MQ3PGC: Personal Effectiveness : Personal Growth and Change

Module code: MQ3PGC

Module provider: Leadership, Organisations and Behaviour; Henley Business School

Credits: 20

Level: 6

When you'll be taught: Full year

Module convenor: Dr Dorota Bourne, email: dorota.bourne@henley.ac.uk

Pre-requisite module(s):

Co-requisite module(s):

Pre-requisite or Co-requisite module(s):

Module(s) excluded:

Placement information: No placement specified

Academic year: 2024/5

Available to visiting students:

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Last updated: 19 November 2024

Overview

Module aims and purpose

This module explores achieving personal and professional growth in a complex, ambiguous and uncertain work context through an evaluation of self in relation to stakeholder, customer and supplier management. By developing an understanding of approaches to engagement, facilitating cross functional working and negotiation, students will explore how they themselves can change as they seek to deliver organisational growth. The module also considers the particular issues associated with the leadership of change. This module considers personal wellbeing and resilience, as well as the capacity for sustained personal development.

Aims:

In this module a systematic knowledge of management will be deployed to allow students to consider on how their personal growth and development. Throughout, they will be exposed to the complexity, ambiguity and uncertainty that underpin many management situations.

The module aims to prepare students to:

1. Recognise and evaluate their organization as an inter-related system.

2. Drive and manage cross functional change in their organization.

3. Manage key stakeholders during change.

4. Effectively influence and negotiate with all parties involved in change.

5. Develop their skills to manage change both personally and as a leader.

Module learning outcomes

By the end of the module the student will be able to:

1. Identify strategies for organizational improvement and the management of stakeholders. 

2. Shape common purpose and engage stakeholders in improvement initiatives.

3. Evaluate models of conflict management and resolution and successfully apply these.

4. Evaluate negotiation strategies and practise these.

5. Apply change management models to enable continued organizational improvements.

Module content

Students will work in the context of change and growth, analysing and planning for their own needs as change agents as well as the needs and agenda of stakeholders: from customer to employee. In doing so students will apply learnings from the previous two years to increase their self-awareness, leadership and change management skills. The context of learning will be at organizational level, viewing the organization as an evolving, growing system. 

To meet the apprenticeship standards, the following additional learning outcomes will be covered during the teaching of the module:

1. Taken responsibility for each step of the personal development process and lifelong learning. 

2. Analysed their interpersonal skills and taken responsibility to further development of these through engagement with all relevant stakeholders in a professional and inclusive manner.

3. Applied their thinking with adaptability and agility to changing organisational needs.

4. Developed the ability to ameliorate barriers to well-being. 

5. Set an example, act in ethical, fair, consistent and impartial manner.

6. Respond well to feedback and need for change.

7. Are open to new ways of working and new management theories. 

Structure

Teaching and learning methods

Students will be guided, but not directed in their investigations. A formal learning pathway is provided consisting of both self-directed learning, online sessions and live face to face workshops. Students will be guided by the course facilitators as well as the apprenticeship tutor who will support them in the application of new knowledge into the workplace. The students will also be required to demonstrate learning to peers through presentations and group discussions.

Study hours

At least 14 hours of scheduled teaching and learning activities will be delivered in person, with the remaining hours for scheduled and self-scheduled teaching and learning activities delivered either in person or online. You will receive further details about how these hours will be delivered before the start of the module.

Please note the independent study hours above are notional numbers of hours; each student will approach studying in different ways. We would advise you to reflect on your learning and the number of hours you are allocating to these tasks.

Semester 1 The hours in this column may include hours during the Christmas holiday period.

Semester 2 The hours in this column may include hours during the Easter holiday period.

Summer The hours in this column will take place during the summer holidays and may be at the start and/or end of the module.

Assessment

Requirements for a pass

Students need to achieve an overall module mark of 40% to pass this module.

Summative assessment

Penalties for late submission of summative assessment

This module is subject to the Penalties for late submission for Postgraduate Flexible programmes policy, which can be found at:

https://www.reading.ac.uk/cqsd/-/media/project/functions/cqsd/documents/qap/penaltiesforlatesubmissionpgflexible.pdf

The Module Convenor will apply the following penalties to work submitted late:

• where the piece of work is submitted up to one calendar month after the original deadline (or any formally agreed extension to the deadline): 10% of the total marks available for that piece of work will be deducted from the mark; 
• where the piece of work is submitted more than one calendar month after the original deadline (or any formally agreed extension to the deadline): a mark of zero will be recorded.

You are strongly advised to ensure that coursework is submitted by the relevant deadline. You should note that it is advisable to submit work in an unfinished state rather than to fail to submit any work.

Formative assessment

Formative assessment is any task or activity which creates feedback (or feedforward) for you about your learning, but which does not contribute towards your overall module mark.

Reassessment

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