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DOWT4001: Foundations in Management Theory and Practice

• Terms Taught: Michaelmas 
• US Credits: 5
• ECTS Credits: 10
• Pre-requisites: None

DOWT5001: Understanding People and Management

• Terms Taught: Lent/Summer
• US Credits: 5
• ECTS Credits: 10
• Pre-requisites: None

Course Description

This module aims to

• Provide the resources that can help students explore the assumptions that underpin how people are understood in the workplace
• Demonstrate how these understandings of people lead to the implementation of certain management practices.
• Encourage students to question the strengths and limitations of these management practices
• Explore changing forms of management control
• Consider how the meaning and identity of employees are shaped through the use of corporate culture, workspaces and emotions
• Give students to the opportunity to explore the ideas presented throughout the module with a group of their peers and present their own collective interpretations
• Develop and demonstrate their individual engagement with the content through a reflective piece of writing

Educational Aims

Upon successful completion of this module students will be able to…

1. Understand the role that psychological ideas play in management and organisational people practices
2. Analyse how people are managed and might be managed effectively within organisations
3. Identify trends in the changing context of management, including both the environment of the organisation and changes at the level of the organisation;??
4. Discuss management as a social process, rather than simply as a technical or rational activity;??
5. Better understand day-to-day organisational experience as it relates to management
6. Be able to develop an argument and defend this with relevant fact and theory;?
7. Will have developed critical thinking skills and be able to analyse perspectives coming from different sources

Outline Syllabus

This module will help you understand people and how they are managed and controlled in the workplace. It will draw on social and organisational psychology and explore how these ideas with this field of study have been used to design management and work practices. It starts with a focus on understanding people in the workplace through psychological perspectives. You will be introduced to practices such as psychometric personality testing, as well as different techniques of motivation. The module will then move from the individualistic to the organisational. You will explore new forms of control and how work changed from something we do, to who and what we are. We examine how managers and management practices shape the meaning and identity of employees, using corporate culture, workspaces and work environments, humour and emotions, to align individuals with organisational goals.

Assessment Proportions

This module is core for a number of management programmes and optional for others. All the programmes to which it contributes are within the management school and have therefore a strong management focus with critical, reflexive and transferrable skills being a fundamental necessity for all modules/programmes. The learning, teaching, and assessment strategy for this module has been designed with that in mind. Assessment 1: Individual piece: students will be asked to use Moodle discussion boards on a weekly basis to reflect on the learning that has taken place in the weekly lectures. They will be given a week, following the lecture, to do this. These weekly reflections will form the basis of Assessment 3 (to be highlighted below). (10%) Assessment 2: Group Work: this written assessment will ask students to develop a critical resource for managers, based on perspectives and ideas (critical understandings of people in the workplace, and social contextual and relational approaches to management) discussed and introduced on the module. The assessment aims to encourage students to challenge assumptions around traditional management theory. Students will be asked to critique and problematise specific traditional and mainstream ideas and accounts, by employing the critical perspectives, theories and concepts from the module. The assessment aims to bring the topic, practice and experience of management alive, allowing students to reflect on and appreciate the realities of managing with appropriate analytical tools and concepts. (40%) Assessment 3: The individual reflective piece will utilise the individual learning log (assessment 1) and the groupwork report (assessment 2) to get students to reflect on their learning throughout the module. They will also have to reflect on the process of developing as a group the critical resource for managers and to draw on academic literature introduced throughout the module to further reflect on the content and criticisms that they offered as a group in Assessment 2. This will allow them to consider what their learning throughout the module means for workers/managers/management and, in turn, to use insights from the module to consider their potential future management or leadership roles and how they may manage the behaviour of people in the workplace. (50%)

DOWT5002: Human Resource Management: Managing Our Working Lives

• Terms Taught: Michaelmas
• US Credits: 5
• ECTS Credits: 10
• Pre-requisites: None

Course Description

This module invites you to explore how Human Resource Management (HRM) shapes organisational cultures, our working lives, and our ideas about what work is and what it ought to be. An important feature of HRM is that it happens to all of us, all the time, when we work.

Moreover, every manager is always a human resource manager – because all management decisions are decisions about human work: how people are meant to work, what is expected of each individual, and how work is valued and revalued permanently. Every manager must know how to recruit people, how to communicate decisions, and how to understand people and their motivations at work. Focusing on contemporary debates, you will engage with conceptual frameworks that illuminate how HRM influences employability, employee motivation, personal development, performance and perceptions of effort and effectiveness in the workplace.

