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Module Handbook

1 Module Information

1.1 Module Title

People in Project Management

1.2 Module Code Number

KB7036/AT7026

1.3 Module Level and Points

Level 7 and 20 points

1.4 Module Leader

Dr Allan Osborne

1.5 Academic Year

Semester 2 2020-21

2 Module Overview

2.1 Module Abstract

Of all the variables that contribute to the success or failure of projects, the most neglected one, and therefore in need of the most attention, is the project team itself. The module aims to provide a clear and concise overview of the key concepts and theories of project, social and organisation psychology about effective project team dynamics. Of equal importance, the module will also explore the key concepts and theories associated with management and organisational behaviour which influence people and project- orientated team working. Grounded in the social, management and organisation sciences, but with an underlying practice-based focus on effective teamwork, the module will enable you to understand and participate in and effectively lead real and virtual project-orientated teams.

2.2 What Will I Learn on this Module?

Group dynamics are the meaningful actions, processes and changes that occur within and between groups of people. Groups come in all shapes and sizes, and their functions are many and varied. To understand groups and their dynamics, you must understand how people interact and function while working together in formalised organisational contexts. The module aims to unite and contextualise selected key theories associated with team dynamics from psychology and the social sciences with selected key theories related to groups, teams and management processes from management and organisation sciences. The overarching aim is to equip and empower you with the knowledge, skills and abilities to create, participate in and lead real and virtual project-orientated teams.

2.3 How Will I Learn on this Module?

The module will adopt an integrated approach to learning and teaching. This approach will include a formal scheduled teaching programme and a constructively aligned programme of academic staff-guided independent learning. You will examine selected concepts and theories related to how groups operate in organisations during formally scheduled instruction. You will also study specific chapters of the essential reading textbooks, complete applied tasks, critique case studies and watch online video presentations.

2.4 How Will I Be Supported Academically on this Module?

Academic staff will provide guidance, 1:1 support (where possible), or use an interactive asynchronous online peer support forum on the University’s virtual learning environment (VLE) to support you in your studies. Academic staff will use guided independent learning activities, e.g., directed reading. You will supplement this structured support with independent learning activities.

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2.5 What Will I Be Expected to Read on this Module

You can find the reading list for this module at http://readinglists.northumbria.ac.uk and from the Reading List link on the Blackboard (Bb) site. The module leader recommends you buy a copy of the current edition of the essential reading textbook by Daniel Levi and David A. Askay called Group Dynamics for Teams. You can read the publisher’s blurb about Levi and Asky’s textbook at https://uk.sagepub.com/en- gb/eur/group-dynamics-for-teams/book259292 The Module Weekly Learning Schedule will direct you to read selected chapters of Levi and Askay’s textbook each week.

2.6 What Will I Be Expected to Do on this Module

The module leader expects you to:

• Attend the fortnightly 2-hour digital seminar that is facilitated by an academic staff member. The session may require you to work with some of your peers to complete structured tasks assigned by the module leader. These tasks are focused and designed to help you demonstrate your achievement of the module learning outcomes when you submit your coursework. The digital seminars are primarily intended for on-campus students, but remote learning students are more than welcome to attend.

• Watch the Panopto lecture and YouTube video presentations assigned by the module leader. It would be best if you took notes while doing so to help you prepare to write your coursework.

• Complete the tutor-directed learning and formative assessment tasks assigned by the module leader. You will be required to read the specified chapter(s) of the essential reading textbook by Levi and Askay and complete questions at the end of each chapter of the essential reading textbook. These structured tasks will help you prepare to write your coursework.

• Attend the weekly 1-hour digital lectorial that is facilitated by an academic staff member. The tutors will use Bb Collaborate to host the session. These sessions will help to reinforce your tutor- and self- directed learning to help you prepare to write your coursework.

• During live digital lectorials and seminars, please observe netiquette: the rules for acceptable online behaviour. Be respectful, polite, and professional. Join Bb Collaborate sessions with the Share Video and Share Audio options disabled. The faculty member leading the Bb Collaborate session will invite you to turn these on as appropriate. Use the Raise Hand function if you have a question or want to comment. Open the Collaborate Panel and use the Chat function to type a question or contribute to a chat.

