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SBUS41060

Academic Year 2024/2025

Strategic Decision Making (SBUS41060)

Subject:
Business
College:
Business
School:
Business
Level:
4 (Masters)
Credits:
5
Module Coordinator:
Professor Patrick Gibbons
Trimester:
Autumn&Spring&Summer(separate)
Mode of Delivery:
On Campus
Internship Module:
No
How will I be graded?
Letter grades

Curricular information is subject to change.

Most strategic decisions are made by top management teams because they involve complex judgements and require diversity of input and team commitment to implementation. This module will focus on how decisions are made and how they are influenced by top management team characteristics and dynamics.

About this Module

Learning Outcomes:

The learning outcomes from this module include:• Having greater insight into the design principles to be used in evaluating the top management team’s ability and relative competence in making and implementing strategic decisions;• Being in a position to improve one’s individual contributions to top management team decisions as a result of superior personal awareness of how one operates in team decision-making situations;• Having superior insight into potential biases that influence top management team decisions and how to overcome these biases;• Developing analytical skills in making strategic decisions;• Enhanced ability to influence and design strategy review processes.

Student Effort Hours:
Student Effort Type Hours
Lectures

16

Specified Learning Activities

60

Autonomous Student Learning

40

Total

116


Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
The module has a detailed study guide. Students are required to complete the module pre-reading or pre-work prior to attending the seminar sessions. The sessions themselves will be a combination of lectures, group discussion, in-class presentations, case study discussions and classroom exercises. A heavy emphasis in the seminars is on teasing out the implications of theory for practical application in a workplace context.

Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Not applicable to this module.


Module Requisites and Incompatibles
Not applicable to this module.
 

Assessment Strategy  
Description Timing Component Scale Must Pass Component % of Final Grade In Module Component Repeat Offered
Participation in Learning Activities: Participation grade Week 7 Graded No

25

No
Assignment(Including Essay): Post module assignment Week 15 Graded No

75

Yes

Carry forward of passed components
Yes
 

Remediation Type Remediation Timing
In-Module Resit Prior to relevant Programme Exam Board
Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 

Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Feedback will be provided within 20 days of the assignment deadline

Name Role
Assoc Professor Dorota Piaskowska Tutor