Master of Business Administration (MBA)   

The module equips students with a range of skills and knowledge essential to thinking and acting effectively as an inclusive leader. Students will review concepts and cases enabling the critical evaluation of organisational and team design for high performance.

Increasingly, change and leadership go hand in hand in organisations and leaders constantly need to drive change as part of their role.

The module will examine the nature and some of the inherent challenges of organisational change. Students will critically analyse what it means to be a change agent and they will gain the knowledge and understanding needed to design, initiate and lead change in diverse organisational settings.

This module will enable students to build skills and knowledge in problem solving and research that will support their studies throughout the programme and provide the essential foundation for their final project.

In addition to developing problem solving skills students will develop a proposal for their final project that will completed during the final term of their course.

A business adds value through its operations, which today are typically highly dependent on the use of digital technology to link together organisations within the value network, connect with customers, improve delivery, personalise products and services, and match demand and supply.

It is vital that managers and leaders understand both how business operations are designed, managed and improved, and the relationship between new product/service development and operations.

This module aims to provide practical methods and approaches to enable business managers and entrepreneurs to understand and use financial information to make effective business decisions.

The financial decision-making process demands the understanding of key financial management issues, performance indicators and methodologies to critically analysing accounting and financial information.

Strong financial literacy is essential in business.

This module focuses on the strategic skills and knowledge needed by executives, managers, intrapreneurs and entrepreneurs and aims to:

• Develop the understanding and skills in strategy development and in execution
  provide the knowledge and skills to scan, analyse and interpret firm business environment
• Develop skills in understanding trends in the business environment and to construct scenarios that can be used to test strategy
• Develop the ability to manage resources and capabilities and to critically evaluate their importance as sources of sustainable competitive advantage but also as potential sources of disadvantage when disruptive innovation occurs
• Take strategic decisions based on a deep understanding of their business and the market or markets they serve
• Foster and exploit innovation through the development of new products and services
• Critical awareness of the importance of environmental and social responsibility, ethical decision making and the need for effective corporate governance.

Marketing is important for all organisations and is concerned with retaining customers and delivering value to stakeholders, that is, to everyone who is affected by a transaction. It directs organisations into new markets and opportunities while maintaining and developing existing customers.

This module is intended to help develop knowledge concerning the nature and character of marketing as well as sales in an international context, capitalising on current and emerging technologies.

The interdependence of economies and increasingly globalised marketing reflects the trend of organisations designing, distributing and selling products and services in many markets around the world.

This module provides students with the opportunity to work on specific management and business problems that organisations are facing,utilising their problem-solving skills and competences of handling and managing business challenges.

Starting from problem identification and concluding with solution related recommendations, thus encouraging research into real world business and management issues impacting organisations.