Teaching and assessment for Management, Strategy and Leadership MSc

For any aspiring global business leader, understanding international business strategy is essential, this module will help develop your skills in assessing strategic decisions made by international firms, and by using the analytical tools used by successful managers worldwide.

Managing People and Organisations explores effective leadership, teamwork, communication, and decision-making within diverse workplaces. You will learn about motivation, conflict resolution, ethics, and organisational culture. This will help you better understand your colleagues in the workplace regardless of your career path.

During this module you will meet other students from different courses that share common components. This module will prepare you to get the most out of your studies and further your career after graduation in the world of business.

The module provides an understanding of how an organisation implements marketing strategy and pinpoints the principles of analysis, planning, and implementation for strategic marketing activities.

It will give you the tools and skills required to analyse marketing problems and make informed decisions that can enhance an organisation’s competitive advantage.

You will develop your leadership and decision making skills by improving your understanding of the role, responsibilities and competencies of leadership, gain insight to the current theories and how to apply these skills in a business context.

Based on topical issues in your programme, you will apply theory and knowledge from the taught modules to a new situation.

You will evaluate literature to reflect on an internship, answer a problem provided by a local firm, or explore a topic provided by the programme leader.

Students will develop their academic English while working with material from their core business modules.

This is an English support module for international business students.

Our world is increasingly diverse with multiple cultural backgrounds and nationalities. The world of business is no different and organisations should aspire to understand and represent diversity. This module will help you understand differences and how to develop cross-cultural competencies.

Sports is a growing sector, you will learn what makes managing in sports different from managing in other industries. This module explores sports as a business, using guest speakers from various sports-based management perspectives.

Major trends in strategic management and management accounting are explained and evaluated in order to better understand management challenges.

A case study in the automotive industry will be used to exemplify how businesses adapt to their external environment by integrating the ‘three meshed gears’ of marketing, engineering, and finance.

The module will critically explain the relationship between a business, its stakeholders, and society.

You will work with some of the issues business's face, such as responsibility, accountability, transparency, sustainability and diversity.

You will also examine the challenges involved in addressing and resolving these issues.