Though the primary task of this module is to help you learn more about the impacts of various approaches to work and management on people by reading and talking about it and debating it. Hopefully this active (rather than passive) process will duly impact on and shape what and how you choose to see, talk, write and do it in your future careers, benefiting you far beyond graduation.
When we talk about ‘studying’ in this context we are thinking of all five of the following activities: doing, seeing, talking, reading, and writing. As future managers you not only need to learn to become better at doing all five of these activities but, most significantly, it is critical for you to learn how to better link and integrate these activities into a cohesive philosophical whole. So that what you read influences what you see about management, what we talk about helps us to write about it which, in turn, helps us to do better management. This is by no means a linear process. In fact, you could easily reverse the sequence described above or use various combinations and the process would be equally valid.
WHY A MODULE about
PEOPLE, WORK AND SOCIETY?