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BMGT45270

Academic Year 2020/2021

The Human Side of Innovation (BMGT45270)

Subject:
Business Management
College:
Business
School:
Business
Level:
4 (Masters)
Credits:
10
Module Coordinator:
Professor Julia Backmann
Trimester:
Spring
Mode of Delivery:
Online
Internship Module:
No
How will I be graded?
Letter grades

Curricular information is subject to change.

People are an organization's most critical resources. Their experience, knowledge, and skills along with their creativity, effort, and engagement are the basis for competitive advantage. People propose new ideas or improvements to current products and processes. Therefore, the focus of this module is on the human side of innovation. This module offers in-depth insights into innovation management and organisational behaviour by examining the nature of individual and team behaviours in innovative work environments and by discussing how behaviours, emotions, and cognitions affect creativity and innovation. The module will discuss and explore different topics at the individual, the team, and the organisational level in class. For instance, it focuses on topics related to assessing and fostering creativity, innovator's resilience after failure experiences, organisational culture and change, and social innovation.

Participants are encouraged to explore the interconnected nature of the various topics to be covered and to develop a holistic and critical understanding of the subject. A variety of different teaching and learning methods will be applied (e.g., presentations, case studies, reflective exercises) and participants are expected to be actively involved in classes.

About this Module

Learning Outcomes:

The objective of this module is to increase your understanding and abilities of how to effectively manage innovators in today’s work environments and develop organizations to remain competitive and innovative in today's fast changing world. At the end of the module, you should be able to:
1. … understand why individuals, leaders, and teams behave and interact as they do in innovative organisational contexts.
2. …apply concepts, tools, and theories useful for diagnosing and analysing innovators and innovative organisations and improve creativity.
3. …critically assess challenges and opportunities for today’s organisations and discuss and identify research and managerial implications at the intersection or organisational behavior and innovation management.
4. …reflect upon your competencies and traits so that you are able to become a more effective employee, co-worker, and leader.

Student Effort Hours:
Student Effort Type Hours
Lectures

36

Specified Learning Activities

70

Autonomous Student Learning

120

Total

226


Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
Pre-recorded and virtual live lectures, discussions, student presentations, cases, simulation

Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Not applicable to this module.


Module Requisites and Incompatibles
Not applicable to this module.
 

Assessment Strategy
Description Timing Open Book Exam Component Scale Must Pass Component % of Final Grade In Module Component Repeat Offered
Continuous Assessment: Quizzes, in-class contributions, presentation and essay. Throughout the Trimester n/a Graded No
100
No

Carry forward of passed components
No
 

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
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Not yet recorded.