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Title Managing Performance, Development, Reward, and Well-being
Code ULMS784
Coordinator Professor YRF Guillaume
Work, Organisation and Management
Yves.Guillaume@liverpool.ac.uk
Year CATS Level Semester CATS Value
Session 2023-24 Level 7 FHEQ Second Semester 15

Pre-requisites before taking this module (other modules and/or general educational/academic requirements):
 

Modules for which this module is a pre-requisite:
 

Programme(s) (including Year of Study) to which this module is available on a required basis:
 

Programme(s) (including Year of Study) to which this module is available on an optional basis:
 

Teaching Schedule
  Lectures Seminars Tutorials Lab Practicals Fieldwork Placement Other TOTAL
Study Hours 12

 12

       6

 30
Timetable (if known)              
Private Study 120
TOTAL HOURS 150

Assessment
EXAM Duration Timing
(Semester)		 % of
final
mark		 Resit/resubmission
opportunity		 Penalty for late
submission		 Notes
             
CONTINUOUS Duration Timing
(Semester)		 % of
final
mark		 Resit/resubmission
opportunity		 Penalty for late
submission		 Notes
Individual report. There is a resit opportunity. Standard UoL penalty applies for late submission. This is an anonymous assessment.  0    70       
Individual report. There is a resit opportunity. Standard UoL penalty applies for late submission. This is an anonymous assessment.  0    30       

Aims

This module aims to:

Equip students with a critical awareness of the strategic and operational implications for managing performance and development, reward, and workplace well-being within organisations. It will consider recent developments in the sector and wider environment, the role of technology, and international perspectives;

Enable students to design and evaluate the effectiveness of evidence-based approaches to performance management and development, reward including benefits and executive remuneration packages as well as workplace well-being.

Learning Outcomes

(LO1) Students will be able to demonstrate critical awareness of the strategic and operational implications for managing performance, development, reward and workplace well-being within organisations.

(LO2) Students will be able to design evidence-based performance management and development approaches to facilitate engagement and continuous improvement, and evaluate their effectiveness.

(LO3) Students will be able to design evidence-based reward and benefit approaches to attract, motivate and retain workers including executive remuneration packages and reporting, and evaluate their effectiveness.

(LO4) Students will be able to design evidence-based wellbeing approaches to enable a resilient workforce and healthy working environment and evaluate their effectiveness.

(LO5) Students will be able to demonstrate critical awareness of international perspectives and recent trends in the sector and wider environment on managing performance and development, reward and workplace well-being, and evaluate their effectiveness.

(LO6) Students will be able to demonstrate critical awareness of current and future technology for improving performance and evaluate its impact on the workforce and people practices.

(S1) Problem solving
Students will be challenged to think critically about organisational issues and find evidence-based solutions about how to resolve them. They will do this through a range of individual and group activities including the coursework.

(S2) Commercial awareness
Commercial issues will be covered in the module and related group as and individual activities. Students will be able to demonstrate their commercial awareness in the coursework.

(S3) Organisation skills
This is relevant for planning scheduled individual and group work as well as meeting assessment deadlines. This will be evident in the students’ independent management of their learning and by meeting the coursework deadlines.

(S4) Communication skills
Students will have opportunities to develop written and oral communication skills through individual and group activities. Written communication skills will be assessed in the coursework.

(S5) International awareness
International issues will be covered in the module and related group and individual activities. Students will be able to demonstrate international awareness in the coursework.

(S6) Lifelong learning skills
Students will have opportunities to develop a range of lifelong learning skills including critical thinking, creativity, reflection, and digital skills through individual and group activities and engaging with a range of digital technologies. Students will be able to demonstrate critical thinking, creativity, reflection, and through the use of online resources digital skills in the coursework.

(S7) Ethical awareness
Ethical issues will be covered in the module and related group and individual activities. Students will be able to demonstrate ethical awareness in the coursework.

(S8) Teamwork and leadership
Students will develop their teamworking and leadership skills through individual and group activities and engagement in self-reflection activities in the seminars.

Teaching and Learning Strategies

2 hour lecture x 6 weeks
2 hour seminar x 6 weeks
1 hour group learning x 6 weeks
120 hours self-directed learning

Syllabus
 

Indicative syllabus:

Strategic and contextual aspects of managing performance and development, reward, and workplace well-being;

Practice of performance management and development;

Practice of reward management;

Practice of workplace well-being;

International perspectives on managing performance and development, reward and workplace well-being;

Recent trends and the role of technology in managing performance and development, reward, and workplace well-being.

Recommended Texts
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