Coaching in Organisations MGT5375

  • Academic Session: 2024-25
  • School: Adam Smith Business School
  • Credits: 10
  • Level: Level 5 (SCQF level 11)
  • Typically Offered: Semester 2
  • Available to Visiting Students: No
  • Collaborative Online International Learning: No

Short Description

Over recent years, coaching has become one of the most popular human resource development interventions within organisations. This course explores how the use of coaching at work evolved and the different ways in which coaching can today be used effectively in the workplace to develop personal and professional capabilities / competencies, with individuals and teams. It also evaluates coaching's potential for underpinning strategic and cultural change across organisations. This course introduces different coaching models and encourages students to critically evaluate them. It helps students to develop the core skills, behaviours and mind-set upon which coaching depends, working with other students to practise these skills. The course will be a compelling blend of taught input, directed reading and experiential practice sessions (both as coach and as person being coached).

Timetable

The course is timetabled to run in Semester 2 with 18 formal contact hours delivered face to face.

6 x 3 hour in-person classes over 3 weeks (March)

Requirements of Entry

None

Excluded Courses

None

Co-requisites

None

Assessment

Intended Learning Outcomes

Course Aims

The course aims to:

■ Develop students' knowledge and understandings of coaching as a means of individual, professional and organisational development.

■ Familiarise students with the different ways in which coaching can be implemented and used in the workplace.

■ Build students' understanding of the potential of coaching for supporting strategic and organisational change. 

■ Encourage students to critically evaluate and strategically select different coaching approaches and strategies for using coaching according to analysis of organisational and individual needs.

■ Sensitise students to the core skills behaviours and mindsets underpinning the practice of coaching.

■ Provide structured practice to help students develop appropriate coaching skills.

Intended Learning Outcomes of Course

By the end of the programme students will be able to:

1. Critically analyse what coaching is and what distinguishes coaching from other interventions e.g. mentoring, training or counselling.

2. Critically reflect on the use of different coaching models used and the skills required in an organisational context.

3. Critically evaluate coaching as an HR/OD intervention and the conditions and practices that need to be in place to support strategic outcomes.

4. Critically evaluate coaching interventions within organisational settings.

Minimum Requirement for Award of Credits

Students must submit at least 75% by weight of the components (including examinations) of the course's summative assessment.