MSc Management

MSc will equip you with the necessary knowledge, skills, and techniques to overcome some of the problems associated with substandard management – low staff morale, loss of talent, inadequate budgeting, reduced productivity, and missed commercial opportunities. Instead, we’ll prepare you to perform executive duties in ways that motivate others and achieve business objectives successfully, with the flexibility to adapt and thrive in rapidly changing and uncertain external environments. Referring to real-life business examples and hearing direct from businesses, you’ll gain a comprehensive understanding of the strategic and operational challenges that can arise, in areas such as leadership, ethics, or sustainability, for example. The Business School’s Grand Challenges lecture series invites key speakers to provide fresh perspectives on the political, ethical, and intellectual problems we face as a world today, while our Lunchtime Lectures center on leadership in the context of complexity and inclusion. Your final project will give you the opportunity to directly transfer your learning to the workplace by researching a current management topic, responding to a specific business issue, or undertaking a ‘live’ work-based project.

SEMESTER 1

Core modules

• Leadership
• International Operations and Supply

Optional modules – you will choose two of the following:

• International Business Context
• Accounting for Decision Making
• Understanding Consumer Behaviour
• Marketing Management in the Digital Age
• Clean and Green: Technologies from Above the Earth
• System Design and Programming

SEMESTER 2

Core modules

• Introduction to Research
• Contemporary Challenges in Global Business
• Elective modules
• You will choose one of the following:
• Creativity and Personal Development

Optional modules – you will choose two of the following modules:

• Branding
• Case Studies in Sustainability
• Cloud Computing
• Collaborative Application Development
• Entrepreneurship
• Green IT
• International HRM
• Strategic HRM
• Strategy and Information Management
• Web Tech and Security

SEMESTER 3

Core modules

• Research methods

Employability

This master’s degree will equip you with a broad knowledge of business, finance, economics, and marketing, as well as a range of practical skills and work experience, much sought-after by employers across a large variety of sectors, including the public, private and voluntary. You could pursue careers in management consultancy or specialize in specific areas of business, such as product, retail, risk, sales, or human resource management.

Graduates from this program have gone to pursue a range of managerial and professional careers such as HR consultant, marketing director, sales manager, and operations manager. Recent employers include companies in various manufacturing and services sectors and also organizations in the public sector, ranging from a restaurant in Birmingham, Whitbread, and Xiao Noodle Store to a mobile phone company in China, the Greek Navy, UPS, and PDSA.

On completion, you’ll be ideally placed to pursue further postgraduate studies at MPhil or Ph.D. level.

Examples of the roles you might progress to during the course of your career include:

• Business analyst
• Business development manager
• Management consultant
• Project manager
• Risk manager
• Sales executive
• Supply chain manager