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M.Sc. Management

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Faculty: Graduate School

Department: Graduate School

PROGRAMME STRUCTURE

COURSES KEY CONTENTS
Accounting and Finance
  • Organization, corporate, agency theory and financial reporting
  • The preparation of financial statements
  • Accounting standards
  • How to read, interpret and analyse financial statements
  • How to apply accounting knowledge in decision making
  • Time value of money
  • Financial instruments and valuation
  • Investment decisions
  • Risk and return
  • Capital structure and the social cost of capital
  • Capital Market and Efficient Market Hypothesis
  • Current topics on accounting and finance research
Marketing and Services Management Strategic Marketing Theory in relation to both Physical Goods and Services

  • The marketing environment and market demand and forecasting
  • Branding as a strategic tool

Relationship Marketing/Management

  • Measurement, improvement and management of Service Quality
  • Relationship Marketing as a general philosophy
  • Service relationships and brands

Future Direction for Marketing

  • Experiential theory and co-creation of value through services dominant logic theory
  • The role of new communications media
  • Sustainability and the impact of CSR on Marketing
Operations and Information Management
  • Strategic operations and information management in a global environment
  • Principles of quality, environmental and service quality management
  • Understanding, measuring, reducing and preventing quality costs.
  • Forecasting demand and Queuing theory
  • Capacity and inventory management
  • Planning & control systems and methodologies: (MRP, Just In Time ,Lean/ Agile)
  • Make/Buy/Outsourcing /Off-shoring, Shared services
  • Free, Libre and Open Source Software
  • Sociotechnical approaches to information management
  • Systems integration strategies
  • The global context of information systems
  • Current issues in information technology
 Strategic International Business Management
  • The roles firms wish to have in the global marketplace
  • Environmental scanning to assess country attractiveness
  • Demographic and social trends to assess country attractiveness
  • The nature of strategy; value propositions and positioning theories of strategy
  • The strategic external environment of the firm – strategic groups and industry analysis
  • The strategic internal environment of the firm- resources and capabilities as the source of competitive advantage and economic value
  • Strategic options for international market entry – exporting, franchising, strategic alliances, joint ventures, wholly-owned subsidiaries
  • The “thinking performer” and motivation – the nature of leadership and management; addressing and managing the challenges in being reflective and thinking strategically; addressing and managing the constraints that are encountered in striving to achieve a high standard of performance
  • Leadership in a global context and managing change – exercising leadership and applying change management practices  to enable strategic objectives to be achieved in a global context
  • Performance management and teamwork – conventional and alternative techniques for managing performance and effective teamwork
  • Managing ethnicity, diversity and difference – new forms of organizing globally; strategies for cross-cultural management

Dissertation (Business Innovation Project)

The syllabus will provide a broad, integrated and highly integrated programme of study, designed to facilitate self management of the research project. Subjects include:

  • Research approaches design and methodology
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Corporate Social Responsibility
  • Business contexts –  large and small organisation perspectives
  • External and internal factors and their effects on the behaviour, management and sustainability of organisations
  • Internal factors, functions and processes, structures and governance, operations and management
  • Self reflection and criticality in the research process
  • Developing skills for reflective, collaborative and adaptive learning

Students will have lectures on

  • Selecting suitable research topics
  • Literature searching – what constitutes a literature search
  • Methods used to collect and analyse primary data
  • Methods used to collect and analyse secondary data
  • Analysing and presenting research findings

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