Business Management

Challenges in Management and Contemporary Issues

Critically analyse the role of the manager as professional with particular reference to managerial activities and the place of management theory in desirable management practice.

Considering theoretical perspectives on change and the manager as professional, critically analyse a particular problem or issue from an organisational and managerial context.

1 what are the range of the accepted practices of

management and their underpinning rationales?

2 Critically review some of the more established theories and

debates within management literature.

3 Identify and review some of the complex and uncertain contexts

within which senior managers operate;

4 Evaluate change agents and their appropriateness for various

present and future business and management challenges;

5 Explore and assess various scenarios for developing future

business relationships;

6 Critically consider the concepts of organisational change and

change agency.