Paper details
Contemporary Issues in Management
MGT3020M (20152016)
Assessment Details
Term 2
For this term, the module is assessed by the submission of one (1) individual piece of assessment in the format of an essay
of three thousand (3.000) words (10% discretion applied). The mark of this essay counts as the 50% of the overall module
mark.
Essay Questions You
have to choose one of the following questions.
1. Consider the reflexivity of a manager in a contemporary organisation. Discuss using examples.
Practical reflexivity deepens reflection by interrogating the takenfor
granted by questioning our relationship with our social
world and the ways in which we account for our experience (Cunliffe, 2009, p. 45).
2. Consider how the notion of ‘voice’ can aid our understanding of [a]an organisational issue or [b] organisational practice.
“The critical perspective of studying voice as a response to change “challenges the managerial view” (Mackenzie, Davey
and Liefooghe, 2004, p. 180) and considers the impact of using voice on employees “ . Source:Bryant,
.M. (2006) “Talking about change: Understanding employee responses through qualitative research”, Management
Decision, Vol. 44 Iss: 2, pp.246 258
3. Sims (2003) the lives of middle managers is illuminated by considering the special pressures on them to tell stories
about their organization.
Your discussion should illuminate these storytelling practices and pay attention to possible audiences to whom these
stories are told [ their superiors, their subordinates and themselves
