Postgraduate Module Descriptor

POLM882DA: Stakeholders and Complex Systems

This module descriptor refers to the 2021/2 academic year.

Module Aims

This module will help apprentices meet a range of skills (S1, S5, S6, S7, S8), knowledges (K1, K2, K3) and behaviours (B3, B8, B9) implicit in the IATE Systems Thinking Practitioner standard.

Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs)

This module's assessment will evaluate your achievement of the ILOs listed here - you will see reference to these ILO numbers in the details of the assessment for this module.
On successfully completing the programme you will be able to:
Module-Specific Skills1. Articulate and critically evaluate the position and role of stakeholders and people in the evolution of the ‘soft systems school’ of systems thought
2. Generate stakeholder interest and influence system maps for building effective, ethical, and critically considered intervention regimes.
3. Lead stakeholder interventions under complexity and uncertainty
4. Account for the benefits, limitations and contexts for qualitative and quantitative data gathering for building stakeholder systems maps and interventions
5. Account for the benefits, limitations and contexts of different stakeholder engagement and change implementation strategies
Discipline-Specific Skills6. Engender new and developed stakeholder engagement and collaboration skills for inter and cross disciplinary / organisational problem solving
7. Integrate systems knowledges, laws, and concepts in the development of appropriate stakeholder intervention regime
8. Deliver engagements that influence and enthuse stakeholders through complex systems environments
Personal and Key Skills9. Demonstrate self-reflective empathy and emotional intelligence for influencing, leading, and educating.