The learning and teaching structure for our Professional MBA courses is designed to ensure that all students are able to respond, understand and apply theoretical approaches and frameworks to real-world situations.
The series of modules as listed below (available to students on any of our professional MBA courses) enable you to develop a broad understanding of key themes that senior management of any organisation are required to understand and manage.
People and Organisations
This module investigates the ways in which the development of an organisation is driven through its own people. Relevant theoretical principles and models of human resource management, organisational behaviour and leadership are considered. Specific topics include recruitment and selection, employee motivation and remuneration, organisational culture and managing change, and diversity in employment. There is an emphasis on applications using practical examples and case studies.
Marketing Management Strategy
This module deals with identifying, entering and developing markets and provides a thorough grounding in the theories, concepts and techniques of marketing, by examining strategic marketing concepts and models. The module evaluates the role of marketing in contemporary organisational environments. A general management approach is used, identifying relationships and market orientation as key premises for business and marketing management.
International Business Economics
This module examines microeconomics and macroeconomics principles, concepts and methods of analysis. The module analyses the microeconomic behaviour of individuals, households, firms, and their interactions. The module also covers the macroeconomic behaviour of economic aggregates, including gross domestic product, consumption, investment, inflation, unemployment and the balance of payments. There is emphasis on role of government policy and regulation at the microeconomic and macroeconomic levels.
Corporate Governance & Sustainability
This module introduces key concepts, theories, research and practices of corporate governance within an increasingly global context. Contemporary corporate governance codes, disclosure requirements, risk management and ethical systems are examined, with emphasis on the holistic nature of such systems and processes. The module explores auditing and accounting policy issues, with reference to international convergence in professional standards and regulatory responses to current issues. Particular attention is paid to issues of business ethics and sustainability.
Financial Management and Decision Making
This module develops a practical grasp of financial and management accounting, financial analysis and financial decision-making, relevant to the aspiring general manager. Topics include the preparation and interpretation of the principal financial statements; accounting requirements and practices for the internal planning, monitoring, management and control of a business; and business finance, including sources of finance, financial management, and stock-market analysis of performance.
International Strategy and Operations
This module examines international strategy and operations management, including the international supply chain, an increasingly important aspect of business opportunities worldwide. The module examines techniques required for the design, operation and control of business processes and consulting, including methods for reducing supply chain risk. The module emphasises the importance of customer/ supplier relationships, as well as the risks associated with supply chain management
Project Management Tools and Techniques
Through the process of examining and reflecting on the processes of the planning, organisation, and managing of engineering projects, the module aims to critically analyse a range of project management models, engineering project planning tools and techniques and to apply these techniques to the design, planning, cost control and management of given project scenarios.
Leading and Managing Projects
Whilst Project Management typically focuses on the process of managing short-term projects to successful completion aligned to the triad of Time, Cost, and Quality Leading, Project Management explores in depth the more sophisticated and softer elements of successful Programme Management and the impact of strategy and leadership on the delivery of successful projects and programmes.
Global Supply Chain Management
The aim of this module is to identify the key drivers and issues that are driving globalisation of industries and markets and, to further explore the main activities, structures and management of global and international logistics systems and supply networks.
Green Logistics and Supply Chain Management
This module critically examines various Supply Chain & Logistics strategies, systems and technologies used in the development of supply chain systems and, through the application of systematic design strategies; plan, design and develop suitable and effective supply chain and logistics configurations for given scenarios.
Environmental Economics
This module provides an analysis of how economic theory may be used by governments, NGOs and the business sector to help protect and enhance our natural environment. Basic concepts in economic theory are introduced, so that understanding is developed of how markets are supposed to achieve economically efficient allocations and why, when they fail to do so, environmental degradation often results. The module then explores how governments, NGOs and businesses might intervene to address environmental issues, and evaluates the effectiveness of a range of policy instruments including command-and-control instruments and incentive-based instruments. It also explores why economists attach importance to the monetary and non-monetary valuation of environmental goods and services, providing a critique of these techniques. We then explore how such values might be incorporated into the design and evaluation of environmental policies, as well as macro-economic indicators such as Green GDP measures. The above theories are demonstrated in practice through a series of contemporary environmental policy case studies.
Global Marketing
This module examines the identification, entry into, and development of international/global markets. The module provides a thorough understanding of the theories, concepts and techniques of global and international marketing, including motives for international expansion, market selection and entry, management of communications and customer relations in international markets, and international branding.
Quality Engineering and Management
Through examining and reflecting on the concept of quality systems and quality management, this module aims to critically analyse a range of QA and QE systems and models as well as quality planning tools and techniques and contemporary quality improvement techniques and, will apply these techniques to the design, planning, control and management of given production systems.
Ethics, Sustainability & Corporate Responsibility in Organisations
This module is designed to develop and augment the knowledge and understanding of management through ethics and corporate responsibility. It will consist of a series of lectures/workshops that focus on both ethics and corporate responsibility, combining theoretical explanation and the use of contemporary case studies to which theory can be applied to practical examples.
