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BU596N: PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT IN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS (2024-2025)

Last modified: 26 Jul 2024 13:16


Course Overview

Performance Improvement is an established process, used by consultants operating in international businesses. This process combines key elements from performance measuring, change management and project management. In contemporary international business nothing is ever static. This course will help you understand the ways a business evaluates their performance and how a resulting, planned change, designed to increase efficiency and effectiveness, can be managed using project management tools and techniques.

Course Details

Study Type Postgraduate Level 5
Term Third Term Credit Points 30 credits (15 ECTS credits)
Campus Aberdeen Sustained Study No
Co-ordinators
  • Ms Georgia Brown
  • Dr Loliya Kagher

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

  • Any Postgraduate Programme (Studied)
  • MSc International Business Management

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

Performance Improvement is an established process, used by consultants operating in international businesses. This process combines key elements from performance measuring, change management and project management. In contemporary international business nothing is ever static. This course will help you understand the ways a business evaluates their performance and how a resulting, planned change, designed to increase efficiency and effectiveness, can be managed using project management tools and techniques.

  1. To provide you with theoretical and practical knowledge pertaining to the performance improvement process and its use of key concepts and methodologies from measuring organisational performance, understanding change and, project management.
  2. To equip you with the language, skills and, tools needed to support the improvement of organisational performance in your future international workplaces.
  3. To equip you with the language, skills and, tools needed to present the information relating to the improvement of organisational performance in your future international workplaces. This includes the digital tools of performance measuring and project management.

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 30 August 2024 for 1st term courses and 20 December 2024 for 2nd term courses.

Summative Assessments

Report: Individual

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 40
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Individual project report, 2,000 words
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
ConceptualEvaluateCritically appraise the characteristics and the role of Performance Improvement in international business
FactualUnderstandUnderstand the context of Performance Improvement, using the concepts and digital tools of performance measurement, designing the improvement, and managing the improvement
ProceduralApplyApply sound analytical principles to complex business problems
ProceduralEvaluateMake practical recommendations based on a critical evaluation of alternative solutions to open-ended problems

Literature Review

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 60
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3,000-word Literature Review
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
ConceptualEvaluateCritically appraise the characteristics and the role of Performance Improvement in international business
FactualUnderstandUnderstand the context of Performance Improvement, using the concepts and digital tools of performance measurement, designing the improvement, and managing the improvement

Formative Assessment

Class Test - Multiple Choice Questions

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25 questions
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
ConceptualEvaluateCritically appraise the characteristics and the role of Performance Improvement in international business
FactualUnderstandUnderstand the context of Performance Improvement, using the concepts and digital tools of performance measurement, designing the improvement, and managing the improvement

Resit Assessments

Report: Individual

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 100
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4,000-word individual report
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
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Course Learning Outcomes

Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
ProceduralApplyApply sound analytical principles to complex business problems
ProceduralEvaluateMake practical recommendations based on a critical evaluation of alternative solutions to open-ended problems
ConceptualEvaluateCritically appraise the characteristics and the role of Performance Improvement in international business
FactualUnderstandUnderstand the context of Performance Improvement, using the concepts and digital tools of performance measurement, designing the improvement, and managing the improvement
ConceptualAnalyseAnalyse, interpret, and present complex or incomplete data in international environments, to inform strategic decision-making, using a variety of communication methods and digital tools
 

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