Compulsory modules
Organizations and People: This module examines key issues arising from contemporary research in organizational behavior (OB) and human resource management (HRM). It provides an integrated analysis of management, organizations, and people, developing the conceptual, strategic, and practical skills necessary for managers in complex, global organizational contexts. Specific topics include:
The nature of organizations
Organization structures: strategy, design and function, job design
Organization cultures: values, ethics, norms of behavior
Theories and models of management: classical and contemporary
Individual differences: perception, learning, motivation, equality, and diversity
Groups and teams in the organization
Managing relationships: power, conflict, communication, engagement
Managers as leaders, people developers, coaches
Managing job satisfaction and performance
International Strategic Management: This module analyses strategic decision-making within the business. You will develop a critical understanding of the strategic processes of business management, the interconnections with the functional domains of marketing, human resource management, corporate finance, and the management of knowledge systems. Specific topics include:
Concepts of strategic management applicable to business
Prescriptive and emergent strategies
Strategy implementation through capacity building and resource allocation
Managing, monitoring, and reviewing strategic change
Organizational designs for strategic advantage
Human resources strategy, marketing, and corporate financial strategy
Organizational learning and knowledge management
Management Research: This module analyses the philosophical basis for research in the management sciences, and examines a number of key methodological issues and approaches. Research designs for both quantitative and qualitative research methodologies are developed, including interviews, case studies, focus groups, surveys, and experiments. Specific topics include:
Research methodologies and philosophy: positivism and interpretivism
Qualitative research methods and the search for meaning
Selecting a research strategy and design
Data gathering, documentary records, triangulation, and mixed methods
Content analysis, conversation analysis, discourse analysis, grounded theory
Quantitative research design and methodologies
Univariate and multivariate analysis, factor, cluster, and discriminant analysis
Business Planning for the Green Economy: This module explores the process of establishing a venture from idea generation to the completion of a business plan which incorporates environmental planning and management. It takes the student through the actual process of developing a business plan and its different components, the market, and sustainability. Specific topics include:
Entrepreneurship
The entrepreneurial role in relation to the initiation and development of a sustainable business
Key environmental factors of business development
The differences between the entrepreneur and the environmental manager, and the problems faced by small growth firms in sustainable growth.
The importance and complexity of entrepreneurship and environmentalism within a large firm environment
Finance for Managers: This module is designed for those who aim to achieve a basic understanding of financial management and control, and who require an understanding of finance in order to manage an organization effectively. Financial planning and control are central themes, as well as the appraisal techniques of investment projects. Specific topics include:
Principles underlying the preparation of accounting information
Recording business transactions
Preparation and analysis of financial statements
Preparation of budgets, financial planning, and control
Costing methods, uses, and interpretation of cost data
Investment appraisal techniques
Strategic Environmental Management: This module is designed to provide an understanding of the principles of sustainable development, environmental legislation, environmental auditing and assessment, and green technological development. Specific topics include:
Sustainable development
Environmental legislation
Environmental auditing
Environmental assessment
Corporate social responsibility and socially responsible investment
Life cycle analysis
Green Technology: This module reviews the environmental consequences of economic activities, including energy generation, waste management, food and water supply, and consumer goods. It then goes on to consider recent policy initiatives and drivers and examines key green technologies. Specific topics include:
Development and deployment of green technologies
Environment impacts of energy generation
Green technology policies and initiatives
Green technologies - commerce, ideas, and concepts
Geographical Information Systems (GIS) for green technologies