Part Time Executive MBA

MBA

In Lancaster

£ 17,500 + VAT

Description

  • Type

    MBA

  • Location

    Lancaster

  • Duration

    24 Months

EMBA is geared to developing your knowledge of business functions and their interactions, and to building your ability to manage and lead in complex organisational situations. Its emphasis on practical thinking processes to underpin and drive purposeful action will develop your capacity to become an effective agent for change within your organisation. Suitable for: The Executive MBA at Lancaster is a two-year part-time programme for experienced managers.

Facilities

Location

Start date

Lancaster (Lancashire)
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Bailrigg, LA1 4YX

Start date

On request

About this course

honours degree or equivalent; GMAT 600+; IELTS 7.0 or TOEFL-CBT 250 if first language is not English
Work experience: at least five years needed

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Course programme

The programme's pedigree
  • The Lancaster EMBA is a part-time MBA accredited by the Association of MBAs
  • Executive education at Lancaster is rated in the Financial Times Top 50 Global Custom Executive Education providers (6th in the UK in 2008)
  • The School's full EQUIS accreditation from the European Foundation of Management was reaffirmed in 2008 and AACSB accreditation was awarded in April 2008.
Features: 5-day modules every 2 to 3 months, with related workplace assignments and an emphasis on developing project, consulting and leadership skills Programme content
The first year of the EMBA programme, with its five core modules, provides a thorough grounding in the main management areas. The second year offers increasing scope for specialised study, and further opportunities to apply your knowledge in an integrated way to project and consultancy work.
Year 1
Introductory workshop - an introduction to staff and facilities, designed also to help you start building relationships. It introduces you to the programme's central ethos of learning through action. Sessions on study skills are also included to facilitate a smooth return to education.
Strategic Management - focuses on how to take a strategic and holistic perspective when diagnosing problems, planning and leading within organisations, and explores how globalisation and other external environmental forces impact on the strategic options open to organisations.
Accounting and Finance - develops your skills in analysing and using financial information, and your understanding of the role of management accounting and performance measurement.
Marketing and Operations Management - explores how organisations research, segment and attack markets, and teaches you to challenge and improve marketing strategies through branding and manipulation of the marketing mix. It also examines how organisations can design and manage processes, resources and control systems to deliver quality and value-adding activities in the most effective way.
Analysing Organisational Behaviour - provides frameworks and tools with real practical relevance for managing highly complex HR decisions. It explores the world of work, taking into account how recent changes have affected the process of managing and how changes in structure and process within organisations affect culture and values. It also explores issues of power.
Managing Change - managing people's reaction to change is a key leadership skill in ensuring that management objectives are realised. This module not only examines the impact of change on organisations and individuals, it also explores the process of diagnosis and of developing appropriate strategies for leading and managing change.
Year 2
Case study examinations
This is a group and individual process, involving the analysis of two cases over a four-day period. The examinations are integrative in that they require you to draw on your knowledge from all five of the Year 1 core modules.
Leading in Action Consultancy Challenge - this forms a key part of the action orientation of the EMBA programme, and consists of a one-week group consultancy intervention for a client organisation. It gives you scope to test out your new knowledge and skills in an unfamiliar environment, thus helping to embed your learning from the programme as a whole.
Electives - here you have opportunities to tailor the programme to your own interests as you choose two electives from a range of subjects offered each year to both EMBA and full-time MBA students. You can also take a further two electives on a non-assessed basis.
Project and Dissertation - this substantial piece of action research is carried out within your own organisation or industry over a nine-month period, and requires you to apply appropriate theory to a central issue of organisational concern.
Why choose the EMBA programme?
All part-time MBA programmes are demanding - on your time, your energy and your mental processes. Lancaster is no different - which is what you'd expect from a management school that has achieved top rankings in the UK for teaching and research for more than a decade.
What makes the EMBA programme special, though, are its concept of learning through action and its dual focus on both personal development and organisational development.
Bring fresh insights and approaches to your company
As a potential EMBA student, you'll doubtless already be grappling with various organisational and business challenges in your professional working life.

Looking at these anew, and exploring how management theories and tools can help you resolve them, is a central part of what the programme aims to help you do - through practical work-based assignments which you tailor to the needs of your job. And it's why the programme develops - and benefits - not only participants but their organisations, too.
Develop your managerial and leadership skills
The EMBA modules and electives will give you a wider knowledge of business functions, processes and strategies - opening up new avenues and perhaps new career directions. They will also expose you to many new ideas and concepts, and challenge you to re-examine aspects of your own practice and your personal management style.
Beyond that, EMBA will also hone your thinking skills, and your capacity to reflect on what works, and why. In practical terms, the work you do - both for your own organisation and, through the , for a client organisation - will take you into new areas. It will fine-tune your consultancy skills and your teamwork, hone your research skills, and perhaps reveal unexpected areas of competence.
Access other minds, experiences and professional expertise
You'll have access not only to an extensive range of tools, concepts and academic resources but also - just as vitally - to the experience and fresh perspectives of your fellow students, faculty member and tutors. The debate and discussion, both in classroom sessions and in the ongoing tutorial groups, is ideal for testing out ideas and can be a powerful source of professional advice.
Modular format - balancing organisational and personal life
Short but intensive modules away from the workplace can give that 'breathing space' which is so hard to achieve under day-to-day pressures, and free you up to engage with complex ideas and problems.
Aims and philosophy
Lancaster has long been noted for its expertise in organisational and managerial learning. We have drawn on that in basing our programme design around the concept of learning through action.
Our aim is that you should gain as much as you can from your time at Lancaster - both for yourself and for your organisation. Not only important functional knowledge but also a deeper self-awareness and a different, more reflective perspective on the process of management and leadership.
At its core, the Lancaster MBA seeks to:
  • enable you to gain a knowledge and understanding of the functions of business and their inter-relationships
  • show you how to structure and understand complex business situations so that you can apply your functional knowledge effectively
  • give you experience and confidence in using theoretical knowledge in practice
  • stimulate you to read and critically appraise management theory and, in doing so, develop your desire for life-long learning
That's why, as you go through the programme, you will be called upon, through a series of work-based projects, to apply and test your developing knowledge and skills within an organisational context. That will not only be within your own company but also - through the Consultancy Challenge in Year 2 - in other, unfamiliar, organisations.
An holistic approach to organisational problem solving
We recognise that managers have to deal with issues which don't necessarily fit into functional and discipline-based compartments. Reviewing a strategic position, for example, requires marketing, operations, finance and people knowledge, as well as strategic thinking know-how. That's why we focus on developing your ability to integrate functional knowledge and to see situations from multiple perspectives, as well as building your generic skills in managing, leading and thinking.
Focus on reflection
Most of all, we'll help you to take a critical approach in designing and conducting research and in using management theory and practice, so that you enhance your understanding through evaluation and reflection. That's something you will take with you, wherever you go next in your career.

Additional information

Support: Scholarships available for exceptionally qualified or experienced applicants

Part Time Executive MBA

£ 17,500 + VAT