Course description
Programme highlights
-Work towards the internationally-recognised MBA
-New or recent graduate? You can fast track your way through business and management theory and practice
-Shape your career with our flexible programme
-Select options to suit your career
This is a conversion course for graduates of any discipline, which prepares you for the world of business. No prior work experience is required. The first half of the course introduces you to all the key business functional areas, after which you develop the areas of interest for your future career by taking relevant electives and a project of your choice.
The typical class size is 50, with students coming from 12-15 countries, so the cohort is very cosmopolitan.
Further study, research and employment opportunities
The average annual starting salary for an MBM graduate last year was £26,000. Students are working all over the world, from family owned businesses to the biggest multinationals. Some examples are: Kraft Foods, IBM, Government of Bermuda, Philips, National Health Service (UK), Jet Airways (India), WS Atkins (Engineers), PriceWaterhouse Coopers, Nike (South America).
We offer a one-to-one careers support service to all students from experienced careers advisors.
General programme structure
Designed specifically for those new or recent graduates who have little or no work experience, our programme goes beyond just instilling in you a thorough grounding in vital business processes and management practices, and the contexts in which they operate. It will challenge you to explore your self-awareness, your value system and your motivations. You will sharpen your critical thinking skills and establish your own individual innovative style and creative approach so when you address your final successful career choice, you will be a confident, resourceful and adaptable manager.
Building on the programme’s core of strategic level business and management principles, we will introduce you to theories and practices that will deepen your understanding of relevant disciplines and functions that operate in contemporary organisations.
You can opt to choose two specialisms from a range to pursue that includes finance, operations and logistics, international business, marketing, tourism and hospitality, and operations and international supply chains. You will also focus on a subject to study in substantial depth for your final practical project. If you choose all your options and project topic from the same subject area, you will be awarded a specialist MSc in Business Management. Please note that the specialisms can only be studied on the September start.
Detailed programme structure
-Examine different business contexts and their constraints
-Delve into the minutiae of accounting and finance
-Develop your analytical skills to aid management decision-making
-Evaluate organisational management techniques to promote best practice
-Scrutinise marketing management processes and measure performance
-Investigate operations and plan resources
-Determine and strategically develop new and existing enterprises
-Produce a final project
Business context
Contextual issues as economic factors; legal and regulatory constraints; environmental and social trends; cultural and ethical attitudes, and their varying impacts on organisations.
Accounting and finance
Accounting concepts for the provision of information for stakeholders and management decisions; interpretation of accounting statements; sources of finance and financial management.
Analysis and management of information
Information for decision making; use of communications and information technology in organisations; information systems and systems design; implications of and for e-business. Sources and uses of data; statistical data analysis techniques; applications to management decision problems; business research methods. Please note that capability in the basic skills of numeracy and computing will be assumed although refresher classes will be available.
Management in organisations
Organisational behaviour; management and motivation of people in organisations; personnel management processes including recruitment, appraisal, staff development, grievances and discipline, employee representation.
Marketing management
The marketing concept; the influence of environmental factors on market behaviour; marketing information; marketing mix; marketing planning.
Operations
Operational management of organisations in service and non-service sectors: performance measurements; quality management; capacity management; resource planning; project management; operations strategy.
Strategic development of enterprises
Meaning of enterprise; entrepreneurial behaviour; conditions for enterprise culture. Economic factors and their effect on enterprises; economics of innovation and risk taking; government policy towards enterprise and innovation. Nature and purpose of strategic management in enterprises; analytic frameworks/techniques; development of enterprising strategies.
Electives
Choice of four from a range of around 15. The number of specialisms available will depend on demand.
Project
Business research methods leading to a practical project with a 12,000 word repor
