MSc Strategic Management

The aims of this module are to develop a deeper awareness of career management and to facilitate your’ professional development by analysing personality types, coaching styles and career behaviours. The module will enable you to explore your motivations, behaviours and leadership development and asks you explore what it means to be a professional through a systematic consideration of your role in particular workplace settings. A series of personal diagnostics will act as reference points for your development, along with personal tutoring, coaching and career development workshops. You will develop an understanding of your authentic leadership, refine your ability to connect with others and acquire a global mind-set enabling you to work in culturally diverse environments.

This module will provide a broad, basic understanding of strategy and introduce contemporary issues associated with the formulation of strategies at different levels of the organisation. It introduces basic concepts, principles and major analytical approaches that are utilised in strategic formulation, building dynamic capabilities and managing innovation and entrepreneurship.

A brilliant strategy can put you on the competitive map, but only solid execution can keep you there. This module will help you to understand how managers deal with issues involved in strategic execution and management. In a competitive global environment, understanding strategic principles, tools for analysis and techniques for implementation are of great importance to managers, to assist them in enhancing firm performance.

This module has been designed to build on, and complement, the Strategic Management module and has been structured specifically to explore the global changes that are impacting on multi- and international organizations/corporations and their industries. Additionally, it examines how these changes, and the opportunities and threats which they create, also lure domestic enterprises into the international business arena. It focuses on how various types of enterprise are expanding and relying more on their international operations, and how they develop strategies and establish objectives to either internationalize their domestic operations or expand their current international business operations as part of their overall organisational strategy.

This module aims to equip you with the professional skills you will need as you develop your career and move into more senior leadership roles.

Through an experiential approach, you will develop critical skills in business including communication, self-management and self-direction. This module also provides an oversight and appreciation of the challenges of professional working. The module develops your academic study skills, your ability to critically review information and your referencing skills.

The development of a portfolio of academic and practical skills will underpin your study at postgraduate level, and support your journey through the programme and within your professional context.

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This module aims to provide a deep and systematic understanding of the theoretical and practical tools, along with professional and research skills necessary to understand, model and tackle the major risks that arise from the complexity of business environments which demand strategic decision-making.

The growth of human capital has been identified as one of the key drivers of performance at an individual, organisational and a national level. This module is designed to assist you in understanding the strategic deployment of human capital in organisations and the relevant factors and skills which you should be aware of if you are to play a part in influencing and shaping the organisation in terms of its human capability.

In the current dynamic business environment, it is important to take a visionary approach and embed innovation to help organisations deal with the challenges of a fast-moving marketplace. The landscape of technology and innovation is continuously changing, and it is important to understand the relationship between marketing and innovation and recognise the key factors in building and nurturing innovation within the marketing function. It is important to understand the internal and external marketing factors in supporting a specific innovation.

Finance and accounting are at the heart of any contemporary organisation, from multi-million-pound global companies to small local charities, yet often the people making major decisions within these organisations have only a very basic understanding of the financial implications of their decisions.

As a consequence of growing public awareness of the impact of businesses on the environment and the ever increasing body of environmental legislation, there is increasing desire among businesses to operate in a more sustainable manner. This module will provide you with a critical knowledge and understanding of the corporate sustainability challenge facing organisations as well as the skills required to drive the improvement in organisational culture and environmental performance resulting more sustainable, future fit businesses.

Independent study normally forms a significant part of a masters programme. This is a major piece of independently researched work, providing an opportunity to carry out an in-depth investigation of a management problem or issue that should normally have a strategic dimension which addresses organisational issues and provides a process for solving management problems.