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Knowledge and Understanding

On successful completion of the programme, students should be able to demonstrate relevant knowledge and understanding of :

• Organisations: this encompasses the internal aspects, functions and processes of organisations including their diverse nature, purposes, structures, size/scale, governance, operations and management, together with the individual and corporate behaviours and cultures which exist within and between different organisations, and their influence upon the external environment.

• The business environment: this encompasses the fast pace of change within a wide range of factors, including economic, environmental, cultural, ethical, legal and regulatory, political, sociological, digital and technological, together with their effects at local, national and global levels upon the strategy, behaviour, management and sustainability of organisations.

• Management: this encompasses the various processes, procedures and practices for effective management of organisations. It includes theories, models, frameworks, tasks and roles of management, including the management of people and corporate social responsibility, together with rational analysis and other processes of decision making within different organisations.

Overall students should be able to integrate their learning from a comprehensive range of managerial subject areas to understand and address complex business and management situations holistically. Specifically, this includes developing detailed knowledge and understanding of the below areas:

1- Decision-making and Leadership
2- Strategic analysis
3- Digital Technology and Disruption
4- Interpersonal and people management
5- Sustainability and Ethics
6- Negotiation and Culture Management
7- Financial and managerial accounting analysis
8- Personal and Critical Self awareness
9- Project Management
10- Marketing and Innovation
11- Operation and Supply Chain Management
12- Risk management
13- Research and time management

Cognitive Skills

1- Identify and critically reflect upon connections between theory and practice
2- Formulate ideas and questions related to the subject
3- Critically analyse relevant concepts and theories

Practical/Transferable Skills

1- Access and assimilate information from a variety of sources
2- Apply knowledge to complex business and management situations
3- Implement and execute ideas and solutions to complex business and management situations
4- Analytical and problem-solving skills
5- Written, oral & listening communication skills
6- Self-reflection: self-analysis and an awareness/sensitivity to diversity in terms of people and cultures.
7- Ability to work independently and in a group
8- Building and maintaining relationships.
9- Networking: an awareness of the interpersonal skills of effective listening, negotiating, persuasion and presentation and their use in generating business contacts
10- Communications, team building, negotiation and managing conflict, providing feedback, leadership and motivating others
11- Planning and time management skills
12- Research skills (ability to collate, analyse and evaluate data);
13- Numeracy and quantitative skills in handling data;
14- Computer literacy