Strategy in Practice - MAN00119M

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  • Department: The York Management School
  • Credit value: 15 credits
  • Credit level: M
  • Academic year of delivery: 2022-23

Module summary

This module explores management strategy and focuses on being a leader for the future.

Module will run

Occurrence Teaching period
A Online Teaching Period 6 2022-23

Module aims

This module provides an overview of strategic management theories and pays particular attention to ethical leadership and global citizenship and their impact on organisations.

Module learning outcomes

By the end of this module, students should be able to:

  • Identify rigorous solutions to contemporary strategic management issues by critically applying pertinent theoretical approaches;

  • Critically assess previous strategic decisions based on their theoretical underpinnings, evidence and interpretations of their limitations;

  • Generate transformative, diverse-aware and ethically sustainable solutions to existing problems in a variety of contexts based on knowledge of ethical and sustainable decision-making

Indicative assessment

Task % of module mark
Essay/coursework 100

Special assessment rules

None

Indicative reassessment

Task % of module mark
Essay/coursework 100

Module feedback

In accordance with UYMS policy.

Indicative reading

Flynn, P.M., Haynes, K. and Kilgour, M.A. (2015). Integrating gender equality into business and management education : lessons learned and challenges remaining. Sheffield, Uk: Greenleaf Publishing Limited.

Whittington, R., Angwin, D., Regne´rP., Johnson, G. and Kevan Scholes (2021). Fundamentals of strategy. Hoboken: Pearson.

Lynch, R. (2021). Strategic Management. S.L.: Sage Publications