MSc Management

This module is designed to develop your self-awareness as a leader and team player, helping you understand your strengths and weaknesses. You'll gain and improve essential management and leadership skills, while also cultivating reflexivity and an enterprising mindset to better handle uncertainty. The module aims to boost your confidence and ability to effectively articulate your skills for career development and employment, and to enhance your interpersonal communication. We'll explore diverse leadership perspectives on key topics like ethics, EDI, sustainability, technology, and change, equipping you to manage issues of corporate social responsibility and societal wellbeing. Finally, you'll learn to analyse and respond to the impact of environmental forces and social issues on organisations.

This module provides you with a critical understanding of the contribution that learning and development can make to individuals and organisations. You'll develop the practical skills needed to design and implement leading edge learning and development programmes. You'll also gain the critical understanding required to develop a coaching programme in the workplace and to participate in a coaching style of management.

Management is the activity of getting things done with the aid of people and other resources. Working with human resources is a key element of this. And on this module, you'll develop a deep understanding of the practical art of managing change based on a theoretical understanding of organisational behaviour and leadership. Using theoretical concepts, this module enables you to build a comprehensive understanding of the emergent properties of organisations such as culture, politics and leadership. You'll also build practical skills to address the issues facing leaders and managers in contemporary, typically international, organisations.

You will explore the variety of organisational, social, and environmental contexts in which projects operate. You will examine sustainable project management from the perspectives of contemporary organisational practice, stakeholder engagement, and ESG (economic, social, environmental, and governance) considerations.

You will then critically evaluate principles, frameworks, and standards for sustainable project management, and assess how sustainability factors are embedded throughout project lifecycles. As projects drive change, you will learn the strategies to secure stakeholder support and manage change effectively. You will also develop the ability to apply

• sustainability performance metrics
• standards
• and best practices,

helping prepare you to lead responsible and sustainable change in diverse sectors.

This module examines a range of international organisations and their different purposes. Your studies will focus on multinational companies, small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), non-governmental organisations (NGOs), the European Union and other similar organisations such as the UN. These institutions influence and relate to the operations of global businesses. You will also explore the political, economic and social environments in which international organisations function and the challenges they face. Leading business executives and subject experts will be invited to speak to you.

This module prepares you for completing high quality, systematic business and management research, and equips you to be successful in your Final Research Project. You will learn how to undertake effective research, drawing upon a range of secondary and primary data sources, and will be introduced to a range of tools required for research including methodological issues, data collection techniques and study skills.

You will develop a systematic and critical understanding of knowledge across core functional areas of Business and Management by designing, executing, and evaluating a substantial, practice-based integrated business research project.

You will receive comprehensive training in research and consultancy skills to prepare for this project. Throughout this process you will get continuous support from our tutors, and you will demonstrate a wide range of essential skills including critical analysis, project planning, problem-solving, and both written and oral communication. We ensure that our graduates are fully equipped to tackle real-world Business and Management problems with confidence and professionalism.

This non-credit-bearing module focuses on developing the academic writing and reading skills required when undertaking postgraduate level study.

It will help you develop your understanding of key features of successful academic writing, including how to integrate sources to support arguments, how to demonstrate critical thinking and how to address assessment tasks effectively. Critical reading and research skills are also developed as well as Critical AI Literacy. It is particularly suitable for postgraduate students who have had little or no previous Academic English training or study experience in a UK university.

This module will provide you with a critical understanding of how contemporary organisations elicit employee engagement and performance, and the challenges associated with doing so. You'll engage with theoretical perspectives on individual and collective employment relationships as the basis for managing employees – drawing on the key themes of authority, power, and control - and how the levers at management’s disposal, notably, those associated with reward and performance management can be deployed to best effect. You'll also explores dysfunction and conflict in the employment relationship from both theoretical and practical standpoints, and the role of the HR professional in managing the relationship between stakeholders.

In this module, you’ll understand how to make decisions for businesses under uncertainty and risky conditions. You’ll critically evaluate and apply decision science frameworks while utilising knowledge acquired from the Business Intelligence module. You’ll also develop a critical understanding of how data can be used to simulate situations, which informs management decision making in a range of functions as well as how it creates strategic value. Throughout this module, you’ll be encouraged to engage with contemporary and ethical issues surrounding responsible decision making practices and you’ll engage with the organisational and wider environmental context in which these decisions are made.

The purpose of this intensive experiential learning module is to enable students to gain project and consultancy experience working in cross-cultural teams. Students can work on a real problem within a client organisation. A series of workshops are held on consultancy and projects, building on previous learning in your studies. In the module students will apply their understanding of management in relation to specific organisational problems. By participating in this module, students will develop their practical problem-solving skills as well as communication and ability to work in cross-cultural teams.

You'll focus on developing marketing strategies in a sustainable global world. While learning how to select and apply a range of marketing theories, concepts and approaches in order to inform the decision-making processes involved in developing marketing strategies in a global context.

This module also embraces relevant UN Sustainable Development Goals and their relevance for responsible marketing practitioners. The main aim of this module is to ensure that you'll understand and appreciate the importance of ethical, sustainable, social, cultural and environmental issues in the global marketplace and the profound impact these factors have on marketing practices in a global context.

If you decide to take the sandwich mode your year of full-time taught study will be followed by one year of full-time, supervised work experience. The time on supervised work experience is paid and spent with a suitable international hospitality and tourism employer. You carry out an assessed project for the company as part of your academic studies on the placement. You'll expand your enterprise skills in the context of the workplace. The focus will be on building your intrapreneurial mindsets during your placement, helping you to develop the curiosity, creativity, vision and resilience to be successful in a variety of organisations. The placement will enable you to drive innovation in one or more of the following areas: ethical business behaviour, inclusivity, responsible management, sustainability, digitalisation and internationalisation. Drawing on your research skills you'll propose evidence based innovative solutions to your placement organisations’ challenges.