BZR641 Managing
Duration of learning – 3 months
Credit – 15 points
General information
This is the first Module of the Manager Professional Programme which is designed to update skills and knowledge and offered by the British Open University Business School (OU Business School), the Europe largest business school.
Module Managing is a self-contained three-month study course which examines managerial problems essential for modern managers. This course will help you to increase your knowledge in this fundamental area of management and introduce you to new management techniques that will improve your confidence as a manager.
If you fulfill all academic requirements, the Module will be counted as a quarter of full credit towards the OU Business School Professional Certificate in Management.
Managing is a part of the Manager –Professional Programme and provides the base for entering the Corporate Manager and the OU Business School MBA programmes.
Description
Managing is designed as the first course in management and intends to improve your confidence as a manager.
Introducing you to fundamental managerial processes and techniques the course will show how you can continually develop your managerial competence.
It also helps you to understand and respond to the environment in which you work, dealing with models of organisational culture and structure, organisation’s relationship with its customers, suppliers and other stakeholders.
Managing involves four course books. Among main topics are:
Book 1. The Manager: manager’s job, role and competence; manager’s development; time self-management; avoiding stress; delegating; saucers of problems and uncertainty in real management; manager’s career and training.
Book 2. Management Control: control loop; rational approach to planning and control; SMART-objectives; approaches to managerial decision-making; monitoring and providing for effective resource using; assessment problems.
Book 3. Managing in an Organisation: role and features of an organisation; how structure affect work arrangements and coordination; mission and values; individual and group ethics; managing differences; models of organisational culture; formal and informal organisational structures.
Book 4. Managing Stakeholder Interests: stakeholders’ needs; marketing and customer relations; stakeholders and financial information; identifying conflict of interests; setting priorities; balanced evaluation of organisation’s activity.
As a whole Managing will help you develop your understanding of what organisation’s aspects are object of management and what is manager’s role and place in this process.
Computing
You will have access to web-site where you find further materials on the Manager-Professional Programme; also you will have access to Managing special site for students.
This Module has specially developed CD-ROM that you can use to check your understanding of key concepts through tests based on study case analysis and to aid your revision.
When you register you will receive Manager’s Help File which describes key concepts and team-working techniques.
What is included in Module
This Module has its own Study Guide, four course books, interactive CD-ROM, audio cassette/CD and web-pages.
You will need
CD player and computer with Internet access.
Support from your tutor
You will have a tutor with whom you can communicate by e-mail, telephone and who will help you with your study, mark and comment your written assignments, conduct Internet conferences on course topics, offer advice and guidance in your learning.
Tutor will also run face-to-face tutorials which will provide you with useful experience in applying course concepts to case study analysis and in team- working.
Your Regional Centre will be able to tell you where the tutorials are to be held if you need this information before you register. Each Module involves about six hours of such tuition which normally comprise two three-hour tutorials.
Residential Schools
Sessions at Residential School (two and a half days) involve interactive work based on course materials and aimed to provide more profound perception. You will participate in intensive discussions of a wide rang of working contexts and acquire team-working skills.
Assessment
Module has two written assignments and a one-hour examination.
Qualification
Module is counted towards Professional Certificate in Management of the British Open University, however if your aim is to be awarded this qualification, you should complete each of four Programme modules.
Entry
There are no entry requirements, however you are expected to bring some personal managerial experience but you need not to be currently employed as a manager during your study.
Module BZR641 Managing is one of four three-month Modules comprising the Manager-Professional Programme. You may register for any of the Modules on its own and study them one by one; but if you want to be awarded the Professional Certificate, you will benefit greatly by registration for the full Programme.
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