Management

Taught modules

Compulsory modules

• Developing Skills for Leadership and Employability

  This module will encourage you to develop a strong sense of self-awareness of your own strengths and weaknesses as effective leaders and team players. It will help you to develop and improve a range of definable skills which are pivotal to successful management practice and to effective leadership in particular. You’ll develop essential skills such as the confidence and ability to articulate your skills and attributes that are required for professional development, lifelong learning and employment. This module will also provide you with an opportunity to explore different leadership perspectives on ethics, EDI, sustainability, technology and change.

• Learning, Development and Coaching

  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.

• Organisational Behaviour, Leadership and Change

  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; 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.

• Project Management

  This module will define the term ‘project’, and will seek to analyse the many different environments in which projects take place. You’ll assess the approaches that may be taken towards the management of projects, and you’ll practise a range of techniques used by professional project managers to plan, control and deliver projects successfully. As projects drive change, an important element of project management is ensuring the support of stakeholders so that the change can be effectively managed, all of which you’ll explore in depth throughout this module.

• Managing International Organisations

  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.

• Research Methods

  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.

Optional modules

• Academic English for Postgraduate Studies

  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.

• Academic English for Postgraduate Research

  On this non credit bearing module, you'll develop the academic writing knowledge and skills required when undertaking postgraduate level research in a business context.

  You'll focus on research writing skills relevant to a range of texts, particularly on:

  • research articles
  • business research reports
  • case studies
  • critical reviews
  • and dissertations.

  This will help build your anaysis skills and further your ability to write for research at a postgraduate level.

  This module is suitable if you have limited research experience in a United Knigdom Higher Education Institution.

• Employee Engagement, Performance and Reward

  This module provides a critical understanding of how contemporary organisations can elicit employee engagement and performance, and the challenges associated with doing so. It presents theoretical perspectives on individual and collective employment relationships. You’ll develop an understanding of the challenges of managing employees, by drawing on key themes of authority, power, and control and reward and performance management. You’ll also explore 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.

• Data Driven Decision Marketing

  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. 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.

• Group Consultancy Project

  The purpose of this intensive experiential learning module is to help you gain project and consultancy experience working in cross-cultural teams. 

  You can work on a real problem within a client organisation.  A series of workshops are held on consultancy and projects, building on your previous learning in your studies. You'll apply your understanding of management in relation to specific organisational problems.  

  You'll develop practical problem-solving skills as well as communication and the ability to work in cross-cultural teams.

• Sustainable Global Marketing

  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.