Executive MBA (Built Environment)

Course structure

Three years – university-based study blocks

Each module involves a three-day study block and self-managed study time. You complete
• year one – four modules
• year two – three modules plus work-based project
• year three – one module plus dissertation or consultancy project

This flexible attendance means that the course has minimal impact on your work or personal time and you can be based anywhere in the UK or overseas.

Starts February
If you would like to discuss the start date options, please email the course leader, Dr Steven Pattinson s.pattinson@shu.ac.uk

Typical modules may include

Year one

MBA core modules
• managing strategy • strategic marketing management and decision making

Built environment core modules
• leadership, partnership and change • management information systems

Year two

MBA core modules
• strategic global human resource management and decision-making • developing personal and professional leadership practice

Built environment options
Choose one from • innovative value management • strategic project management • strategic property asset management

Choose one from • international contract procurement • global interdisciplinary perspectives and practice

Year three

MBA core modules
• research and consultancy methods • dissertation or consultancy project

Module descriptions – MBA

Developing personal and professional leadership practice
This module will help you to develop and enhance the qualities and transferrable skills necessary for your studies, career progression, professional and personal development. You will develop and practice the skills required to critically reflect on learning and on your ability to apply learning to real world complex issues within the work place; citing actions and barriers to implementation.

Managing strategy
The module explores the theory of strategic management and financial concepts, in a range of industries, organisational and global contexts. You will develop the critical, theoretical and practical skills to examine past strategies and current positions, and develop proposals on how organisations might develop in the future with consideration of the global business environment.

Strategic marketing management and decision making
This module will help you to understand what it means to be a marketing oriented organisation and how to develop marketing strategies that meet corporate objectives and deliver sustainable competitive advantage.

Strategic global human resource management and decision-making
This module is designed to enhance your knowledge and develop your understanding of organisational behaviour and human resource management theory and practice. It will develop and expand your knowledge and perspective of the complexity of the interrelationships between people, organisations and the environment, in the contexts of contemporary international organisations.

Research and consultancy methods
The module provides you with a wide ranging introduction to research methodology, in order to underpin your dissertation/consultancy project.

Dissertation or consultancy project
The module provides specialist support for your critical research and analysis in to a specific business issue in the built environment.

Module descriptions – built environment

Leadership, partnership and change (core module)
Built environment professionals are operating in a complex and rapidly changing social, political and economic context which is increasingly reliant upon the effective collaboration of a range of professionals in the private, not for profit and public sectors. Within this context, the module will develop your knowledge of the complexity of leadership and change, through real world diagnosis and application, and awareness of the diverse spectrum of related concepts, models and theories.

Management information systems (core module)
The module will develop critical knowledge and understanding of information systems and modern digital technologies linked to organisational processes and their use in supporting business operations.

Innovative value management
The module will develop knowledge and understanding of the different methods and strategies used to manage value within projects, and critically evaluate both their importance within the increasing globalisation of project delivery and as part of strategies for companies operating within those global markets.

Strategic project management
The module will develop your strategic project management knowledge coupled with the appropriate application of tools and techniques in support of project delivery and in meeting strategic organisational needs, goals and objectives.

Strategic property asset management
The module will develop your critical appreciation of the management of residential and commercial property assets, the alignment of business and property asset strategies and the ways in which property can best support business goals and objectives.

Contract procurement strategy
The module will develop your knowledge and understanding of the administrative procedures associated with procurement strategies and related forms of contract to support stakeholders' requirements and the delivery of projects in a global context.

Global interdisciplinary perspectives and practice
The module explores urban development in an unfamiliar politico-economic and socio-cultural setting; providing direct experience of professional regulation, practice and methodology within a geographical location outside United Kingdom. It also provides experience in the management and execution of a complex assignment in a collaborative interdisciplinary context.