BMGT45700

Learning Outcomes:

Having successfully completed this module, the student will be able to

1. Explore management challenges in contemporary organisational settings;
2. Improve teamworking skills, including those related to collaboration, and decision-making;
3. Actively engage in evidence-based self-reflection of their own skills and experiences as important and relevant predictors of their effectiveness;
4. Identify and apply skills and tools that are useful for analysing individual, group, and organisation level people and performance relevant issues
5. Critically analyse and assess issues at individual, group, and organisation level
6. Apply knowledge to issues relevant to managers and organisations

Indicative Module Content:

Topic One – Truth of the Matter
Topic Two – Introduction to Organisational Behaviour
Topic Three – Personality and Values
Topic Four – MBTI
Topic Five – Workplace Emotions & Attitudes
Topic Six – Motivation
Topic Seven – Teams at Work
Topic Eight – Global Virtual Teams
Topic Nine - Cultural Intelligence
Topic Ten - Leadership Foundations
Topic Eleven - Organisational Culture
Topic Twelve - Global Leadership
Topic Thirteen - The Dark Side of Leadership
Topic Fourteen - Leading Change

UNESCO highlights a set of key competencies that support individuals in their development and support society in achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). UCD has adapted these competencies and is combining them with others to form a general framework of learning competencies. This module will help you develop the competencies below to the levels specified. 

The United Nations identified seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as core to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and UCD contributes in general to SDG 4 Quality Education. Further SDGs explored within this module if relevant are listed below. A scale of 1 - 5 indicates the extent to which the SDG is covered.


 

Student Effort Hours:

Approaches to Teaching and Learning:

All students must take an active role in achieving the learning outcomes by engaging with the module lectures and readings.
The module includes the following learning approaches: lectures, discussions, (team) activities, cases and psychometric profiling.

Artificial Intelligence
AI (artificial intelligence) tools such as ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, Notion, Magic Write in Canva and many others are here to stay. I encourage you to explore and utilise them just as you would explore and utilise any other tools available to you to help access and structure your thinking. They can be an excellent way to surface materials, ideas and sources of information. You should note however, that the ethical principles for original work have not changed, nor have the rules around plagiarism, which are fundamentally that you should not pass off the work of others (including chatbots) as your own. Text generated by AI tools is regarded as plagiarised unless the sources are fully cited.

In their current form, the AI engines are impressive on the surface, but it is clear that the more effort you put into asking them really good questions, the better the responses generated will be. Learning to ask the right questions is a skill that will differentiate you in the market, as well as your ability to synthesise such information with your own knowledge, experience and reflective insight to add value to the task at hand. Don’t blindly assume that responses from a chatbot are correct. Many are not, so it’s important to check the veracity of statements, and as always, include the full source citation of any statement or quotation (whether directly quoted or paraphrased) from external publications. If you do utilise AI in the preparation of any of your assignments, you must include a section in your introduction or early in your submission explaining what you used AI for, and the prompts you used to surface your results. Failure to do this will be regarded as a violation of the academic integrity rules already in existence, and will be penalised accordingly.


Students must use the Harvard Referencing system - https://libguides.ucd.ie/harvardstyle

Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Not applicable to this module.

Module Requisites and Incompatibles

Not applicable to this module.
 

Assessment Strategy

As part of UCD's student support, under the Additional Consideration policy, extensions may be available for the following assessments in the module: Assignment (including essay/poster), Portfolio, Reflective Assignment, Report(s), and Individual Project.

 

Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 

Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Group feedback for the MBTI papers - recorded commentary. Audio feedback for team video assignment and audio feedback for pairs projects. Audio feedback is delivered via Brightspace