Unit name | Researching Organisations, Institutions and Management |
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Unit code | EFIMM0045 |
Credit points | 20 |
Level of study | M/7 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 2 (weeks 13 - 24) |
Unit director | Professor. Beck |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
Successfully completed introductory modules on research methods and design (e.g. TB1 modules of qualitative and quantitative methods) |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | School of Management - Business School |
Faculty | Faculty of Social Sciences and Law |
The unit will investigate empirical research approaches and activities focusing on organisations and institutions, including management. It will identify the different streams and core concepts of research in management and organisation studies and map these against dominant methodological traditions and issues. Individual methodologies and methods (including mixed methodologies, natural experiments, ethnography, action research, comparative analysis, case studies and ‘evidence-based’ approaches) will then be examined and assessed in the specific context of organisational and institutional research using ‘classic’, current and/or innovative organisational and management research studies and with a focus on addressing specific challenges including those of access, analysis, ethics, stakeholder engagement, making research ‘impactful’ and promoting and communicating findings to both academic and user audiences.
Students successfully completing this unit will be able to:
Combination of lectures, seminars, practical exercises/student presentations.
Formative assessment
Compose a mock press release or blog of no more than 800 words on a classic study of an organisation and present this to peers, demonstrating understanding and the ability to synthesise and report key research findings for a “practitioner” audience (ILOs 1 and 3).
Summative assessment
Students will review research on an organisation or institution of their choice and write a 4,000 word report for the main stakeholders, explaining the distinctiveness of the research and the implications of the research findings for the organisation’s/ institution’s stated vision and mission and/or strategy/policies and practices.
Students will be assessed on both the synthesis of research data and where it fits within organisation studies overall (ILOs 1 and 3), including an assessment of methodological strengths/weaknesses of the major studies in question and how challenges were addressed (ILOs 2 and 3), and their ability to translate research findings into ‘useful/usable’ information for stakeholders (ILO 3).