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GCP-10007 - Module Specification
Keele Business School
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

For academic year: 2024/25 Last Updated: 04 March 2025

GCP-10007 - Enterprise and the Future of Work 1
Coordinator: Abhishek Behl
Lecture Time: See Timetable...
Level: Level 4
Credits: 15
Study Hours: 150
School Office: 01782 733094

Programme/Approved Electives for 2024/25

Global Challenge Pathway Global Challenge Pathway (Level 4)


Available as a Free Standing Elective

No

Co-requisites

None

Prerequisites

None

Barred Combinations

None

Description for 2024/25

This module is intended to form and frame a learning path for developing knowledge and understanding of the changing world of work alongside enterprise and entrepreneurship as a theme that crosses subject and national boundaries. Students will have the opportunity to work with academics, businesses and their peers on a number of authentic challenges designed to enhance their enterprise and employability profile.

Aims
This module is the establishing step of the Enterprise and the Future of Work pathway. It aims to enhance the student awareness of global challenges and the skills needed to develop their professional profile in order to secure jobs and create opportunities throughout their career in the contemporary world. It invites students to engage with enterprise by focusing on live case studies in order to explore ways in which enterprise can enhance and address global challenges positively. Through experiential learning the module aims to foster a range of skills in enterprise, professional development and employability that will be developed further in the subsequent pathway modules at levels 5 and 6.

Intended Learning Outcomes

discuss and compare enterprise and employability responses to global challenges across different disciplinary perspectives and amongst diverse stakeholders: 1
reflect on your professional development needs in relation to Enterprise and the Future of Work module content: 2
apply their academic knowledge and learning to real-world contexts: 1,2
develop practices of digital communication and collaboration in relation to Enterprise and the Future of Work: 1,2

Study hours

- 24 hours of compulsory online and offline sessions (e.g. lectures/seminars/workshops)
- 116 hours of independent study including group work, assignment preparation, weekly research tasks
- up to10 hours protected slots in semester 2 timetabled as 1 hour weekly sessions for students to work on their group project assignment

School Rules

None

Description of Module Assessment

1: Group Assessment weighted 40%
Group innovation project


2: Report weighted 60%
A blog post looking at a future of work issue


The University undertakes a continuous review of its teaching and research provision to ensure programmes are of a high quality and changes may be made to modules where it is necessary and reasonable to do so. Please be aware that minor changes to modules, such as a change to an individual assessment, can occur up until enrolment, although we endeavour to give you as much notice as possible of any changes. Details about the circumstance in which changes are made to programmes can be found in the Student Agreement, available at: https://www.keele.ac.uk/legalgovernancecompliance/governance/actcharterstatutesordinancesandregulations/studenttermsconditions/

Last Updated: 04 March 2025