Course Content
Year 1
Strategic Management – 20 credits
Topics you'll cover on this module include:
- the academic field of strategic management
- the strategic management decision process
- strategic analysis of the external environment, internal resources and competences
- business level strategy
- corporate level strategy
- international strategy
- generating and selecting strategic options
- methods of growth
- managing change and reviewing past strategies
Business Improvement and Creativity – 20 credits
Topics you'll cover on this module include:
- change management
- performance measurement
- operational improvement
- Lean and Six Sigma
- process management
- employee engagement
- embedding and sustaining change and improvement programmes
- creativity in terms of organisational climate and techniques
Critical Leadership: Theoretical and Practical Perspectives – 20 credits
Topics you'll cover on this module include:
- leader vs. leadership and the leader vs. manager debate
- traditional leadership theories, traits, functions, styles
- leadership and followership models
- implicit leadership and the romance of leadership
- negative leadership
- gender and intercultural leadership
- leadership competencies and leader selection
- training development and the assessment of leaders
Critical Thinking and Research Skills for Leadership and Management – 20 credits
Topics you'll cover on this module include:
- thinking and critical thinking
- the nature of research
- philosophical foundations of research – choice of perspective
- methodologies and methods
- accessing and reviewing literature as part of a student research project
- using appropriate sources, including the library, internet and search engines
- research planning and management
- ethics and awareness of the wider environment
- research design – producing a proposal
- data collection and analysis – qualitative and quantitative methods
- writing up research
Year 2
- In this year, you'll research and write your dissertation. This is worth 40 credits