You will see how HRM has developed over time and learn to interpret its evolution as a mirror of wider social, cultural, and organisational questions: how is the value of work decided for each of us? Where and when does work take place? What do notions such as commitment, creativity, or potential, mean? How do emerging digital technologies such as AI reshape management practices and experiences of work?

Educational Aims

Upon successful completion of this module students will be able to:

1. Analyse historical developments and key theoretical foundations of Human Resource Management (HRM) and interpret its evolution as a reflection of broader social, cultural and organisational changes.
2. Critically evaluate the role of HRM in shaping workplace cultures, individual and collective identities, and contemporary expectations of life at work.
3. Examine conceptual frameworks to explore how HRM practices influence employability and job market expectations, employee motivations, identities, performances, and views of personal development.
4. Critically appraise and effectively communicate how HRM decisions are made in areas such as: recruitment and selection, performance management, and human resource development.
5. Reflect on the wider implications and challenges inherent in managing people at work, understanding how HR practices are influenced by emerging digital technologies and how these technologies influence the human experiences of work.

Outline Syllabus

Human Resource Management (HRM) reflects the growing emphasis on personal identity and individual growth in contemporary cultures and societies. HRM is therefore more than just a business function because it deals with fundamental questions concerning the value and meaning of human work. This module offers a critical introduction to HRM, illustrating how it shapes strategic organisational practices whilst reflecting broader cultural trends.

First, students will explore what HRM is and how we will study it. We examine its roots and the conceptual foundations that give HRM its shape and tools. Students will understand how HRM establishes and normalises an idealised language and understanding of human potential, both inside and outside the workplace. Second, we will examine how HRM touches key aspects of our selves at work: e.g., subjectivity, performativity, self-actualisation, potentiality, and employability. This will show how HRM influences not just managerial decisions and policies, but the very way we view ourselves at work.

We will then focus on how the key concepts, discourses and contexts covered previously are enacted in practices across the HR life cycle. We will address recruitment and selection, workplace culture, performance management, and human resource development. This part of the module examines critically how the language of HRM translates into manifold practices which reflect, produce and maintain a certain conception of work, individuality and work cultures in everyday organisational life.

By the end of the module, students will have a clear understanding of how HRM influences individuals, teams and organisations, and why HRM is central to shaping our working lives.

Assessment Proportions

The assessment principle for this module is the practical application of understanding and analysis of HRM in an authentic, experiential manner. This will be a comprehensive recruitment campaign for one of three selected companies. This two-part project will include an element of collective project work to develop the campaign in detail, followed by an individual analysis, argumentation and justification of the decisions made for the final product of the project.

Students will work collaboratively (in groups of 5) to develop a detailed recruitment campaign for one of three selected companies. The campaign must be grounded in an understanding of the company’s core values and organisational culture. Students will have to produce an articulate and detailed approach to attract, motivate, and engage prospective employees by aligning the campaign materials with HR practices that reflect the company's core values. They will have the opportunity to show the ability to integrate key concepts, ideas and modes of analysis from the module. Students will then articulate their arguments and justifications for their decisions and final materials in an individual essay.

This task is an authentic assessment aligned with the core themes of the module, seeking to simulate real-world HR scenarios in which students are tasked with designing and representing graduate recruitment initiatives that reflect the company culture, and the key concepts covered in the module. This assessment requires students to connect theory, concepts, and practices, considering how HRM influences workplace identities, performance, and contemporary discourses about work and life. The presentation of the campaign will be assessed on its creativity and strategic coherence. The individual critical essay will be assessed according to the level of analysis of the work that went into producing the campaign, and according to the engagement with the subject-specific knowledge and concepts covered in the module.

Through this task, students will develop the practical skills required to interpret and apply HRM concepts to real-world challenges, demonstrating their understanding of HRM’s role in reflecting, shaping and constructing ideal forms of the individual at work.

DOWT5004: Organising in the Digital Age

• Terms Taught: Michaelmas
• US Credits: 5
• ECTS Credits: 10
• Pre-requisites: None

DOWT5006: Management in International Businesses and Organisations

• Terms Taught: Michaelmas 
• US Credits: 5
• ECTS Credits: 10
• Pre-requisites: None

Course Description

This module aims to develop students’ understanding of key challenges associated with the management of international business organisations – a core knowledge base for students on the International Management and other management programmes. From fundamental questions about the purpose and structure of international business organisations, to questions about approaches to management control and impacts on economy and society, the module aims to provide students with a critical and analytical approach to understand international organisations in a range of sectors. The module also aims to provide students with knowledge to inform decision-making about the management of international organisations and experience of making and defending decisions individually and as part of a team.

