Programme summary for MA Leadership and Organisational Analysis

About the programme

The Programme is designed for those who wish to develop their effectiveness in leading and managing organisations in ways that liberate others to make a difference in those organisations. They may do this from existing roles within their own organisation or through developing skills in organisational consultancy. Organisational Analysis offers the Transforming Experience Framework which provides a disciplined way of enabling participants to work with their lived experience as leaders and managers. This enables participants to:

Know how to examine and articulate their own current working experience in relation to role and enable others to do so in their turn
Analyse their lived experience in their organisational setting and contexts
Sharpen up and deepen the meaning of that experience in terms of purpose, systems, contexts and roles through paying attention to boundaries
Recognise the significance of unconscious processes in organisational life and learn to work with them creatively
Grasp opportunities to find, make and take up organisational roles more effectively
Transform contributions towards articulating and achieving the corporate aims of institutions

Programme structure

Typically this Programme is a 2 -; 3 year part-time programme, made up of two Double Modules (each worth 60 credits) and a dissertation (worth 60 credits). It is possible to start the Programme in October.

Double Module 1, Finding, Making and Taking One's Role, introduces the basic concepts and methods of Organisational Analysis and their application to how the participant is taking her or his own organisational role(s).

Double Module 2, Organisational Transformation, is designed to deepen participants' experience of using the concepts and methodologies of Organisational Analysis, with the focus on enabling and leading transformation in the organisation as a whole.

The third Module, Organisational Analysis in Practice, involves the completion of the independent organisational transformation project initiated in Double Module 2 and a dissertation critically analysing the project and its impact.

Career opportunities

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Support

Each participant will be accepted onto the Programme as a result of personal interviews with the Programme Director and the Programme Progression Adviser/Tutor (PPAT), the Programme's equivalent of a personal tutor. In the interview with the Director the heart of the discussion will be about the potential participant's desire to take part in the Programme and the suitability of the Programme to meet that desire. In the interview with the PPAT the participant will begin to plan their personal pathway through the Programme, working out how to access its resources and opportunities.

Each participant will have their own Role Consultant, with whom they work throughout the Programme. All the Role Consultants are experienced Senior Organisational Analysts from The Grubb Institute. The Role Consultant will begin by working with the participant on their lived experience in their own working role(s), leading on, as Module 2 moves into Module 3, to giving support on the Project and dissertation.

The Programme Progression Adviser/Tutor is available to support participants in making choices about their pathway through the Programme. This includes advising them on choices of Seminars, optional experiential conferences and how they pace the writing and submission of the papers for their portfolios.

All the activities of the Programme will be supported by guidance on relevant reading and similar resources. This includes enabling access to suitable libraries, including the Institute's own specialist library and UEL's Athens Account (electronic library) and similar resources. The University's student welfare services are available to assist those with disabilities such as dyslexia and dyspraxia.

A website space will be created for participants and Faculty members to enable continuing discussion and correspondence about experiences, thoughts and ideas arising from participation in the Programme.

Admission

A first degree or equivalents, and/or professional experience commensurate with that level of training are required. Applicants are expected to have had a minimum of six years experience in their professions. In addition they will be directly involved in the leadership, management, training or development of other professional workers or engaged in consultative work for specific organisations.

The nature of the Programme calls for a spirit of enquiry, reflected in the willingness of participants to examine their own experience and behaviour and consider, in an open-minded way, new ways of acting in their organisational roles. The Programme requires a commitment to personal development as a necessary condition for the transformation of the organisations for which they work.

In the case of applicants whose first language is not English, then IELTS 6.5 (with no skill level below 6.0) or equivalent is required. Qualifications will be checked for appropriate matriculation to UK Higher Education postgraduate programmes. The University of East London and Grubb Institute both actively promote and celebrate equality and diversity and positively welcome applicants regardless of race, gender, disability, sexuality, age, religion or social class. (The Grubb Institute's Equality and Diversity practice is in line with the policy of UEL, which can be accessed at www.uel.ac.uk/personnel/Equality Diversity_Policy.htm) Participants will be asked to complete an Application Form and will then have an interview with the Programme Director. Two references will be required to support the application.

Participants who apply to enter stages of the Programme may be admitted through normal Accreditation of Experiential Learning (AEL) or Accreditation of Certificated Learning (ACL) processes. Therefore such applicants must be able to demonstrate and evidence that they have achieved the required learning outcomes as listed in the modules for which they are seeking exemption.