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MAN-20199 - Module Specification
Keele Business School
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

For academic year: 2025/26 Last Updated: 04 December 2025

MAN-20199 - Professional and Academic Development 2
Coordinator: Aikaterini Koskina Room: DW1.08 Tel: +44 1782 7 33428
Lecture Time: See Timetable...
Level: Level 5
Credits: 15
Study Hours: 150
School Office: 01782 733094

Programme/Approved Electives for 2025/26

None

Available as a Free Standing Elective

No

Co-requisites

None

Prerequisites

no

Barred Combinations

no

Description for 2025/26

Using your commercial awareness and enterprise skills, you will tackle an actual organisational challenge, collaborating with a team gain first-hand experience of working with an organisation. This hands-on experience not only enhances your practical abilities but also encourages critical reflection on your personal and professional growth, steering you towards effective problem-solving and continued development of your professional identity.

Aims
The aim of the module is to provide the opportunity for students to develop their commercial awareness and enterprise skills through tackling a an actual organisational challenge, collaborating with a team gain first-hand experience of working with an organisation. This hands-on experience is intended to enhance students' practical abilities but also encourage critical reflection on their personal and professional growth.

Intended Learning Outcomes

apply commercial awareness and enterprise skills to collaboratively address a real-world organisational challenge, demonstrating problem-solving and innovation.
: 1
evaluate personal and professional growth through critical reflection on team-based experiences and interactions with organisational stakeholders.: 2
develop practical abilities in project management, communication, and collaboration by working effectively within a team to deliver a solution to an organisational challenge.: 1,2

Study hours

Active Learning Hours: 24
Independent Study Hours: 126

School Rules

None

Description of Module Assessment

1: Group Assessment weighted 50%
Group Info Sheet
A group info sheet (2,000 words) assessing and resolving a real-world organisational challenge with reference to enterprise skills, such as creativity, innovation, risk-taking, and problem-solving, and connection to relevant theories and concepts. The info sheet will be shared with the organisation that set the challenge. Group size will depend on the challenge set by the organisation (usually no more than 10-12 students per group). Students are expected to work in quality circles where peer support and feedback will be provided.

2: Reflective Diary weighted 50%
Individual Reflection
Individual reflection (1,000 words) on experience of working with an organisation to solve a real-world business challenge and on team collaboration and performance.

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 December 2025