Workshop 1

Week 1

Introduction to
Business &
Management
 By the end of week 1, you will ….
• Introductions – teacher and peers
• Lecture recap
• Explored module outline aims, learning
Learning outcomes, assessment, topics, core text
Outcomes for • Formed and met your group
Lecture and • Read the student charter and developed
class rules
Workshop • Be able to define ‘what is management’?
• Have ago at a fun activity
• Evaluation
• Reading for next week’s workshop
Contact Details

Alison Bailey
Room 142, Jubilee Building
Office Hours:

Tuesday: 12- 1pm

Wednesday: 11-12pm

alison.bailey@sussex.ac.uk
Introductions …

You have 10 minutes to

find anyone who:
• Is on the same degree
pathway as you.
• Lives in the same
town/city as you.
• Supports the same
football team.
• Likes the same music.
Lecture Review: Group Activity
Scrap paper and pens required!

In your table groups you have 5 minutes to write on a piece of paper:

• Write two questions based on the this week’s lecture (you must know the
answer to those two questions and don’t write the answers on the paper!)
• Then circulate your questions to other tables for them to answer
• When you receive the questions, discuss the answers with your group
• Write answers on the paper and pass back

The activity is over when all tables have answered the questions
Lecture Recap …
Please make sure you
have access to your e-text
book
Introduction to Management
Oxford University Press

Author: Combe, C

E-book via CANVAS

• If you are having problems, please email

Rachel.Bramley@sussex.ac.uk or go to the library
help desk.
Module Handbook
• Module handbook is located in CANVAS.
• Key information about the module,
assessment, weekly lecture and workshop
topics.
• Presentation assessment criteria.
• Tutor contact information.

• PLEASE READ!
IBM (N1065) Learning
Outcomes
By the end of this module you should be able to:

• Display understanding of a range of reliable and relevant concepts

underlying the study of contemporary business and management.

• Show an ability to engage in critical discussion of issues affecting

contemporary business.

• Analyse a selected organisation’s approach to a selected managerial

process.

• Evaluate the success of a selected organisation’s performance and its

undertaking of a selected managerial process.

Learning outcome 1 & 2 will be assessed through the MCQ in Week 7;

learning outcome 3 & 4 will be assessed through the presentation in Week
11/12
Weekly Workshop Topics
• Week 1 Introduction to the module and people. Management activity.
• Week 2 Management roles, levels and skills. MCQ with a difference.
• Week 3 Business Environment – tools to scan the environment.
• Week 4 Culture, CSR and Ethics.
• Week 5 Business Analytics in action – case study. Excel will be used so laptops are required.
• Week 6 READING WEEK – no workshops – please use the time to revise for the MCQ.
• Week 7 MCQ Test and Introduction to the Business Simulation (Quarter 1)
• Week 8 Business Simulation (Quarter 2)
• Week 9 CMI Pitch and Business Simulation (Quarter 3)
• Week 10 Business Simulation (Quarter 4)
• Week 11 Business Presentations
Note- Reading Week: For many other modules
• Week 12 Business Presentations and feedback and schools this is still a normal teaching week
so please check with your individual tutors.
Two Assessments
A Multiple Choice Test (MCQ) Learning outcome 1 & 2
• Week 7 (50% weighting)
• 30 questions. More details to follow.
• Based on lecture topics and text book pages in weeks 1-5
• Results within 2 weeks

Group Presentation Learning Outcome 3 & 4

• Weeks 11/12 (50% weighting) delivered during class time
• Based upon the business simulation.
• Assessed on topics covered throughout the module by teacher and guest speakers.
• PPTs will need to be submitted to your teacher by Week 11 and hard copy brought
to class.
• Results in January 2017

V&E (Visiting and exchange) students will have the same assessment as everyone else
 Group Selection (teacher selects) and Important
Stuff!

1. Please line up across the classroom from left to right

with the people living (originating) furthest away from
Brighton on the left to those living closest to Brighton
on the right.
2. Your tutor will organise you into groups.
3. Once in your group - introduce yourselves – give each
other contact details – set up a WhatsApp group (for
example?)
4. Give your group a name.
5. Write your group name on the paper (and also your full
names). Please pass the sheets to your teacher.
Class Rules
• In your group, decide upon
FIVE workshop rules that you
think all students should follow.

• Write your ideas on a piece of

flip chart paper.

• Be prepared to feed back to the

class.
Why Study
Management?
• Studying management is itself a task to be managed
• Take a critical perspective:
• Challenge assumptions!
• Understand management in its
wider context!
• Be aware of alternative ways of
doing things!
• Be generally sceptical towards
what is presented!
• Nothing is so practical like a good theory!
• Studying management involves practical theory, e.g. an
interplay and application of theory and practice
 Managers Create Value

What is needed to make a great

management career?

Let's listen to Jack Ma!

Alibaba’s Success
Is good management that important? The World’s Largest Economies …

Source: corporationsandhealth.org
Tower Activity
(no marshmallows
allowed!)
Objective:
• In your groups, you need to build the tallest tower
with small flat objects (please do not use items
that will break if the tower falls).

Instructions
• Each team member takes a turn choosing an item
and adding it to the stack.
• The winner with the tallest standing tower at the
end of 10 minutes is the winner.
Tower Activity Debrief
• How did your team build the tower as high as it
did?
• What strategy did your team use to build?
• How effective do you think your team was?
• Who took the lead?
• How did you feel during the activity?
• What could you have done differently/better to
achieve the objective?
• What does this tell you about working together?

A manager is …
• Someone who coordinates and oversees the work of other
people so that organisational goals can be accomplished.

• Getting things done through other people

There is a universal need for management …
Conclusions
• Management is a process
• In management there are roles,
styles, abilities and skills
• Managing requires practical theory
• Taking a critical perspective will
deepen your understanding of
management, organisations and
business
• Management is not rocket-science!
…but you have to work hard!
To Sum UP …
• Have we achieved our objectives for this
session?
• What went well in the session?
• Are you clear about the course?
• Do you understand the assessments?
• Do you remember your groups names?
• Have you got group contact details?
• Do you understand the term
management?
• Any questions?
Reading For Next
Week

Chapter 2
Please note: reading supports a whole class
activity.
Place the link on Canvas
• Crash course in Industrial Revolution

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhL5DCizj5c