Educational Aims

Upon successful completion of this module students will be able to…

1. Apply a range of academic frameworks and theories to make and justify decisions relating to the management of international organisations.
2. Analyse the way a range of industry, political and place-specific factors affect the activities of international business organisations.
3. Evaluate the different impacts of international business organisations, including on workers and the natural environment.
4. Demonstrate an ability to construct concise and effective arguments using appropriate evidence and academic literatures.

Outline Syllabus

This module introduces key debates relating to management in international business organisations. The module begins with fundamental questions about the purpose and organisational structure of international organisations. It then proceeds to explore questions about the geographies of international organisations in terms of location choices and different approaches to managing activities spread across a range of international contexts. This includes examination of the way national and international politics and regulation affect international business organisations. The module also considers different styles of management and the implications for how international business organisations are controlled.

Across the module an important theme is the impacts on economy and society of international business organisations. This includes consideration of post-colonial perspectives on international business in terms of both theorisation and geographical inequalities.

The module adopts an approach that allows students to apply their learning to make decisions in a simulation exercise and informed by a site visit to an international business organisation based in the Lancaster area. Students will learn about the kinds of challenges the managers face when working in an international business organisation, use the knowledge gained from the module to devise responses to typical challenges and then defend those responses as part of the module assessment.

Assessment Proportions

This module is based around a learning strategy designed to allow students to, firstly, develop knowledge of key challenges faced by international business organisations and their managers, secondly learn about key academic frameworks and theories, drawn from global perspectives, that help explain the challenges and ways of responding to them, and thirdly apply understanding of the academic frameworks and theories through a site visit to an international organisation in the Lancaster area, a simulation exercise, and through the module assessment.

The module begins with a series of lectures in which the challenges and relevant academic frameworks and theories are introduced. The lectures provide the foundational knowledge that students will then apply to a site visit, simulation and in the assessment. The site visit will involve students experiencing firsthand through an on-site talk and visit the challenges and responses of an international organisation. The simulation will be delivered as part of workshop activities. Students will work in groups to setup a fictional international business organisation which they will then have to manage through a series of events/challenges, introduced in each workshop over a period of three weeks.

Assessment will be centred around the site visit and simulation. Students will submit individual portfolio entries after the site visit and each of the simulation workshops. Formative feedback will be provided on the first portfolio submissions. The portfolio submissions will not be marked separately but will be compulsory submissions that are summatively assessed as part of the module coursework.

The module assessment will be 100% coursework and will coprise of:

• 4 portfolio submissions (1 relating to the site visit, 3 relating to the simulation).
• A 2000-word analysis of two of the challenges covered in the portfolio submissions. Students will select two of the challenges covered in the 4 portfolio submissions and use knowledge gained from the module to apply relevant academic framework and theories as part of an explanation of the cause of the challenges and potential responses. Students will also explain and evaluate the decisions made by their team in response to these challenges as part of the simulation.

DOWT6001: Global Sustainable Development

• Terms Taught: Lent/Summer
• US Credits: 5
• ECTS Credits: 10
• Pre-requisites: None

Course Description

This module aims to explore and synthetically evaluate different perspectives on, and positions in, global sustainable development — what it is, how it is distributed, what it could be, and what kind of global sustainable development is realistically achievable. A key focus is examining how businesses and management engage with nature, critically assessing political, ecological, social, and economic interconnections and what that means. Students will be equipped with the ability to think critically, make connections, and present meaningful diagnoses and recommendations toward global sustainable development and sustainability

Educational Aims

Upon successful completion of this module students will be able to…

1. Critically evaluate different conceptions of, and perspectives on, global sustainable development.
2. Critically analyse the history and current forms of human interactions with the natural environment.
3. Critically apply and adapt modes of systemic thinking to ecological, social and economic sustainability issues.
4. Critically evaluate and assess the implications of management responses at global, societal, organisational and individual levels to inter-related ecological, social and economic issues.

