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Strategic Management (BS0142)

? Credit Points : 10 ? SCQF Level : 11 ? Acronym : MSE-P-BS0142

Business Policy and Strategic Management is an integrating module; it is concerned with the totality of what a trading business or other organisation is trying to achieve. In other words it assesses a wide variety of environmental and organisational aspects which, when considered overall, help us to understand why some organisations thrive and similar organisations may struggle. These aspects will be relevant whether the organisations are trying to sell clothes world-wide or provide health care in a geographically defined community.

Entry Requirements

? Pre-requisites : PGs Only

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Business Studies, (Management School and Economics, Schedule H)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : Semester 2 (Blocks 3-4)

? Contact Teaching Time : 3 hour(s) per week for 10 weeks

All of the following classes

Type	Day	Start	End	Area
Lecture	Thursday	09:00	12:00	Central

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

By the end of the course students will have learned:

-The need for a holistic approach to the analysis of strategy.
-Analytical approaches to strategy consistent with this holistic approach to organisations.

Assessment Information

Detail of Marking for Core Components

Semester 1

Total for all Foundation Courses 100
each course, including Ethics Project, worth 10
integrative projects worth 20 in total

Semester 2a

Strategic Management 150
examination 100
course participation 10
presentation 15
written case study 25

Semester 2b

Corporate Strategy 100
Project assignment 60
Formal presentation & report=30
1 slide=10
40

Simulation and Lothians Consultancy Project 100
Motor industry simulation exercise 25
Lothians Consultancy Project 75

Total 450