Programme Specification - MSc Organisational Behaviour
1. Awarding Body
2. Details of accreditation by a
professional/statutory body, e.g. ESRC;
BPS etc
3. Name of final award
4. Programme Title
5. Duration of the course
6. Based in the Department/Institute:
7. Relevant QAA subject benchmark
statements
8. UCAS Code
9. First written/last amended
LSE
N/A
MSc
Organisational Behaviour
12 months
Employment Relations and Organisational
Behaviour Group (within the Department of
Management)
N/A
N6U6
April 2010 / November 2012
10. The programme aims to:
To provide students with the requisite knowledge about behaviour in organisations to facilitate
a career in management and consultancy or the foundational knowledge in the discipline to
pursue a PhD in Organisational Behaviour.
11. Programme outcomes: knowledge and understanding; skills and other attributes
The knowledge, understanding and skills outcomes are as follows:
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To provide students with a depth and breadth of knowledge within Macro and Micro OB
and the relevance to management and managing within organisations;
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To facilitate students’ analytical and critical skills in the evaluation of theories, empirical
research, organisational practices and their implications for behaviour, attitudes and
performance;
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To facilitate an understanding of the research process and its implications for research
findings;
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To facilitate student understanding of organisational phenomena through an
understanding of psychological and sociological theories as they relate to understanding
individual, group and organisational behaviour
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To bridge the research-practice divide by understanding engaged scholarship.
12. Teaching, learning and assessment strategies to enable outcomes to be achieved
and demonstrated
Teaching and learning strategies:
The teaching and learning strategies vary across the courses and are designed to facilitate
different learning styles from group exercises, case studies, outside speakers, self development
exercises.
Assessment strategies: The assessment across the core courses is diverse and the new
courses proposed offer a mixed assessment (i.e. Organisational Theory has 10% class
participation, 30% group project and 60% individual essay and the dissertation has two
components: the dissertation (90%) and the dissertation proposal (10%); Advanced and
Emerging Topics in OB has 50% essay and 50% exam for its assessment).
13. Programme structures and requirements, levels, modules and awards
See the MSc Organisational Behaviour programme regulations.
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Additional information
14. Criteria for admission to the programme
Students should have a first or a good upper second to be admitted into the programme.
English language requirement higher (i.e. IELTS level 7). GRE/ GMAT is required for non UK
students.
15. Indicators of quality
There is high demand for programmes in the Department. For example, 5.62 in IER/HRM,
12.04 in HRM, 6.12 in MiM, and 9.35 in MOG.
16. Methods for evaluating and improving the quality and standard of teaching and
learning
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Regular (once a term) staff-student meeting and MSc feedback meetings (twice
yearly)
TQARO student surveys
Annual review of academic staff
Regular staff meetings where issues of redesign of programmes and courses are
discussed
The Teaching and Learning Centre is available to monitor and observe teaching and
offers constructive advice on how to improve the standard of teaching and quality.
The Teaching Learning and Assessment Committee which regulates all aspects of
teaching quality;
Departmental TLAC review once every five years.
The Graduate Studies Sub-Committee which oversees all graduate programmes and
ensures that significant changes to programmes and courses pass through a
sequence of formal stages, so that curricular changes are appropriate and compatible
with other developments.
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