Dr Rebecca Campbell

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 2023-2025 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 economics, sociology, psychology and business history. Within each field, we will cover origins, disciplinary boundaries, core concepts and current debates.

Scheduled over 2 modules – 10 sessions.

The course will run between the following dates:

22 August - 02 September 2023

11 - 16 December 2023

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 scientific management

5. Google’s project Oxygen 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 WT.
Case assignment (30%) in the AT.