Aims:

To develop a learning portfolio as the basis for both enterprise and project management. Both critical (e.g. use of theory) and reflective thinking (e.g. making explicit personal values) will be used to challenge existing assumptions in planning, leading, organising, controlling and improving.

Objectives: 

To introduce students to the key concepts in the theory and practice of management. Students will develop the ability to:

Decipher the various management environments and understand the interplay between permanent and temporary organisations.
 Establish guidelines for integrating project teams around a common purpose and motivating positive individual behaviour.
 Design effective and efficient organisations to plan, lead, manage, control and improve processes and supply chains.
 Lead the development of an adaptive learning portfolio that will set the stage for future independent learning and build the foundations for the management modules in the second and third years of the programme.
Learning Outcomes: 

On completion students will be able to:

Explain the development of management thinking and its main models, concepts and theories
 Compare models, concepts and theories related to planning, organising, leading, controlling and improving and critically evaluate their strengths and weakness
 Critically evaluate and apply this body of knowledge to the management of project and project-based firms in general and to the built environment
Syllabus:

Introduction to management and organisations
 Development of management thought and the different ways of understanding and conceptualising management, organisations and their contexts
 Planning
 Types of goals and plans
  Strategy – as a concept, its development, and implementation
 
 Organising
 Structures (basic elements of organisational design, balancing integration and specialisation, innovative organisational forms, factors shaping organisational structures)
  Teams (types of teams, characteristics, development phases, managing dysfunctional teams)
  Organisational culture
 
 Leading
 Basics of behaviours in organisations and the implications for management
  Motivation
  Leadership (discerning leaders and managers, identifying different leadership approaches, followership)
 
 Controlling
 Approaches to controlling and monitoring organisations, resources and their activities
 
 Improving
 Managing knowledge and learning
 
Reading List

Core Text: 

Boddy, D. (2014) Management: An Introduction, 6th Edition. Edinburg: Pearson Education.

The library holds several copies, but you are strongly encouraged to purchase your own copy for reference as the book will also come in useful for the 2nd and 3rd years of the BSc programme.

In addition to the textbook, each lecture has also supplementary readings that will offer more in-depth ideas and alternative and complementary perspectives on the topics.