Portfolio of Electives

You will be required to select one option module in Semester B of Year 2. The MBA offers a choice of six option modules encompassing both traditional business functional areas and more contemporary management issues, for you to select from. In any given year, the number of options offered and run will be subjected to minimum student numbers.

Business Innovation and Enterprise

The themes of study include new ventures, innovation, business development and business growth allowing the student to focus on relevant paths of enquiry. These are contextualised within business sectors providing each student an opportunity to explore in detail social, private and public applications for enterprise.

Strategic Information Systems and Innovation

In the modern milieu, information systems (IS), and the closely related application of information and communications technologies (ICTs), are drivers of change. This module introduces the student to the applications, concepts and processes of using IS/ICTs to transform organisations in order to maximise stakeholder value.

Managing Customer Relationships: A Strategic Perspective

The module takes a contingency approach in addressing the tasks and challenges associated with managing a customer led organisation within an increasingly dynamic and complex digitized external environment.

People Management for Organisational Effectiveness

This module examines current strategic issues and developments in HRM including the links between HRM and organisational strategic processes; HRD strategy and strategic business objectives; line managers in HRM and HRD and performance management systems.

Operations, Risks and Strategic Management in the Banking Sector

This module will analyse the changing banking markets and cover key aspects of management including how the principles of strategic management link to the banking industry, diversification, merger and acquisition and e-business strategies.

Modernising Public Services

The main aim of the module is to explore key issues surrounding modernising public services in relation to change management processes in various organisations of the public sector. The module will introduce students to theoretical and historical perspectives of public management and administration; approaches to public sector reform in the UK with some comparative international perspectives; and contemporary developments in modernising public services.

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