MAN-10030 - Module Specification
Keele Business School
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Programme/Approved Electives for 2024/25

Available as a Free Standing Elective

Co-requisites

None

Prerequisites

None

Barred Combinations

None

Description for 2024/25

This module approaches organisations and organisational structures from a socioeconomic perspective. As a subject, sociology is concerned primarily with the conduct of society, the way socioeconomic relations are formed and developed both at the institutional level and at the level of everyday interaction. Sociologists and Economists often question how society and the economy is organised and structured through its institutions. This area of social science asks how we, as organisational participants as well as employees at work, are organised by and disciplined through everyday practices and institutions.
In seeking to understand how institutions work, this module addresses key issues relating to developments in the labour market and the dynamics of socioeconomic relations. The module evaluates dominant socioeconomic changes on a grand scale. This includes institutions formed by partnerships, cohorts, professions, business associations and other forms of strategic alliance.
The module focuses on the way institutions assist in creating, reproducing and regulating specific socioeconomic orders and the manner in which power manifests itself, is exercised, and is distributed and resisted. The module assesses these issues through engagement with socioeconomic debates concerning contemporary work issues and by closely examining detailed empirical cases.

The aim of this module is to provide the foundations for students' appreciation and awareness of the challenges encountered in managing organisations in the context of social change.

Intended Learning Outcomes

Identify, describe and evaluate the features of socioeconomic theories associated with understanding the development of contemporary working practices: 1
Address the conceptual, theoretical and practical links between work, labour force and wider socio-economic theories on topics such as inequality, power and social change, gender, health, sustainability and well-being.: 1
Apply socioeconomic theories to the study of a specific example or case study: 1
Appreciate the key emerging challenges facing modern businesses and institutions in a management context and policies designed to mitigate these.: 1

Study hours

12 hours lectures
12 hours tutorials
82 hours private study which includes additional reading, thinking time, discussing ideas with other students, etc.
44 hours assignment preparation

School Rules

None

Description of Module Assessment