Finance & Management MSc
Management Issues and Controversies MGT5264
- Academic Session: 2026-27
- School: Adam Smith Business School
- Credits: 10
- Level: Level 5 (SCQF level 11)
- Typically Offered: Semester 2
- Available to Visiting Students: No
- Collaborative Online International Learning: No
- Curriculum For Life: No
Short Description
This course takes an issue-centred approach using recent case studies to encourage reflective learning, critical awareness and self-development. Students are guided through important contemporary issues, concerns and debates as a means of exploring and reviewing their attitudes and orientations to management, leadership and organisation.
Timetable
5 x 2 hour lectures
3 x 2 hour tutorials
Excluded Courses
None
Co-requisites
None
Assessment
1. Written assignment, including essay; Individual; 1700 words; 100%; ILOs 1-3.
Course Aims
This course guides students through a selection of the most important, pressing and controversial topics in management, leadership and organisation. It aims to develop an informed understanding of competing viewpoints, principles and often complex arguments, and encourage students to think critically about the attitudes, orientations and ambitions they bring to their own management learning and development.
Intended Learning Outcomes of Course
By the end of this course students will be able to:
1. Identify the most intensely controversial aspects of contemporary management and leadership.
2. Explain the significance of contextual conditions, and especially the impact of organizational and environmental turbulence on management issues and controversies.
3. Evaluate competing claims and the influence of different perspectives notably shareholder vs stakeholder theory to explore controversial issues arising from leadership failures in terms of ethical considerations and legal requirements.