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BMGT43350

Academic Year 2024/2025

Behavioral Strategy and Leadership (BMGT43350)

Subject:
Business Management
College:
Business
School:
Business
Level:
4 (Masters)
Credits:
10
Module Coordinator:
Dr Camilla Noonan
Trimester:
Spring
Mode of Delivery:
On Campus
Internship Module:
No
How will I be graded?
Letter grades

Curricular information is subject to change.

Conventional strategy tends to be conceptualised as a rational, intentional activity that is rooted in analysis and formal planning. This conceptualisation tends to elevate analytical skills leading some to suggest that in so doing, it has dehumanized management. This module seeks to closely examine this understanding and its assumptions and then consider alternative ways of understanding/conceptualising agency. Specifically, it explores the potential relevance and influence of scholarship within the broader social sciences on strategic management, theory and practice. By examining a range of assumptions about human cognition, emotion and social interaction, we will endeavour to ground strategy in different, perhaps more realistic, assumptions about people and organising. The overall aim is to explore what a more humanized conceptualisation of strategy implies for managers/leaders and the kinds of skills that managers need to develop if they are to become more effective.

About this Module

Learning Outcomes:

On completing this module you will be expected to:

- Be able to trace and critically analyse how strategy is typically conceptualised and what this means for managers and their required skill sets.
- Articulate why there have been repeated calls to incorporate “behaviour” into strategy research and teaching.
- Be able to explain the ways in which behavioural considerations go to the heart of strategising processes.
- Be able to competently explore the kinds of management/leadership practices and skills needed when attempting to introduce and promote strategic change in an organisation.

Indicative Module Content:

Conventional understandings of strategic leadership
Expertise and the role of emotion
Uncertainty, anxiety and the "authentic" leader
Power, Politics and successful strategic initiatives
Exploring the the dialogic skills needed for effective strategic management
Strategic Leadership – from science to craft
Changing cultural practices via leadership practices

Student Effort Hours:
Student Effort Type Hours
Specified Learning Activities

70
Autonomous Student Learning

94
Lectures

36
Total

200

Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
Interactive seminars
Case-based learning

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
Exam (In-person): Closed book exam. End of trimester
Duration:
2 hr(s)
 Graded Yes
100
 Yes

Carry forward of passed components
Yes
 

Resit In Terminal Exam
Summer Yes - 2 Hour
Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 

Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Group/class feedback, post-assessment

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Not yet recorded.

Timetabling information is displayed only for guidance purposes, relates to the current Academic Year only and is subject to change.
Spring Lecture Offering 1 Week(s) - 20, 21, 23, 24, 25, 26, 29, 30, 31, 32 Mon 14:00 - 16:50
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