BE951 Coursework One – Topics Accounting & Management
Management
1. Theme: Organising in the Cultural Sector
· Sponsorship
· Artistic vision
· Management and cultural policies
2. Theme: Brand Management and Communication
· Brand communication
· Global brands
· City and nation Branding
· Employee branding
3. Theme: Work in the Experience Economy
· Emotional labour
· Event Managers
· Service experiences
· Aesthetic labour
4. Theme: Critical perspectives on leadership development.
· Measuring Leadership
· Policies/practices of leadership development
· Leadership development industry.
5. Theme: Technology and everyday practice
· Informal work practices and ICT
· Mobile computing and/in the knowledge economy.
· Technology and organizational learning
6. Theme: Working and living
· Work gendered models and frameworks
· Work-life balance and early career employees.
· Workplace bullying
7. Theme: International comparisons of Human Resource Management (HRM)
· Organizational culture and country
· Sharia Law and HRM
· Promotion and career development
8. Theme: Gender in Management
· Home/work boundaries
· Gender stereotyping
· Young working women
9. Theme: Discrimination at work
· Racism
· Age discrimination at work
· Human Rights in the workplace
· Sexuality and discrimination
· Disability, difference and embodiment
10. Theme: Technology at work
· Mergers and acquisition in high technology sectors
· New information/communications technologies
· Virtual learning
11. Theme: Historical Perspectives on Innovation
12. Theme: Power/knowledge and the Management of Expertise
· Change management and public sectors
· Post Bureaucracy
· Knowledge management and Health sectors
13. Theme: Space & Place in Organisations
· A spatial analysis of an organisation
· Place in 21st century organisations
· Architecture and Organization
· Intimate spaces and organisation
14. Theme: teams and organisations
· Dispersed/globalised organisations
· Reality or fiction
15. Theme: Alternative ways of considering organisational performance
· Aesthetic approaches
· Spiritual dimensions of organisation
· Alternate lenses
· Quantitative methods and reality
16. Theme Managerial reading preferences and managerial reading habits.
· Popular management literature
· Managers and ‘popular management literature’
17. Theme: Work, commitment and disenchantment.
· The ‘credit crunch’ and employment
· The ‘credit crunch’ and imminent graduates
· ‘Survivor syndrome’
18. Theme: Organizational narratives and organizational stories.
· Organizational deskilling and narratives
19. Theme: The management of climate change and carbon markets
· ‘Carbon neutral’ companies
· Climate change mitigation projects in the developing world
· Politics of climate change
· Alternatives to carbon markets
20. Theme: Ethical and green Marketing
· ‘Green marketing’
· Ethical marketing strategies
· Fairtrade products
· Green and ethical products
21. Theme: Management and organisation in Eastern European and other ‘transition’ and ‘developing’ countries
· Ideologies of transition and change
· Managerial identities
· Social movements and transition and developing countries
· North / South relations and multinational companies
22. Theme: Psychoanalysis of management and organisation
· Psychoanalytic readings and advertising and marketing
· Psychoanalytic perspectives and management
· Psychoanalytic critiques of the consumer society
· Fetishism and marketing
23. Theme: Business Strategy
· Strategic planning in SMEs
· The emergent model of strategy formulation
· What is ‘strategy’
24. Theme: Marketing
· Marketing philosophy and process
· Product life cycle
· Societal marketing approaches
25. Theme: Management (general)
· Standards and professional managers
· Motivation in the 21st century
· Change management 1989-2009
26. Theme: Cultural Labour & the Metropolis
· Cultural Spaces/the city
· Creative districts and policy
· Measuring cultural value
27. Theme: Class Conflict & Struggle
· Changes in class formation
· Precarious work relationships
· Workplace/union struggles
28. Theme: Imagination & Myth
· Collective Imagination
· Myth making
· Disinformation & propaganda
29. Theme: Aesthetics and Organising
· Using visual methods to understand organizations
· The role of the senses in the workplace
· The Aesthetic Economy
30. Theme: Political Economy of Organization
· Justification of organizations and organizational strategies in the public sphere
· Organizing under the conditions of Late Capitalism
· The Global Economic Crisis and its organizational implications
Accounting
1. Accounting Information:
· accounting representation and narrative
· reporting and voluntary disclosure
· accounting systems and micro-finance in rural/indigenous communities
· role in markets
2. Accounting profession:
· role in taxation, fraud, corruption
· image creation and management of
· ethical issues in
3. Audit and Auditors:
· audit and Corporate Social Responsibility
· auditors’ responsibility for fraud detection
· accounting and auditing standard setting
4. Business Ethics:
· ethics and CSR
· Stakeholder theory and ethics
· whistleblowing and accounting ethics
· ethics of taxation and tax-avoidance
5. Corporate Governance:
· Role of activist investors
· Role of non-executive directors
· CG and corporate accountability
· accounting perspectives on CG
· audit and CG
· executive remuneration and CG
6. Developing countries:
· corporate governance in
· accounting systems in
· IFRSs and developing countries
· CSR in
7. Enterprise Resource Planning Systems
8. Foreign aid:
· micro-finance
· globalization and
· aid-agencies and
· public sector and management control
9. International Financial Reporting Standards:
· development of standard setting
· effects of standards and standard setters
10. Islamic accounting, audit and corporate governance
11. Management Accounting:
· accounting and management in arts and culture
· management information systems and the arts
· Enterprise Resource Planning Systems
· organisational change in voluntary sector organizations
· management accounting and control systems: adoption, design, implementation, and use
12. Public Sector:
· public sector accounting
· reform and privatization
· public sector in developing countries
· organisational change in
· the New Public Management and management accounting
· Performance Measurement Frameworks in the public or private sector
13. The Financial Crisis:
· role of audit in
· corporate governance and
· financial reporting and