Management MSc

Compulsory

• Financial Resources Management

  This module critically examines the issues and challenges that confront managers responsible for financial management. Students discuss the concepts, topics, methodological approaches and tools relevant to the analysis of the financial standing of organisations. They develop an understanding of the implementation of financial strategies and policies and their operational implications. 

• Business Planning

  This module promotes an integrative understanding of the challenges and opportunities involved in business planning through practice. Students develop a business plan by integrating all components, such as market opportunity, competition, business models, and financing, into a unified whole. Using illustrative case studies, this module also examines business models’ underlying strategies and decision-making processes.

• Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management

  This module introduces students to entrepreneurship and small business management. Students develop a critical understanding of concepts and theoretical and practical issues regarding entrepreneurs, entrepreneurial opportunities and business start-ups. They discuss how to successfully manage and scale up small businesses and how to choose effective and sustainable growth strategies

• Strategic Management

  This module introduces students to the design and choice of strategies in organisations across industries and sectors. It enables students to appreciate the challenges that confront managers in complex, dynamic and increasingly uncertain conditions. Students develop skills in critical thinking, logical analysis, argument and judgement based on insights from case studies and cutting-edge research.

• Understanding Business and Management Research

  This module highlights the application of management theory and quantitative and qualitative methods in research to generate novel insights into the practice of management in diverse organisations and industries. Students learn how to collect and analyse data from different sources. They critically reflect on the practical and ethical implications of their analysis for the day-to-day operations of organisations. 

• Dissertation (Management MSc)

  This 60-credit module allows students to conduct a piece of research including the identification of the research enquiry, data collection and analysis and the presentation of the results. The dissertation module, accompanied by a tailored academic supervision process, brings together the knowledge and skills gained in the programme for the analysis of a specific business problem of the students’ choice. 

Optional

• Creativity, Entrepreneurship and Innovation
  This module aims to define creativity within the context of innovative and entrepreneurial firms. It seeks to analyse creativity at individual, group, organisational, urban and national levels, delineating its vital role in fostering innovation and entrepreneurship.
• International Marketing

  This module enhances critical understanding and the ability to assess the effectiveness of international marketing theory and practice. It highlights issues that drive markets worldwide. Students gain insights into challenges that a business faces when it needs to research markets and learn how to implement market strategies, techniques and methods across a range of internationally operating industries. 

• Organisational Behaviour

  This module equips students with the tools necessary to understand the dynamics of individual and group behaviour for the utilisation of human resources in organisations. It helps students understand and analyse individual needs, feelings and aspirations, develop skills needed to plan for the implementation of organisational change and identify and develop effective motivational and leadership skills. 

• Technology Management

  This module aims to enhance and demonstrate a critical and practical understanding of the issues associated with modern technology management and business development. It highlights the challenges associated with the adoption of potentially disruptive technologies in organisations and nurtures critical reflection on the current theory and practice of technology management.

• Digital Creativity and New Media Management

  This module defines creativity within the context of innovative and entrepreneurial firms. It seeks to analyse creativity at individual, group, organisational, urban and national levels, delineating its vital role in fostering innovation and entrepreneurship in dynamic environments.

• International Business Ethics and Corporate Governance

  This module focuses on business ethics, sustainability and corporate governance in internationally operating organisations. These areas are addressed from the perspective of the dual ‘business’ models of the shareholder and the stakeholder approaches. The broader societal impacts of business activities are discussed by using concepts from moral philosophy, CSR, sustainability and corporate governance. 

• Knowledge Management, Social Networks and Innovation

  This module explores the intersection of knowledge, social network technologies and innovation. It examines how organisations create, utilise and communicate knowledge in the global economy and the wider social and economic impact. Recent trends in information and communications technologies are highlighted. Students discuss how these trends may contribute to organisational innovation and create societal benefit. 

• Contemporary Brand Management

  This module nurtures a critical understanding of current theory and practice of brand management drawing on academic theories, frameworks and models within a business context. Students are given opportunities to discuss contemporary issues and pertinent practical challenges in the field with a view to developing critical skills of evaluation and appraisal.