BMAN10780:
Business and Management Skills
Ilias Petrounias
Ilias.petrounias@mbs.ac.uk
Anna Goatman
anna.goatman@mbs.ac.uk
The Team
Ilias Petrounias
Anna Goatman
Linda Whittle
Plus your Academic Advisor
(approximately 36 academic advisors)
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What is Business and Management
Skills?
Academic and
study skills
Introduction to
employability
Managerial and
professional
skills
A foundation for studying Management at
university
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Course Structure
10-credit 2-semester course
Compulsory for around 550 first year students
A structured means of Academic Advisors and
students getting to know each other
A channel for feedback in both directions
Full
course
lectures
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Seminars with
Academic
Advisor
Hands-on and
online library
training
Input from
the Careers
Service
What the course is about
• Providing you with the knowledge and skills to monitor,
review, plan and take responsibility for your own learning
and professional development.
• Giving you a broad overview of business, management
and professionalism, which pulls together all your studies
into a broader perspective
• Keeping you abreast of current developments of business
and management, particularly those arising in the news.
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Reading
General texts
• Management or Study Skills?
Background and Current Issues
• Business Radio and TV programmes
– Including Dragon’s Den and the Apprentice
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What is an Academic Advisor?
• A member of academic staff
– A point of contact regarding academic issues
– Somebody you will see every fortnight
– Somebody to support you in developing a personal development
plan (PDP and CV)
– Somebody to give you feedback
– Somebody who will remain with you for the duration of your
degree
– Somebody who you could ask to write a reference
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Assessment and Feedback
Semester 1
1000-word formative essay
Written individual feedback from Academic Advisor via Blackboard
Group presentation on a
current business issue (45%)
Written feedback for each group from Academic Advisor (issued
electronically by Linda Whittle)
Semester 2
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Group presentation: critique
of current management paper
(45%)
Written feedback for each group from Academic Advisor (issued
electronically by Linda Whittle)
Personal Development Plan
(PDP) and CV (10%)
Written individual feedback for from Academic Advisor (issued
electronically via Blackboard)
The Formative Essay
Do men make better managers than
women?
Academic writing
Accessing library resources
Building an argument
Referencing
Finding Resources for your Assignments
Lecture and Practical Session
•
Your ‘Finding Resources for your Assignments’ lecture will be on Tuesday
24 September in Room G6 in MBS West (building 29 on the campus map)
•
Your one hour practical skills session has been scheduled in either
- Week 2 (week commencing 30 September) or
- Week 3 (week commencing 7 October)
•
Your timetabled ‘Finding Resources for your Assignments’ lecture and
practical skills session can be found on the Academic Advisor seminar
information sheet given to you in your arrival pack which you collected on
Monday 16 September an example is provided below and on your weekly
timetable available from the student system.
•
The practical skills sessions will be in the postgraduate computer cluster
Room 1.12 in Crawford House (building 31 on the campus map)
Work on your essay starts next week
45% of the assessment
The First Presentation
Group presentation on a current
business issue
Group
work
Engaging with current
business issues
Verbal presentation
skills
Visual presentation
skills
45% of the assessment
The Second Presentation
Group presentation: Critiquing an
academic paper
Group
management
Critical
thinking
Evaluating academic
research
Improving presentation
skills
10% of the assessment
The PDP and CV
Personal Development Plan
ongoing throughout the year
CV produced in semester 2
Supported by lecture and online
resources from the Careers Service
Reflecting on
experiences
Understanding
employability
Recognising strengths
and weaknesses
Planning for the future
Course Timetable – Semester 1
Week
Lecture
Seminar
Welcome
Week
Introduction to Course
1 (27/09/13)
Writing Skills, Referencing and Plagiarism 1
2 (04/10/13)
Writing Skills, Referencing and Plagiarism 2
3 (11/10/13)
Group Dynamics and Management
4 (18/10/13)
Presenting with Confidence
5 (25/10/13)
Careers Service Lecture
Seminar 1
Introductions
PDP
Formative Essay
Seminar 2
Plagiarism cases - class discussion
Essay skills Q&A
Introduction of small group projects
Seminar 3 (for groups that started in week 1)
Presentation skills & PowerPoint Karaoke
Formative essays to be submitted by the end of week 5 (25/10/13)
Reading week – No timetabled activity
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7 (08/11/13)
Employability: Guest speaker from industry
8
No Lecture
9
No Lecture
10
No Lecture
11
No Lecture
12
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Seminar 3 (for groups that started in week 2)
Presentation skills
Seminar 4
Students presentations (assessed)
Seminar 5
Exam/ Revision Skills
No timetabled activity
Other
activities
Library lecture
Practical
library sessions
Online
plagiarism quiz
Course Timetable – Semester 2
Week
Lecture
Seminar
Seminar 6
Reflections on Semester 1
PDPs
1
Developing a CV
2
Possible lecture
3
No Lecture
4
No Lecture
5
No Lecture
6
No Lecture
7
No Lecture
8
No Lecture
9
No Lecture
10
No Lecture
Seminar 10
Preparation for year 2
2nd year options
11
No Lecture
No seminar
Seminar 7
Discussion of how to critique academic papers.
Seminar 8
No seminar – One-to-one individual meetings
Seminar 9
Student Presentations (assessed)
07/05/13 Options talks
PDPs and CVs to be submitted by Friday 2nd May 2014
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Other activities
No timetabled activity
Blackboard
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Please note…
• You must pass Business and Management Skills to
complete your first year.
• If you don’t take part in the group projects you can’t
pass the course.
• A presentation is like an exam, if you fail to attend a
presentation you will get a mark of zero.
– If you miss a presentation due to illness or serious personal
circumstances you must complete a mitigating circumstances form
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Expectations of University
• Teaching styles vary
– There is no ‘one size fits all’ approach
• Some classes are very large
• The emphasis is on you to take responsibility
for your own learning
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Expectations of assessment
• Your work will be marked by experts.
• Marking follows a rigorous process overseen by an internal
moderator an external examiner.
• You can ask for somebody to check that the marks have been
added up correctly on your paper.
• You cannot question academic judgment or ask for a re-mark.
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Good feedback is
not (necessarily)
feedback that tells you
that you’re good
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Feedback can come from…
• Your Academic Advisor
• Your lecturer(s)
• Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs)
• Each other
• Online tests and assessments
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Expectations
• We promise to provide you with:
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Expert teaching
An Academic Advisor
A broad foundation to studying management
The best administrative support we can
• You are expected to:
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Attend lectures and seminars
Be punctual
Be quiet in lectures unless you are asked a question
Participate in the seminars and coursework
Read emails and Blackboard
Next Week
Tuesday 24th September: Check your timetable for your ‘Finding
resources for essay’ lecture in MBS West G6
Check your timetable to see where and when you meet your
academic advisor (week 1 or week 2)
Friday 27th September – Writing skills, referencing and Plagiarism
1 (University Place Theatre B)
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Directions to the postgraduate computer cluster for the ‘Finding resources
for your assignment’ practical session in week 2 or 3 (check your
timetable):
- Go up the steps outside the Chaplaincy (building 32) and bear left
- You will see the Precinct Library entrance at the top of the steps
- Go to the right of the library entrance and you will see two sets of
sliding glass
doors (the first set of doors leads over the bridge to the MBS East
building)
- Go through the second set of sliding doors and turn immediately right
into the computer cluster
- There will be signs on the sliding doors and on the door of the
computer cluster