This module is not currently running in 2021 to 2022.
This module aims to provide students with a range of generic skills to i) benefit fully from the Master's programme in business and management, and ii) identify needed personal development after completion of the programme in light of career objectives. Specifically, on the module you will learn a series of generic skills of relevance to your Master's programme, and of relevance to furture employment. The module will lead to the submission of a Management Skills report which will support your personal development and future career through critical self reflection of key skills.
Lectures and Seminars: 12
Tutorials: 12
Total: 24 hours
100% project of 5000-7000 words
S. Cameron (2008) The MBA Handbook: Study Skills for Postgraduate Management Study, 6th Ed, Pearson Education, Harlow
J A Sharp, J Peters and K. Howard (2002), The Management of a Student Research Project, 3rd Ed. Gower.
See the library reading list for this module (Canterbury)
By the end of the module students will have acquired skills that enable them to: develop students’ research and generic study skills to enable them better to benefit from a Master’s programme in business and management; develop students’ personal and management skills to enable them better to benefit from a Master’s programme in business and management; identify required personal development after completion of the programme in the light of their career objectives; enable students to construct a personal development plan linked to their career ambitions
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