Programme Specification - MSc Organisational Behaviour

1. Awarding Body / LSE
2. Details of accreditation by a professional/statutory body, e.g. ESRC; BPS etc / N/A
3. Name of final award / MSc
4. Programme Title / Organisational Behaviour
5. Duration of the course / 12 months
6. Based in the Department/Institute: / Employment Relations and Organisational Behaviour Group (within the Department of Management)
7. Relevant QAA subject benchmark statements / N/A
8. UCAS Code / N6U6
9. First written/last amended / April 2010 / November 2012
10. The programme aims to:
To provide students with the requisite knowledge about behaviour in organisations to facilitate a career in management and consultancy or the foundational knowledge in the discipline to pursue a PhD in Organisational Behaviour.
11. Programme outcomes: knowledge and understanding; skills and other attributes
The knowledge, understanding and skills outcomes are as follows:
  • To provide students with a depth and breadth of knowledge within Macro and Micro OB and the relevance to management and managing within organisations;
  • To facilitate students’ analytical and critical skills in the evaluation of theories, empirical research, organisational practices and their implications for behaviour, attitudes and performance;
  • To facilitate an understanding of the research process and its implications for research findings;
  • To facilitate student understanding of organisational phenomena through an understanding of psychological and sociological theories as they relate to understanding individual, group and organisational behaviour
  • To bridge the research-practice divide by understanding engaged scholarship.

12. Teaching, learning and assessment strategies to enable outcomes to be achieved and demonstrated
Teaching and learning strategies:
The teaching and learning strategies vary across the courses and are designed to facilitate different learning styles from group exercises, case studies, outside speakers, self development exercises.
Assessment strategies: The assessment across the core courses is diverse and the new courses proposed offer a mixed assessment (i.e. Organisational Theory has 10% class participation, 30% group project and 60% individual essay and the dissertation has two components: the dissertation (90%) and the dissertation proposal (10%); Advanced and Emerging Topics in OB has 50% essay and 50% exam for its assessment).
13. Programme structures and requirements, levels, modules and awards
See the MSc Organisational Behaviour programme regulations.

Additional information

14. Criteria for admission to the programme
Students should have a first or a good upper second to be admitted into the programme. English language requirement higher (i.e. IELTS level 7). GRE/ GMAT is required for non UK students.
15. Indicators of quality
There is high demand for programmes in the Department. For example, 5.62 in IER/HRM, 12.04 in HRM, 6.12 in MiM, and 9.35 in MOG.
16. Methods for evaluating and improving the quality and standard of teaching and learning
  • Regular (once a term) staff-student meeting and MSc feedback meetings (twice yearly)
  • TQARO student surveys
  • Annual review of academic staff
  • Regular staff meetings where issues of redesign of programmes and courses are discussed
  • The Teaching and Learning Centre is available to monitor and observe teaching and offers constructive advice on how to improve the standard of teaching and quality.
  • The Teaching Learning and Assessment Committee which regulates all aspects of teaching quality;
  • Departmental TLAC review once every five years.
  • The Graduate Studies Sub-Committee which oversees all graduate programmes and ensures that significant changes to programmes and courses pass through a sequence of formal stages, so that curricular changes are appropriate and compatible with other developments.

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