Outline Syllabus

This module will examine the history, ideas, varieties, materialities, and critiques of how global sustainable development has been prefigured in business and management. This will occur by:

• Looking at the differing conceptions of sustainable development – political, economic, social and ecological – from the lenses of organisations and social systems.
• Examining the social and material realities of material, energy, and symbolic flows and trajectories – from extraction, production, distribution, exchange, consumption, use, disposal, to ‘waste’ (and their transformations) in the Earth System.
• Critically examining various ‘levers’ for influence and change as they have been advocated for, or applied, in relation to making organisations, systems, societies or the world more ‘sustainable’. These include prescriptions around ecological modernisation, the circular economy, new sustainable business models, Net Zero, ESG or SDG agendas, eco-socialism and degrowth.

Students will gain a critical understanding of global sustainable development, enabling them to critically question and navigate complex challenges in a socio-ecological system vulnerable to unsustainability.

Assessment Proportions

The module is designed around students applying ideas and concepts of the module to global, societal, organisational and individual experiences and issues related to global sustainable development from the perspective of business and management, and critically reviewing how these ideas and concepts make sense of these issues and experiences and whether they offer opportunities for meaningful change. This approach will be integrated across interactive lectures, guided reading and other sources, workshops exploring cases and developing and assessing change prescriptions, and student activities. The module will thus involve a combination of lectures, seminars, interactive discussions, experiential learning activities, case studies, and self- and group-directed applied research.??

The initial lectures will set the context of the course and introduce the key questions, perspectives, and dimensions of analysis. The focus will then move to exploring and critically evaluating perspectives on global sustainable development, and on modes of governance, business, and management in response to inter-related ecological, social and economic issues.

The assessment strategy for this module is focused on building up individual and group-level knowledge and expertise through formative and summative assessments.?

Formative and summative assessments are integrated throughout the module, connected to lectures and workshops:?

• The first assessment is a portfolio and reflective diary on contemporary global sustainable development issues and global, societal, organisational and individual responses to inter-related political, ecological, social and economic issues. This will involve formative feedback on the developing portfolio and diary, followed by summative feedback.
• The second assessment is a group project leading to an in-workshop presentation on a selected topic related to the module content, from the perspectives of different communities and/or countries across the planet. The presentation task is to compare, contrast and evaluate different perspectives on the organisational and systemic interactions between organisations and the political, economic, social and planetary contexts in which they operate. They will receive summative feedback on this assessed presentation.

DOWT6003: Contemporary Perspectives on Work and Human Resources

• Terms Taught: Lent/Summer
• US Credits: 5
• ECTS Credits: 10
• Pre-requisites: None

DOWT6004: Managing People Globally

• Terms Taught: Michaelmas
• US Credits: 5
• ECTS Credits: 10
• Pre-requisites: None

DOWT6005: Power, Technology and Society

• Terms Taught: Lent/Summer
• US Credits: 5
• ECTS Credits: 10
• Pre-requisites: None

Course Description

This module aims to provide a critical and advanced exploration of power, technology, and society. It moves beyond organisational analysis to interrogate how technological systems and societal power structures are fundamentally intertwined.

A further aim is to equip you with sophisticated conceptual tools from social theory, science and technology studies, and decolonial thought. We will analyse pressing issues from surveillance capitalism to technologies of liberation. Through this, the module develops your capacity for theoretical synthesis and independent argumentation, empowering you as a critical analyst capable of envisioning more just technological futures.

Educational Aims

Upon successful completion of this module students will be able to…

1. Analyse the co-constitution of technological systems and societal power structures, drawing on advanced social and political theory.
2. Critique competing theoretical approaches from management studies, social theory, and decolonial thought regarding power and technology.
3. Evaluate the relationship between digital technologies and social justice, with reference to concepts such as data colonialism and algorithmic governmentality.
4. Deconstruct the political and ideological assumptions embedded within the design and discourse of specific technological systems.
5. Synthesise diverse theoretical concepts and empirical evidence to build a sophisticated analysis of contemporary socio-technical phenomena.
6. Articulate a sophisticated critical analysis of a contemporary socio-technical issue, supported by sustained, evidence-based, and theoretically-informed reasoning.
7. Consider alternative approaches to technology grounded in principles of social justice and decolonial thought.

Outline Syllabus

This module deals with critical inquiry into the nexus of power, technology, and society. As a final-year module, it assumes foundational knowledge and immediately engages with advanced concepts to challenge students to think critically about the forces shaping our world. The learning journey is structured as a progressive intensification of critique.

We begin by assembling a sophisticated theoretical toolkit, drawing from advanced social theory, management studies, and decolonial thought. This foundation is used to interrogate concepts such as algorithmic governmentality, surveillance capitalism, and the politics of infrastructure. The module then uses this lens to unmask how historical power relations are reproduced and contested within digital architectures. We will critically analyse phenomena like data colonialism and racial capitalism to understand how technology is implicated in social and political life.

