Prof Paul Willman

This course is compulsory on the Executive Global MSc in Management. This course is not available as an outside option.

This information in this course guide pertains to the 2022-2024 cohort.

A thorough grounding in the key management disciplines. Students will be provided with an overview of the development of Management disciplines and will develop an understanding of the disciplinary anchors in Sociology, Psychology and Economics. Each field will cover Origins and disciplinary boundaries, triggers for growth, core concepts and the current state of play and debate.

Scheduled over 2 modules – 10 sessions.

The course will run between the following dates:

22 August - 03 September 2022

12 - 17 December 2022

Lectures:

1. Course Introduction and the Origins of Management

2: Management and Firm

3:  The Rise and Decline of Labour

4: Taylorism, Motivation and Performance

5: The Rise of Human Resources Management

6: Making Decisions

7: Understanding Organisational Structures

8: The Origins of Modern Strategy

9. Contemporary Strategic Management: Firms as Bundles of Resources

10 Managed by Markets?

Seminar classes:

1. Managers and Managerial Work

2. The Firm and the Manager

3. Internal Labour Market and Boundaries of Firms

4. Taylorism and Toyotaism

5. UBS Case study

6. Understanding Decision Biases

7. Understanding Organisational Structures

8. The Analysis of Competitive Forces

9. The Analysis of Competences

10. Strategy and Market oversight

2,000 word essay

Paul Willman: Understanding Management: Social Science Foundations

Oxford University Press, September 2014.

Class participation (10%) and take-home assessment (60%) in the LT.
Case assignment (30%) in the MT.