| CODE | MGT5918 | ||||||||
| TITLE | Tools and Practices to Enhance Evidence-based Decision-making | ||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 05 - Postgraduate Modular Diploma or Degree Course | ||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 7 | ||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 5 | ||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Business and Enterprise Management | ||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | The study-unit will first start with an overview of the important techniques in EBMgt. Then the core of the study unit will consist of a seminar, a workshop, and a business game. Seminar: Conducting CATs (Critically Appraised Topics) Questions this seminar will address are: • How do you conduct a CAT? • What are the key stages? • How do you formulate a practical question? • What are appropriate search strategies? • What information should be extracted for each study? • What are some of the ways that findings can be synthesized? • How should the findings be reported? Workshop: CAT-walk Students will choose a managerial question that they want to gather scientific evidence on. Such a question might be something like one of these: • When are distributed teams more likely to perform effectively? • Would pay-for-performance work in our company? • When is investing in workforce training most likely to be financially beneficial? The students’ task is to evaluate relevant, best available scientific research to answer their question, and to present their findings and recommendations in a 10-minute presentation. Business game: Evidence-based case competition The competition features a case based on an alleged organizational problem. The protagonists in the case have gathered some relevant (and irrelevant) organizational data, stakeholder concerns, and experiential evidence, and have identified some previous research to consider. Students, who are divided into teams (n= 3–4), will be encouraged to seek and critically appraise additional evidence, followed by a presentation and defense in front of a panel of (trained) judges. Students will be encouraged to provide feedback to each other and will be given time to reflect before the judges provide comments to the team they are evaluating. Study-unit Aims: The main aim of the study unit is to provide students with hands-on experience of what practicing in an evidence-based way entails. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: • apply the knowledge acquired in previous study units to the daily practice of management and consulting; • have a knowledgeable opinion of the effectiveness of the techniques applied. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: • Ask: translate a practical issue or problem into an answerable question; • Acquire: systematically search for and retrieve evidence; • Appraise: critically judge the trustworthiness and relevance of the evidence; • Aggregate: weigh and pull together the evidence; • Apply: incorporate the evidence into the decision-making process. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: This is a seminar-type study unit which builds on previous study units. All material shall be provided by the study-unit coordinator during the seminar itself. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture and Seminar | ||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Eric Barends Vincent Cassar |
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The availability of optional units may be subject to timetabling constraints. Units not attracting a sufficient number of registrations may be withdrawn without notice. It should be noted that all the information in the description above applies to study-units available during the academic year 2023/4. It may be subject to change in subsequent years. |
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