The final part of the module focuses on imagining and articulating pathways toward more just technological futures. We will explore technologies of resistance, movements for digital sovereignty, and abolitionist design principles.

This intellectual progression is designed to build the capacity for theoretical synthesis and independent argumentation, preparing students to formulate and defend their own critical positions on technology and society.

Assessment Proportions

This module’s strategy is designed to cultivate the intellectual independence and advanced critical skills expected of final-year students. Students learn to navigate complex problems and articulate nuanced, evidence-based positions, which is a critical capability for future leaders in the technology and management sectors.

The learning process follows a clear structure. Weekly research-led lectures introduce the advanced theoretical toolkit, drawing on organisation sciences, critical social theory, and decolonial thought to situate contemporary phenomena like generative AI within critical debates. These dialogue-intensive sessions prioritise diverse voices to foster an inclusive intellectual environment. The module complements this, with formative workshops acting as laboratories for argumentation. Here, students analyse cases, test emerging ideas for their research projects, and receive iterative peer and tutor feedback, allowing them to refine their own line of inquiry throughout the term.

This strategy is constructively aligned to culminate in a 100% coursework essay. This assessment method is deliberately chosen over an exam as it directly assesses the module's core learning outcomes: the ability to sustain a sophisticated theoretical synthesis, conduct independent research, and formulate a nuanced argument. The essay is not a standalone task but the final product of the scaffolded learning process.

DOWT6006: Work and Employment Relations in the Global Economy

• Terms Taught: Lent/Summer
• US Credits: 5
• ECTS Credits: 10
• Pre-requisites: None

DOWT6007: Technological Futures

• Terms Taught: Lent/Summer
• US Credits: 5
• ECTS Credits: 10
• Pre-requisites: None

Course Description

This module aims to…

• Provide students with an understanding of ways to think about the role of technology in creating futures.
• Facilitate students develop an appreciation of how digital technologies may be linked with re-producing societal and digital inequalities
• Engage students in different techniques and methods for designing, analysing, and reflecting on speculative technological futures.

Educational Aims

Upon successful completion of this module students will be able to…

1. Explore key concepts and theories concerning the role of technology in shaping futures for organisations and society.
2. Develop a critical understanding of how technology promises can mirror or contribute to the perpetuation of increasing inequalities.
3. Stimulate creative thought in the approach and methods to explore technological futures.
4. Synthesise the different elements of understanding through design, analysis, and reflection on a speculative design artefact.

Outline Syllabus

Technological Futures will provide you with an understanding of how to think about the role of technology in shaping futures for organisations and society. You will explore how different potential futures can be imagined, understood, predicted, and brought into being. You will also explore how digital technologies are implicated in re-producing societal and digital inequalities and disadvantage for some social groups.

This is a topic of great importance as emerging technologies, such as AI, robotics and biotechnology, are affecting at an unprecedented pace the way we live, work and operate – particularly in a world of environmental and political instability. The lectures and workshops are interactive, multi-modal, and practical, and they involve various exercises based on design studio principles that help you understand and employ multiple ways of thinking about technological futures and develop an understanding how social and digital inequalities are interlinked and influence individual practices.

Assessment Proportions

The teaching and assessment strategy for this module aims to equip students with integrated knowledge and learning through two connected forms of assessment.

This comprises and focuses on multidisciplinary theoretical knowledge, evidence and latest research-based insights, together with practical individual and group-based skills and development. Insights from reflective practice inspired by the academic content and experience of learning to collaborate in groups are integrated throughout the module.

The teaching and assessment approach in this module is designed to help students develop an advanced understanding of the following:

• Social scientific concepts and ideas applied to technology and future imaginaries.
• The relationship of technological futures and perpetuating/addressing social and digital inequalities.
• Reflective thinking and insights applied integrating academic concepts and practicum-inspired group work experience.

The module has two assessments:

Assessment 1: Group poster (40%) - Students working in groups to progressively develop (during workshops and independently) a design fiction poster on a technological near future.

Assessment 2: Individual reflection (60%) - Students produce an individual reflection on their groupwork poster with a focus on the relationship of technological futures and perpetuating/addressing social and digital inequalities.

DOWT6008: International Political Environment

• Terms Taught: Michaelmas
• US Credits: 5
• ECTS Credits: 10
• Pre-requisites: None