Leadership and Management PgCert, PgDip, MA

at Coventry University

Why you should study this course

This course seeks to attract and support individual managers and leaders at all career stages, from entry-level management to those in senior leadership positions. Its theoretical framework aims to help you understand and address the challenges you face within your professional environment, with considerable emphasis placed on the application of learning to work settings, for instance through group discussions and assessments.
 

• Year one
   

The course offers you the opportunity to develop your understanding of seminal and contemporary leadership and management theories and ideas, and explore how to understand and develop your effectiveness as a leader further. You will also explore why leadership and management are so critical to organisational effectiveness. All modules listed are mandatory.
 

Modules
 

• Leadership and Management Theory – 30 credits

  This module will provide you with knowledge, critical awareness and understanding of seminal and contemporary theories of leadership and management, in modern organisations.

  Compulsory
   

• Personal Leadership and Management Skills – 30 credits

  This module will encourage the development of professional leadership and management skills through self-reflection, personal development planning, analytical thinking and awareness of personal effectiveness.

  Compulsory
   

• Strategic Leadership & Management – 30 credits

  The aim of this module is to give you the skills needed to analyse the key leadership and management issues that impact organisations at a strategic level, and appreciate the conflicting pressures from stakeholders and the external environment.

  Compulsory
   

• Leadership and Management of Communication, Culture and Change – 30 credits

  The aim of this module is to encourage you to appreciate key strategic organisational issues and the impact that leaders and managers can have.

  Compulsory
   

• Leadership and Management Research Project – 50 credits

  The research project is designed to develop your ability to investigate strategies, gather and analyse evidence, and make sound conclusions and recommendations within a leadership and management context.

  Compulsory
   

• Leading Diverse Workforces – 10 credits

  This module aims to provide students with a framework of knowledge and understanding of how to effectively lead and develop people in a strategically diverse and inclusive way . Students will explore for example, the influence and impact of leadership theories, culture, wellbeing, and approaches to developing better equality, diversity and inclusion strategies and practices that can be used creatively within a leadership role in different types of organisational scenarios.

  Compulsory
   

With professional experience option 
 

The professional experience opportunity enables you the opportunity to apply for optional professional experience in semester 1, which, upon successfully securing an opportunity, will extend the duration of your master’s to either 16, 20 or 24 months. The professional experience provides an opportunity for you to develop expertise and experience in your chosen field with the aim of enhancing your employability.

We regularly review our course content, to make it relevant and current for the benefit of our students. For these reasons, course modules may be updated.
 

How you'll learn
 

Teaching methods include: 

• Lectures 

• Seminars 

• Tutorials 

• Presentations 

• Group projects 

• Workshops 
   

This course can be studied on a part-time basis. Whilst we would like to give you all the information about our part-time offering here, it is tailored for each course each year depending on the number of part-time applicants. Therefore, the part-time teaching arrangements vary. Please request information about studying this course part-time. 
 

As an innovative and enterprising institution, the University may seek to utilise emerging technologies within the student experience. For all courses (whether on-campus, blended, or distance learning), the University may deliver certain contact hours and assessments via online technologies and methods. 
 

Teaching contact hours
 

Throughout the course, teaching is typically conducted across five Fridays throughout each semester. Each day of teaching usually runs from 9.00 until 15.00.

Additionally, you will be expected to undertake significant self-directed study, depending on the demands of individual modules.

The contact hours may be made up of a combination of face-to-face teaching, individual and group tutorials, and online classes and tutorials.
 

Assessment
 

This course will be assessed using a variety of methods which will vary depending upon the module. Focus is placed on the practical application of ideas within the workplace, thereby helping students to develop learning which can immediately impact on their day-to-day performance.
 

Assessment methods include:

• Essays

• Group work

• Presentations

• Reports

• Projects

• Coursework

• Individual Assignments
   

The Coventry University Group assessment strategy ensures that our courses are fairly assessed and allows us to monitor student progression towards achieving the intended learning outcomes.

 

Applicants should hold a good honours degree 2.2 or above in a relevant academic discipline, such as finance, accounting or economics.  Applications from candidates with relevant experience will be considered on an individual basis. 

English language requirements

• IELTS: 6.5 overall, with no component lower than 5.5

You can start this course as a Postgraduate Certificate (PgCert), and progress onto the Postgraduate Diploma (PgDip) and then Masters (MA), fees are charged per one-year stage. You can also finish after each stage and leave with that award. This course is a mix of work based learning/part-time.
 

Student	Full time	Part time
UK	£14,550 none	Not available
International	£18,250 none	Not available

On successful completion of the Postgraduate Certificate in Leadership and Management you will be able to:
 

• Demonstrate a critical awareness and systematic understanding of seminal and contemporary theories of leadership and management.
• Communicate a critical awareness of the complex nature of leadership and management theories within a wider organisational and contextual framework.
• Formulate and appraise personal leadership and management skills through self-reflection, personal development planning, analytical thinking and awareness of personal effectiveness.
• Communicate effective academic scholarship skills by judging and systematically presenting arguments from credible sources of information, both orally and in writing, using a range of media.
   

On successful completion of the Postgraduate Diploma in Leadership and Management you will, in addition to the above, be able to:
 

• Identify and critically analyse the key leadership and management issues that impact organisations at a strategic level and appreciate the conflicting pressures from the external environment.
• Critically assess and creatively apply contemporary theories of leadership and management to real-life organisations and industries with a specific focus on key areas which affect relationships between business functions and teams.
• Evaluate the credibility and rigour of published research and assess its relevance to modern organisations and industries of today.
   

On successful completion of the Master’s in Leadership and Management students you will, in addition to all of the above, be able to:
 

• Critically evaluate research methodologies and propose a research pathway that demonstrates reliability, validity and coherence through autonomous planning.
• Select a relevant leadership and management issue and demonstrate a critical awareness of seminal and contemporary theories through originality in the application of knowledge.
• Acquire and analyse primary and/or secondary data demonstrating an understanding of ethical approaches to gathering data for research purposes.
• Synthesise academic theory with independently gathered research data and construct an argument to form recommendations and conclusions for the industry or organisation of choice.
• Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the principles of coaching and mentoring and the theories and practices of strategic leadership.