Professional Development MBA

• Emphasis placed on collaborative working using a variety of learning techniques
• Learning techniques include a mix of workshops, open learning material and websites, action-learning set meetings and regular web-based communication
• Delivery based around evenings and weekends
• The programme will be supported by the use of online action learning sets and some distance learning materials delivered via our virtual learning environment
• Targeted at professionals in full-time employment in the UK seeking to build personal capabilities in the cornerstone areas of organisational management
• Allows you to expand your skills portfolio as a result of new work challenges
• You will explore solutions to current management challenges by linking the teaching and learning to the organisational context of the participating manager
• Coventry University Business School is a member of the Association of Business Schools and the European Foundation for Management Education (EFMD).
• Coventry University Business School has links to professional management bodies such as CIM, CIPD, CMI. ACCA and CIMA.

The MBA is a means of enhancing your career prospects as well as opening doors for future middle and senior managers. A Coventry University Business school MBA will enable you to meet your career aspirations sucessfully and quickly. This is a part-time course that runs twice yearly. It lasts for three years but it is possible to complete it earlier if you have appropriate qualifications You can take more time if you have acute work pressures. It is also available as an in-house corporate program on request.

Studying for the MBA using this route covers a number of major themes:

• Your personal development needs as a leader and manager as part of your continuous professional development
• The application of strategic theory to your organisation
• The response to the changes in your organisation's external world

Using a range of teaching and learning techniques to support either personal development as an aspiring senior manager, or just to refresh and update existing knowledge and skills, it focuses on an holistic approach to the enhancement of a skill-set for today's managers to enable them to cope with the challenges of the future.

The second year modules offer the opportunity to develop skills that are fundamental to successful direction of the organisation of the future and its stakeholders: leadership; management of information and innovation and corporate social responsibility.

Credits

The award is worth 180 CATS points, and is built up as follows:

Year 1 Postgraduate Certificate in Business Administration (Professional Development) (60 CATS)
Cornerstones of Management - Tools and Techniques for Senior Managers
This consists of four compulsory courses:

• Economic Environment of Business (M03EFA)
• Financial Analysis and Decision making (M05EFA)
• Principles of Marketing (M04MKT)
• Strategic Human Resource Management (M11HRM)

Year 2

Postgraduate Diploma in Business Administration (Professional Development). (60 CATS)

Integrating Issues for Today's Senior Management Team
This consists of four compulsory courses:

• Strategic Analysis (M34BSS)
• Corporate Social Responsibility (M03MKT)
• Knowledge and Information Management and Innovation (M31 BSS)
• Issues in Strategic Leadership M32BSS)

Year 3

MBA (60 CATS Points)

Knowledge into Action

A 10 credit module on Research Methods (M25BSS) (if not already previously completed), followed by a 12,000 word dissertation module, (M30BSS) in a specialist area relevant to the sponsoring organisation.

In each case, the student will have an allocated staff member acting as their personal supervisor