Course modules
Full-time students generally complete the course over one calendar year, with attendance, typically, on evening basis 5pm-8:30pm, one day per week with one Saturday 10am – 4pm a month. Naturally there is also a significant level of independent study required at Masters level. Part-time students take between two and four years to complete the degree.
Finance for Non-Finance Leaders
This module provides an appreciation of a wide range of financial issues as they impact on the business world. It also evaluates the nature of the corporation and its governance from a financial perspective. It concentrates on the basic analysis of financial statements, financial tools and techniques before progressing to a more strategic perspective. It encourages students to see the financial implications of the decision-making process.
Managing in a Changing Environment
This module aims to develop a critical understanding of organisational strategy, and to apply this to different contexts, including commercial and not-for-profit organisations of various sizes. It adopts an interdisciplinary approach to problem solving, drawing on skills developed in other modules. The content will cover contextual analysis, culture and stakeholder analysis, approaches to organisational change management, and methods of implementing and evaluating change interventions. The module encourages students to develop their own intellectual framework of values, attitudes and practice in relation to managing change.
Marketing, Branding and Strategy
Marketing is fundamental to profitable business operations, achieved through strategic analysis, strategy formulation, strategic implementation and control. It is largely responsible for delivering core corporate objectives by offering value propositions to targeted customer segments, helping to sustain competitive advantage in the longer term. It is desirable for the contemporary MBA programme to contain a designated marketing module, which demonstrates a customer-facing approach, integrated across and throughout a business organisation. As a set of principles and practices, marketing also has relevance to public sector and other not-for-profit sectors.
Leadership & Organisational Behaviour
This module explores leadership and management in organisations. Over the course of this module we will consider the complex relationships between personal, structural and environmental factors as they affect the operation and success of organizations. The module introduces the study of organisations and their evolution. In particular it focuses on: Managing people; Managing technology; Managing responsibility. Rather than study each in isolation, in bringing together these key components of organisation strategy, this module reflects the reality of addressing the interests of multiple stakeholders simultaneously. Where appropriate, students are encouraged to reflect on the content of this module in their place of work.
Health and Care Integration: Policy, Systems, Practice and Leadership*
For more than a decade, the requirement for change in health and care has coalesced around the concept of Health and Social Care Integration, recently mandated through the implementation of Integrated Care Systems. It is well-rehearsed argument that leadership is one of the most influential factors in shaping (and changing) organisational culture and in delivering health and care service improvement, greater staff well-being, and increasing quality of care. It is also recognised that the new Integrated Care Systems need leaders who can motivate staff and managers to work differently across service and organisation boundaries. This module will equip leaders to ‘lead differently’ and will explore international, national and local models of integrated care, the evidence underpinning integration, the role of data and digital integration, organisational cultures and behaviours, transformational management and leadership as well as the future of the integration workforce.
