Making strategic decisions must be implemented within volatile business environments and this is complicated by internal decision making and the action of competitors. This course enables students to explore this complex and dynamic process through the use of a teams-based business simulation where each team is competing with the others to deliver the best overall organisational performance.

​As the key experience of the programme, Delivering Performance adopts a blended learning model that integrates experiential learning and technological approaches through a business simulation. This course is scheduled to occur in the final weeks of the teaching programme after the completion of teaching on the specialised pathways. This course will allow students to engage with the simulation to apply their learning within core and specialised courses in a real-world context, simulating the role of a management team within a business environment.  Students will use their experience in group work, specialist knowledge within pathways and data generated from engagement with the simulation to inform responsible decision making within a dynamic business environment. Critical reflection on individual performance will help graduates to hone the development of their transferable employability skills.

Students will develop graduate attributes such as becoming experienced collaborators, ethically and socially aware and become reflective learners, In addition, students will develop digital skills by engaging with the simulation and interpreting the data to inform decision making. Finally, students will develop group work skills.

Synchronous online lectures: 3 x 2 hours

Tutorial workshops: 9 x 2 hours

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This course aims to:

■ develop student understanding of the interrelated nature of management decisions both across business functions and within a competitive market;

■ it will demonstrate the difficulties arising from group decision making and the problems inherent in implementing business decisions arising from the dynamic nature of the competitive environment.

By the end of this course students will be able to:

1. Applying their understanding across a range of management concepts to systematically and critically compare and evaluate the application of the most appropriate concepts to facilitate analytical decision making at each step of the simulation.

2. Evaluating the decisions made and the outcomes, in respect of their effects upon the business and sustainable impact.

3. Work collaboratively in a group to produce a combined piece of coursework, by liaising with other class members, allocating tasks and co-ordinating group meetings.

4.Reflect critically upon their activities and decisions both as a group and as individuals and the effectiveness of their approach to decision making and possible alternative options.

5. Evaluate and reflect upon the impact of the dynamic nature of interrelated functional and competitive decision making upon their performance within the simulation and the difficulties of taking and implementing business decisions.

Students must submit at least 75% by weight of the components (including examinations) of the course's summative assessment.