• Conduct yourself professionally with respect for all students and academic staff members in all sessions; this includes any threads you place on the Bb discussion board. You must adhere to the University’s Handbook of Student Regulations when interacting with others. If you do not, your misconduct will be discussed with you and possibly referred to the University’s Student Excellence Team for independent review.

2.7 When Will I Be Expected to Attend a Formally-Scheduled Teaching Session?

2.7.1 Newcastle Campus Students

You will have two categories of formally-scheduled teaching that will take place either weekly or fortnightly. These are:

• Lectorials are, as the name suggests, a combination of lecture and tutorial teaching modes designed to improve opportunities for you to engage with your peers in a large cohort. If you are a full-time on-campus student, you will see on your timetable that you must attend a weekly lectorial. If, however, you are a part-time off-campus student, the University will not have published a timetable for you. Nevertheless, if you would like to attend lectorials, you are more than welcome to do so. Should you not attend, the lectorials will be video recorded to watch later.

• All Groups Lectorial: Thursdays at 13:00 to 14:00 via Bb Collaborate on Timetable Weeks 27 to 35 and 39 to 41.

• Workshops are a group of students engaged in a focused area of study to exchange information, complete activities, and hold discussions.

If you are a full-time on-campus student, you will see on your timetable that you must attend a fortnightly workshop. If, however, you are a part-time off-campus student, the University will not have published a timetable for you. Nevertheless, if you would like to attend a fortnightly workshop, you are more than welcome to do so. As the workshops are only accessible to timetabled groups, if you are a

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part-time off-campus student and want to join a workshop, you should place a thread to the module leader on the Module Discussion Board. You should note that workshops will not be video recorded.

• Group 1 Workshop: Wednesdays at 13:00 to 15:00 via Bb Collaborate on Timetable Weeks 27, 29, 31, 33, 35, and 40.

• Group 2 Workshop: Thursdays at 16:00 to 18:00 via Bb Collaborate on Timetable Weeks 27, 29, 31, 33, 35, and 40.

• Group 3 Workshop: Wednesdays at 13:00 to 15:00 via Bb Collaborate on Timetable Weeks 28, 30, 32, 34, 39, and 41.

• Group 4 Workshop: Thursdays at 13:00 to 15:00 via Bb Collaborate on Timetable Weeks 28, 30, 32, 34, 39, and 41.

2.7.2 Amsterdam Campus Students

You will have two categories of formally-scheduled teaching that will take place either weekly or every three weeks.

• Lectorials are, as the name suggests, a combination of lecture and tutorial teaching modes designed to improve opportunities for you to engage with your peers in a large cohort. You will see on your timetable that you must attend a weekly lectorial. Should you not attend, the lectorials will be video recorded to watch later.

• Lectorial: Wednesdays at 09:00 to 10:00 via Bb Collaborate on Timetable Weeks 27 to 35 and 38 to 40.

• Workshops are a group of students engaged in a focused area of study to exchange information, complete activities, and hold discussions.

You will see on your timetable that you must attend a workshop every three weeks. You should note that workshops will not be video recorded.

• Workshop: Wednesdays at 13:00 to 17:00 in LWB A8.34 and A8.38 on Timetable Weeks 29, 32, 35 and 40.

3 Module Learning Outcomes (MLOs)

On completion of the module, you will be able to:

3.1 Knowledge and Understanding

1. Define and evaluate selected key theories and concepts associated with teams' main characteristics and processes, the issues facing teams, and the organisational context of teams.

2. Critically appraise selected key theories and techniques associated with the groups and teams in an organisation, organisational structures and management processes.

3.2 Intellectual/Professional Skills and Abilities

3. Empowered with the knowledge, skills and abilities to create, participate in and effectively lead real and virtual project-orientated teams.

4. Critically review the literature on team dynamics, management and organisational behaviour and engage with what others have written through evaluative discourse.

3.3 Personal Values Attributes

5. Exhibit the professional ethics characteristics of a Northumbria University postgraduate student. You will have the opportunity to reflect on how these are related to your values and review your personal, professional development plan.

4 How Will I Be Assessed?

4.1 Formative Assessment

Academic staff on the module will assess you in a formative manner to help build your confidence and highlight any misunderstandings you may have of the theoretical and professional concepts presented in the module. Your formative feedback will be given to you either verbally by academic staff on the module

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during formally-scheduled teaching sessions or digitally using the University’s VLE. Your formative feedback aims to help you learn and prepare for the submission of your summative assessment.

