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Employer Benefits

Benefits

This is a challenging and dynamic time for managers. Economic and social trends including globalisation, trade liberalisation, new technologies and consumer patterns continue to change the competitive environment. New public policies and the growing expectations of service users are similarly forcing public sector providers to modernise.

The Glasgow Caledonian MBA will help your managers to understand and manage these and other external drivers of change.  Amongst others, it provides the skills and tools to:

  • Align strategy with the external environment and negotiate barriers to policy implementation
  • Anticipate and respond to shifts in customer/client needs
  • Exploit technology for effective delivery of services
  • Appraise and utilise frameworks for business excellence
  • Manage the interdependency of public, private and voluntary organisations

To meet the challenge of learning to work in new and innovative ways, organisations must reform, speedily and thoroughly, their internal systems and methods of management. The change required is different from that demanded in the past. Whereas traditionally, managerial problem solving took place within a relatively fixed set of expectations and assumptions, today managers must become skilled in shifting those very frames of reference. Consequently our MBA highlights the ‘softer’ dimensions of organising and managing aimed at:

  • Challenging and changing traditional mindsets: oneself and others
  • Harnessing the talents of individuals and teams for innovation and creativity
  • Managing for continuous adaptation and transformational change

In sum, to modernise products and services organisations must work in more flexible and innovative ways.  To do so they must first break free from pervasive and deep-seated mental models. Therefore, the key employer benefit of the MBA is that it provides participants with the skills to analyse external change and develops their potential for new ways of thinking and managing.

Companies that have recently sponsored students on our MBA:

  • Anniesland College
  • Army Personnel Centre
  • Ayrshire & Arran Health Board
  • BAE Systems
  • BUPA
  • Defence Codification Agency
  • Enable
  • First Scotrail
  • Freescale Semiconductor
  • Gilmour & Dean Ltd
  • Glasgow City Council
  • Glasgow Housing Association
  • Greater Glasgow NHS Primary Care Trust
  • IBM UK Ltd
  • Kibble Education & Care Centre
  • Ministry of Defence
  • Nacco Materials Handling Ltd
  • North Lanarkshire Council
  • Pointer Ltd
  • Prudential UK
  • Quarriers
  • Renfrewshire Council
  • Rolls Royce
  • Royal Bank of Scotland
  • Scottish Assoc. Of Mental Health
  • Scottish Court Service
  • Scottish Enterprise
  • SportScotland
  • Strathclyde Fire Brigade
  • Strathclyde Police
  • Student Loans Company Limited
  • Support for Ordinary Living
  • The Glasgow Housing Association
  • The Salvation Army

Updated: 26/03/2007 | Site editor | Legal