MBA Master of Business Administration (Part-time)

The purpose of this module is firstly to identify, examine and analyse the major contexts both internal and external within which organisations operate. It also considers the resources required and the major functions of the market place. It then sets out to respond to contextual diversity and continuous change in the increasingly global environment. Within this context, marketing is regarded as one of the foundations upon which the understanding of the operation of any organisation is based. This module provides the introduction to marketing and marketing management by offering an insight into the key areas of activity which constitute the marketing process and the management of that process. It adopts a critical perspective with regard to the differing marketing approaches adopted in response to a rapidly changing business arena.
Group Consultancy Project
It is not uncommon for MBA graduates at some point in their career to become management consultants. This module recognises this and aims to further enhance managerial competence and capability by providing the opportunity for students to develop the skills to become competent management consultants. Such competency is highly valued as it can help facilitate internal and external organisational consultancy interventions that add value at both an operational and strategic level.
Integrating Operations
This module explores the role of the operations manager in aligning the processes and operational functions of an organisation to deliver value and to maintain and improve organisational viability. In doing this, it evaluates the differing statistical and related techniques that may be deployed in order to develop available data and information in support of the operational task. Finally, it investigates the nature of information systems and evaluates their role in assisting alignment of operational processes and functions within an service and manufacturing organisations.
Management Decision-Making and the Nature of Management
This module explores decision making and the nature of management. Decision-making is generally regarded as being one of the key management activities in organisations. This module seeks to explore the dynamics of the decision making process. To facilitate this exploration, students are encouraged to work with their own experiences of decision-making. The module explores qualitative aspects of decision making by addressing its philosophical and psychological bases. However, an understanding of the nature of management is also essential so that students are able to locate their own ‘theoretical preferences’ within a critical exploration of competing perspectives. The purpose is to critically evaluate basic assumptions regarding the nature of management and how these affect decision-making. The intention is to make explicit the implicit assumptions about the nature of management that students bring to their studies. This is a key element in the management development process and helps to develop reflective and reflexive practice.
Managerial Finance
This module is intended to give a basic introduction to financial accounting and financial management to enable managers to employ financial tools for decision making. It covers diverse areas such as management accounting, pure finance and accounting and is intended to acquaint a non-specialist with financial managerial skills. Managerial finance commences with basic techniques for costing and break-even analysis and brings in the notion of pricing from a larger viewpoint, namely the market as well as from a strategic management view. Later it touches on financial analysis and budgeting and planning. It then moves on to analysing the sources of finance.