4.2 Summative Assessment

Academic staff on the module will assess you in a summative manner by two pieces of inter-related coursework. Academic staff on the module will use Coursework 2 to evaluate your ability to satisfy all the module’s learning outcomes. You will use Bb to submit your coursework. Academic staff on the module will use digital feedback tools to issue your feedback for Coursework 2. Coursework 1 is the peer review of your draft Coursework 2.

5 Research-Rich Learning

Northumbria University is a research-rich and research-directed higher education institution. As a result, research-focused teaching and learning activity is central to the philosophy of all taught programmes and at the core of the student experience. This module is therefore designed to enable you to explore and evaluate published key research relevant to the subject. This includes the potential for you to realise the personal satisfaction that comes from studying, evaluating and challenging existing knowledge. The module implicitly provides you with academic staff-guided research-informed scheduled and independent learning programmes that will support you while engaging in research-related discussions and debates. The module will also facilitate your ability to learn more about your chosen discipline and facilitate the development of your research-related enquiry skills and literature searching and reviewing techniques. Secondary to developing a research-centric focus to your personal skills, abilities and subject-related knowledge will be your acquisition of a range of finely tuned postgraduate employability skills, including problem-solving, academic verbal and written communication, critical reasoning and thinking, and digital literacy.

6 Attendance

The University has a well-established student attendance monitoring policy. As a result, if you are an on- campus student, the University expects you to attend all formally-scheduled on-campus and online teaching sessions. Lectures will introduce you to the essential theories concerning research design and methods. Seminars will guide you through the process of selectively applying some of these theories and methods by introducing you to research-related IT applications. This approach will allow you to begin the process of critically analysing the theories concerning research design and methods. Your independent and tutor-directed study will need to be conducted in your own time. Off-campus students will engage with the lectures and seminars differently; they will be required to review the video recordings of the lecture PowerPoint presentations and to participate in tutor-directed and student independent learning programmes.

7 Notional Student Workload

The module includes a total of 200 hours of notional student workload. Although this is a nominal figure, (as students work at different paces), the breakdown of time is as follows:

• Lectures 22 hours

• Seminars 10 hours

• Tutor-guided independent learning 56 hours

• Student independent learning 112 hours

8 Module Communication

The module leader will set up a discussion board on the Bb site called Module Discussion Board for you to use to ask general questions about the module and coursework to your peers and the module leader. If you want to ask your peers or module leader a question about the module or assessment, you will need to create a thread or contribute to an existing thread on the relevant discussion board. Before doing so, you will need to create a Bb Profile that includes a portrait photograph of yourself. The module leader will try to answer all questions placed on the forum regularly (normally twice weekly); sometimes, your peers may answer your questions before the module leader. The expectation is that all students, i.e., full- and part-time on-campus and off-campus, will use the forum so that the cohort will gain the benefit of the

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questions and answers. By doing so, no one loses out or gains an unfair advantage. The discussion board will also help to create an online academic community. It would be best not to use the discussion board to ask a personal/sensitive question to the module leader. In these instances, you should send a Bb Message to the module leader. Should the module leader deem your question not to be personal or sensitive in nature, he will ask you to place your question on the discussion board.

9 Module Teaching Team Correspondence Details

Dr Allan Osborne – [email protected] Dr Kelechi Anyigor – [email protected]

10 Guidance for Students on Policies for Assessment

The University has several policies for assessment. The following information, which is available to you from the link below, provides guidance on these policies, including relevant procedures and forms.

(1) Assessment Regulations and Policies (a) Assessment Regulations for Taught Awards (b) Group Work Assessments Policy (c) Moderation Policy (d) Retention of Assessed Work Policy (e) Word Limits Policy

(2) Assessment Feedback (a) Anonymous Marking Policy

(3) Late Submission of Work and Extension Requests (4) Personal Extenuating Circumstances (5) Technical Extenuating Circumstances (6) Student Complaints and Appeals (7) Academic Misconduct (8) Student Disability and Unforeseen Medical Circumstances

https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/university-services/academic-registry/quality-and-teaching- excellence/assessment/guidance-for-students/