Organisational Studies

Why study with us?

Organisational Studies encompasses the study areas of Organisational Behaviour and Organisational Theory. Our Organisational Studies courses are designed in consultation with industry professionals, and informed by leading researchers, ensuring graduates are well equipped to meet emerging and global management challenges. This connection with industry professionals and informed researchers provides the opportunity for lecturers in organisational studies to sustain a problem-based teaching and learning environment.

Members of the Organisational Studies group actively participate in a wide range of research projects through the Research Institute for Organisational and Institutional Performance.

Organisational Studies provides opportunities for you to:

• Develop knowledge and skills that will let you become a professional capable of working in a global context
• Work closely with others students from a broad range of professional, industrial and national backgrounds
• Experience teaching that is delivered by internationally recognized and awarded academics and informed by top-tier research.

Career opportunities

Organisational Studies can help students in any career or business, particularly management and consulting roles in organisations of all sizes and types. Students of organisational studies develop a broad range of managerial competencies including skills in:

• Analysing the appropriateness of organisational structures
• Motivating employees
• Assessing the adequacy of leadership for a particular mission
• Defining changes needed to anticipate or meet environmental demands.

Academic staff in Organisational Studies