includes a continuing appetite for development.
• People management, to include communications, team building, leadership and motivating others.

Other:

• The ability to apply one’s learning and own experience to career practices; the ability to take initiatives and manage the self.

Transferable (key) skills: 

This module develops:

• Communication and listening including the ability to produce clear, structured business communications in a variety of media.
• Self-management and a readiness to accept responsibility and flexibility, to be resilient, self-starting and appropriately assertive, to plan, organise and manage time.
• An awareness of the interpersonal skills of effective listening, negotiating, persuasion and presentation and their use in generating business contacts.
• Ability to work collaboratively both internally and with external customers and an awareness of mutual interdependence.
• Ability to work with people from a range of cultures.
• Articulating and effectively explaining information.
• Emotional intelligence and empathy.

Other: 

• Learning Agility, Digital competences, Reflection and reflective practice

Conveners

• Dr Feng Xuan