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Creative Business Leadership (BCI) - TFT00025I
Module summary
This is a module about managing and leading people and about creating effective and productive creative teams: the human driving force behind the creative industries. And it goes to the heart of creative entrepreneurship: it will explore how students can inspire people by involving them in the realisation of their ideas, or by bringing leadership and organisational skills to collective creative endeavours.
Module will run
| Occurrence | Teaching period |
|---|---|
| A | Autumn Term 2022-23 |
Module aims
This module aims to:
Equip you with the skills to lead and manage creative teams and to understand creative individuals
Acquaint you with different management structures, and management techniques, and the contexts in which they might be used.
Engage you in the critical analysis of workplace situations, and workflow procedures
Equip you with with a series of critical and practical tools for the solving of management, or team-leadership, problems.
Acquaint you with the specific leadership and management demands of the creative industries, and how those demands might vary from sector to sector.
Module learning outcomes
At the end of this module students will:
Be able to promote productive working practices in creative industrial areas through the application of developed leadership and management skills
Be able to critically analyse workplace situations or team-working problems and apply solutions based on a knowledge of key management and leadership techniques.
Be able to promote or encourage effective team-working through developed interpersonal and communication skills.
Be able to negotiate the particular leadership issues that emerge from working in the creative industries, and to distinguish between the challenges in different sectors, screen, stage, digital media and so on.
Module content
This module will combine traditional modes of learning - lecture, seminar, etc, - with problem-based learning in scenario-based workshops. In many cases the scenarios will be drawn from industrial case studies.
Indicative assessment
| Task | % of module mark |
|---|---|
| Essay/coursework | 70 |
| Oral presentation/seminar/exam | 30 |
Special assessment rules
None
Additional assessment information
Formative work is embedded in seminar feedback, in the practical feedback and which dominate the final seminars of autumn term as student prepare for their summative assessment.
Indicative reassessment
| Task | % of module mark |
|---|---|
| Essay/coursework | 70 |
| Oral presentation/seminar/exam | 30 |
Module feedback
Feedback will be delivered in four weeks in keeping with University regulations. Verbal feedback on the presentation will be delivered as soon as possible to assist students with their second assessment, the case-study portfolio.
Indicative reading
Chris Bilton, Management and Creativity (London: Wiley-Blackwell, 2006)
Barbara Rownley, Managing Creativity: Exploring the Paradox (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011)
Constance Devereaux, The Arts Management Handbook (London: Routledge, 2011)
David Stephenson, Managing Organisational Success in the Arts (London: Routledge, 2018)
Keith Sawyer, Group Genius: The Creative Power of Collaboration (London: Basic Books, 2008)