| CODE | MGT5917 | ||||||
| TITLE | Stakeholders' Values and Concerns | ||||||
| UM LEVEL | 05 - Postgraduate Modular Diploma or Degree Course | ||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 7 | ||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 5 | ||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Business and Enterprise Management | ||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This study-unit propagates the argument that evidence exists within a context, in this case organizational and institutional contexts. Decision-making is not a mere straight-forward cognitive process but is also embedded within a socio-emotional environment which is dynamic and interactive. Therefore, the implications of evidence-based management will be discussed within broader issues like the role of stakeholders, organizational values, power effects on the interpretation of evidence, politics in organizations, the phenomenon of knowledge hiding and knowledge hoarding, and the effects of multiculturalism in organizations on decision-making. This unit will equip participants with the contextual complexity of evidence-based management and support their thinking on improved tactics on how to steer through organizational issues in view of making good decisions. This study unit shall cover the following topics: 1. Building an Evidence-Based Management Culture; 2. The Evidence-based manager; 3. Role of stakeholders in evidence-based decisions; 4. Organizational values and decision-making and debating rationality in organizations; 5. Power effects on the interpretation of evidence; 6. Politics in organizations and the management of research in organizations; 7. Knowledge management (KM), Introducing KM Enablers; knowledge sharing processes; knowledge hiding and knowledge hoarding; 8. Multi-culturalism and varied decision-making forms. Study-unit Aims: The study-unit has 2 broad aims: 1. To assist the students in appreciating that the generation, dissemination and diffusion of evidence in organizations resides in a wider socio-political context; 2. To assist the students in comprehending the role of organizational structures and processes as determined by internal and external stakeholders' context and values influence the impact of decision-making. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: 1. Describe stakeholder influence on quality of decision-making and evidence management; 2. Identify those factors within and outside organizations that impinge on evidence-driven management; 3. Explain these factors from a more holistic perspective; 4. Discuss critically the concept of 'knowledge' within an organizational perspective. 2. Skills By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: 1. Make propositions to ensure a fair and reliable trade-off between stakeholder values and concerns and the quality of decision-making; 2. Propose strategies that assess stakeholders' values and concerns in light of evidence-based management in organizations. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: Essential text Rousseau, D. M. (Ed) (2012). The Oxford Handbook of Evidence-Based Management. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Apart from these books, students will be provided a number of paper and article resources as study packs. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | ||||||
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| LECTURER/S | David Baldacchino Luke Buhagiar Vincent Cassar Patricia Vella Bonanno |
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