Modules

Strategic and Policy Processes

The module evaluates various processes using appropriate frameworks to evaluate critically how managers undertake internal and external analyses to develop informed decisions in public, private and voluntary sector environments.

The Reflective People Manager

The aim of this module is to critique and develop the concepts and skills associated with managing yourself and others within the workplace. It provides a conceptual understanding of contemporary issues facing those involved in people management and looks at the skills required to successfully manage people.

Managing Performance for Business Excellence

The module develops an understanding of the external and internal factors driving organisational performance across the public, private and voluntary sectors. It pays particular attention to the challenge of balancing efficiency, effectiveness and equity/societal outcomes.

Management Techniques & Theories

This module examines the theories underpinning management techniques and forces students to question the idea, assumptions and findings associated with these theories and techniques.

Implementation Challenges in Business and Public Management

The module examines the complexities of managing and implementing strategy and policy, including the leadership of change in public, private and voluntary sector. It will evaluate current approaches to management, policy and delivery in the business and public sectors.

Leading Change: Managing For Creativity

This module aims to challenge the students’ conceptions of change and to develop a deep appreciation of its significance and complexity. This involves closely examining change in its various forms, including the role played by the
individual. This process will consider how creativity can lead to transformational change.

Research Perspectives and Methods

From practical qualitative research techniques to statistical analysis and from theories of knowledge to concepts of research design, the essentials of undertaking a research project are reviewed in a concise manner, enabling students to evaluate management research and to plan and implement their own programme of research.

International business: Institutions, Policy and Management

This module develops a critical overview of globalisation. It considers aspects of internationalisation and the implications of managing business organisations in an increasingly global environment.

International Management Project

This report will explore in a multicultural context the programme’s core theme of understanding, responding to and leading change. The subject matter may include an examination of global interpretations and evaluations of research theories and their application in multi-cultural environments or an investigation of the steps multi-nationals and other organisations take to align strategies and management practices to different cultural settings.

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