Managing Organisations and People, Certificate

This module is drawn from our suite of Construction Management masters programmes. The aim of this module is to introduce you to the organisational and management environments in which the construction industry operates and the people within it.

This course will explore the historical bases from which management theory has developed and show how historical perspective has influenced contemporary thought. It will also:

• explain how management theory and practice has been influenced by individual national cultures
• explore contemporary and emergent management theory and practice and its contribution in a national and international setting
• explore current and evolving human resource management philosophy within an international context
• investigate human resource issues at management and operative levels within corporate and project arenas
• acquire human resource skills within multi-discipline intra-group and inter-group working across a range of cultures
• enhance your personal profile in interpersonal, informational and decision-making skills, and in the use of personal time, and to develop for the longer term a systematic personal development programme (PDP).

When you have completed the module you should be able to:

• explore historical bases from which management theory has developed and show how historical perspective has influenced contemporary thought
• discuss how management theory and practice has been influenced by individual national cultures
• identify the contribution which national and/or international management thought can make to the development of individual management performance
• explore the social, cultural and political differences between people in order to improve understanding and reduce cultural barriers
• describe current and evolving human resource management philosophy within an international context
• critically evaluate human resource issues at management and operative levels within corporate and project arenas.

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Course content:

• management processes and business functions in Western organisational theory and practice and the design and work of organisations, organisational systems, operations research and national and international construction
• corporate management, leadership, groups, structures, conflict and organisational change (the nature of managerial work)
• interpersonal, informational and decision-making skills, sensitivity, ethos and mores, ethics and professionalism, expatriatism and multicultural experience (European and International business cultures)
• effective human resource management
• relationship with corporate mission, objectives and strategies
• classification, quantification, sourcing and timing of human assets
• international human resource planning
• recruitment and selection of employees
• compensation, training and development
• performance appraisal and labour relations
• effectively utilising human resources
• management and operative skills
• productive working environments
• strengthening employee-management relations
• team working in international settings
• the role of effective managers
• personal effectiveness and efficiency
• presentation of self
• interpersonal, informational and decision-making skills.