Portfolio 3000 words

The Significance of Context on Practice:
The module content is a critical response to the argument that leadership does not take place in a vacuum, it is not acontextual, not ahistorical, not astructural, not apolitical, not aprocesural. Therefore, a critical response to leadership must include these factors. The core skills outlined will be developed through a consideration of the significance of context on business practice.
• Introduction and overview of module. Learning at Masters level and becoming a scholarly practitioner. 
• Power and authority in organisations and the significance of context. 
• Critical analysis of organisational influences. Reading academic journal articles deliberately and critically, in business contexts. 
• Writing a critical annotated reference.
• Models of professional learning including reflective practise, informed reflective practice, the scholarly practitioner.
• The significance of formal organisational structures and cultures on leadership practice. Critical overview of student’s organisational structure and culture. Identify tensions between formal and informal structures and cultures.
• Power and influence in business organisations. 
• Is there a place for bureaucracy? The learner as a professionalised bureaucrat and significance to leadership practice.
• Writing a critical response to an academic journal article.
• Review of module and preparation for the assessment tasks.

Scholarly Business Practice - 7100LODMBA

Scholarly Business Practice

Work independently as scholarly business practitioners

Critique academic journal articles and produce a critical literature review

Critically engage with literature and published research appropriate to their business contexts