MN5517 Managing and Organising for Grand Challenges

Academic year

2025 to 2026 Semester 2

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Key module information

SCOTCAT credits

15

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SCQF level

SCQF level 11

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Planned timetable

To be confirmed

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Module Staff

TBC

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Module description

This module invites students to develop a deep appreciation of grand challenges facing economies and societies, and the ways in which managing and organising are implicated in the challenges and potential responses. While such issues may initially seem to be external and peripheral to organisations, students will be supported to explore and demonstrate how such challenges are central to the contemporary organisational environments and concerns of management professionals. Such challenges call into question ways of conceptualising and enacting responsibility and accountability. Accordingly, students will be encouraged to critically reflect on key debates and developments in the role and responsibilities of organisations and management in society when working collectively to address grand challenges.

Assessment pattern

100% Coursework

Re-assessment

100% Coursework

Learning and teaching methods and delivery

Weekly contact

3 hour weekly seminars including lecture and tutorial content (11 weeks)

Scheduled learning hours

27

The number of compulsory student:staff contact hours over the period of the module.

Guided independent study hours

112

The number of hours that students are expected to invest in independent study over the period of the module.

Intended learning outcomes

  • Explain the relevance of grand challenges to management and organisations now and in the future
  • Evaluate the use of various management and organising practices that are designed to address grand challenges
  • Understand the sources of responsibility and what kinds of accountability demands these grand challenges require
  • Critically reflect on the extent to which organisations are responsible and accountable for grand challenges using relevant conceptual frameworks and theories
  • Critically review a variety of academic and professional information sources
  • Communicate in written and verbal forms to academic and professional audiences