INTEGRATIVE APPLIED PROJECT - 2020/1

Module Overview

This is a capstone project, which enables students to demonstrate their ability to bring the knowledge and skills acquired during the entire programme to practice in a holistic way. The project can take two forms:

• A business plan – students may want to start their own business and this project can be the first step on that journey. The business plan will have to be actionable and will be judged on how compelling it makes the case for the entrepreneur or the venture capitalist.;


• A consultancy report –  students may prefer to work on live business problems to find solutions. A consultancy will have to be actionable by the client and will be judged on the added value that the customer receives from the consultancy. The client can be corporate, public or third sector;


• Traditional Dissertation – Focusing on a wider issue practical or theoretical issue in a specific industry and investigating the research problem rooted in theoretical frameworks and concepts.

Module provider

Surrey Business School

Module Leader

MAHON Christopher (SBS)

Number of Credits: 30

ECTS Credits: 15

Framework: FHEQ Level 7

Module cap (Maximum number of students): N/A

Module Availability

Semester 2

Prerequisites / Co-requisites

None

Module content

Indicative content includes:

• Methodology and methods


• Management evaluation techniques


• Scenario analysis


• Client added value

Assessment pattern

Alternative Assessment

n/a

Assessment Strategy

The assessment strategy is designed to provide students with the opportunity to demonstrate their ability to apply knowledge and skills developed during the MBA to real scenarios

Thus, the summative assessment, due by Monday of week 55 (FT and PT), consists of:

The Integrative Research Project which should be no more than 10,000 words.

Formative assessment

There is an ongoing process of formative assessment through the one-to-one interactions between student and supervisor.

Feedback

There is an ongoing process of feedback through the one-to-one interactions between student and supervisor.

Module aims

• Enable students to address real problems and propose valuable, actionable solutions
• Improve students' ability to identify opportunities for corporate, public or third sector organisations and present them in an actionable and compelling way

Learning outcomes

Methods of Teaching / Learning

The learning and teaching strategy for the Management Research component of the module is designed to encourage students to think critically about their role as providers of solutions or enablers of opportunities for stakeholders in the corporate, public or third sectors.. The University’s virtual learning environment (SurreyLearn) will be used to support student learning by providing them with, alongside teaching materials, formative materials and additional resources and links to useful websites. The teaching and learning strategy for the project component is designed to allow the students to take responsibility for their own learning and progress, supported by individual supervision during which students will be able to explain, discuss and refine their particular ideas (including organisation specific research problems) with their supervisor through regular supervision.

 

The learning and teaching methods include:

1.    Compulsory workshop and surgeries designed to develop report writing skills

2.    Student-led class discussions and research scenarios are used to put theory into application and transform the acquired knowledge into practice3.    One-on-one supervision

 

Indicated Lecture Hours (which may also include seminars, tutorials, workshops and other contact time) are approximate and may include in-class tests where one or more of these are an assessment on the module. In-class tests are scheduled/organised separately to taught content and will be published on to student personal timetables, where they apply to taken modules, as soon as they are finalised by central administration. This will usually be after the initial publication of the teaching timetable for the relevant semester.

Reading list

https://readinglists.surrey.ac.uk
Upon accessing the reading list, please search for the module using the module code: MANM363

Programmes this module appears in

Please note that the information detailed within this record is accurate at the time of publishing and may be subject to change. This record contains information for the most up to date version of the programme / module for the 2020/1 academic year.