ULMS Electronic Module Catalogue

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Title PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Code ULMS864
Coordinator Dr Y Liu
Work, Organisation and Management
Yihan.Liu@liverpool.ac.uk
Year CATS Level Semester CATS Value
Session 2020-21 Level 7 FHEQ First Semester 15

Pre-requisites before taking this module (other modules and/or general educational/academic requirements):

 

Modules for which this module is a pre-requisite:

 

Programme(s) (including Year of Study) to which this module is available on a required basis:

 

Programme(s) (including Year of Study) to which this module is available on an optional basis:

 

Teaching Schedule

  Lectures Seminars Tutorials Lab Practicals Fieldwork Placement Other TOTAL
Study Hours   10

      14

24
Timetable (if known)              
Private Study 126
TOTAL HOURS 150

Assessment

EXAM Duration Timing
(Semester)
% of
final
mark
Resit/resubmission
opportunity
Penalty for late
submission
Notes
             
CONTINUOUS Duration Timing
(Semester)
% of
final
mark
Resit/resubmission
opportunity
Penalty for late
submission
Notes
Online action learning set. There is a resit opportunity. Standard UoL penalty applies for late submission. This is not an anonymous assessment.  -2000 words    30       
Individual essay. There is a resit opportunity. UoL penalty applies for late submission. This is not an anonymous assessment.  -2000 words    70       

Aims

This module aims to develop students’ self-awareness in relation to their values, behaviours, motivations, and development of their skills in leadership and management. It enables reflection on current and future skill and knowledge needs, and supports personal and career development planning. The module aims to develop students as reflective management practitioners within their own context.    Specific skills development activities are supported through an action learning that encourages students to examine real management problems or issues using their own experiences and case study material.


Learning Outcomes

(LO1) Recognise and reflect upon own values, perspectives, motivations and behaviours and those of others in a global context, and the impact these can have within groups and organisations. Explain how values and ethics impact on professional practice.

(LO2) Explain and interpret the types of professional and ethical dilemmas managers may encounter and have to deal with. Use and apply theory appropriately to explain the nature of these situations and why they occur and propose how managers’ workplace behaviour may be consciously adapted to recognise and resolve them.

(LO3) Identify own needs for development of the management and leadership skills both relevant to students' own context and to the wider field of management in a globalised world.

(LO4) Demonstrate a high level of self-awareness by generating, analysing and reflecting on feedback from a range of sources in relation to personal/interpersonal/leadership and management skills.

(LO5) Recognise the need for managers' continuous learning and development, and to acquire skills and techniques to improve practice.

(S1) Reflective and reflexive approach to own learning. This will be developed through module readings and action learning.

(S2) Resilience and the ability to absorb and act on feedback. This will be developed through the discussion board, action learning and reflective exercise throughout the module.

(S3) An action orientation. This will be developed through action learning and the coursework.

(S4) Ethical awareness. This will be developed through lectures and application of scholarly work to case material.

(S5) Teamwork. This will be developed through VLE activity.


Teaching and Learning Strategies

Hybrid delivery, with social distancing on campus.

Online asynchronous learning materials x 14 hours

Face-to-face seminars x 10 hours

Self-directed learning x 126 hours.

Students will be expected to utilise self-directed learning hours to undertake individual lecture preparation and preparation in their groups for the action learning sets, searching academic literature, wider reading, reviewing lecture material, note-taking and assessment preparation.


Syllabus

 

Management and leadership:

Action learning;
Tensions and contradictions of management practice;
Narratives of leadership and the ‘hero’ leader;
Authentic and transformational leadership.

Professionalism and the manager as a professional:

The nature of professionalism;
Profession v. organisation.

Values:

Personal and organisational values in management.

Corporate and personal ethics:

CSR and its effects on the practice of managers;
Developing a set personal ethics to guide practice;
Ethical leadership;
Ethical decision making.

Reflective and reflexive practice:

Learning and practising in a critical mode;
Models of reflexive practice;
Critical reflection and reflexive critique.


Recommended Texts

Reading lists are managed at readinglists.liverpool.ac.uk. Click here to access the reading lists for this module.