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BU5964: MANAGING DISTRIBUTED TEAMS (2014-2015)

Last modified: 28 Jun 2018 10:27


Course Overview

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Course Details

Study Type Postgraduate Level 5
Session Full Year Credit Points 15 credits (7.5 ECTS credits)
Campus Old Aberdeen Sustained Study No
Co-ordinators
  • Dr Ian Heywood

What courses & programmes must have been taken before this course?

None.

What other courses must be taken with this course?

None.

What courses cannot be taken with this course?

None.

Are there a limited number of places available?

No

Course Description

The indicative content covered by the course would include the following topics:

•  Motivation in a wired workplace.

•  Managing performance on-line.

•  Effective on-line communication.

•  Technologies for teams - what works and what does not?

•  Understanding cultural contexts for distributed working.

•  Tools and techniques for co-creation and collaboration.

•  Work-life balance in a networked world. 


Contact Teaching Time

Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.

Teaching Breakdown

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Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 31 August 2023 for 1st half-session courses and 22 December 2023 for 2nd half-session courses.

Summative Assessments

1st attempt:

1.    An individual Assessment comprising 40% of the total course marks.

2.    A group piece comprising 30% of the total course marks

3.    An individual Professional Reflective Review comprising 30% of the course marks.

 The individual assessment (1. and 3. above) is as follows:

1.    An individual contribution to a theoretical issue, a case issue or work-based issue (2000 words) – 40% of total course marks.

2.    A reflective review of the lessons learned through participation in the course (1500 words or a 5min video/oral presentation) – 30% of the total course marks.

Material for these individual assessed elements will be obtained through a series of timetabled individual and group activities complemented by directed reading and own research.

The group assessment (2. above) is as follows:

A group activity/challenge – 30% of the total course marks. In undertaking the challenge, and in the preparation of the assessed requirements (see on), students are required to keep minutes of their group meetings and record peer contributions. The assessment team as part of the assessment process reviews these minutes along with the reflections on peer contributions.

The group-assessed requirements for this course are the co-creation of  ‘a guidance paper’ targeted at providing company wide guidance on how to deploy, support and manage distributed team working.  

Resit: There is no opportunity to resit the group-based assignment. Students may retake the individual coursework assignments within six weeks of having received a coursework grade of less than cas 9 together with feedback on performance.


Formative Assessment

There are no assessments for this course.

Feedback

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Course Learning Outcomes

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