Academically rigorous, stimulating and practical, a successful MBA challenges students through class-room learning and practical opportunities to apply new skills learned. The programme covers eight carefully selected subjects, considered essential to any business manager's toolkit.
One of the prerequisites of a successful manager is the ability to understand and critically analyse financial information.
This Module identifies and exposes students to different financial information relevant to the modern business environment.
Financial Analysis blends important areas in the field of Financial Reporting, Management accounting, Auditing and Corporate governance to provide a comprehensive insight of business finance relevant for decision making.
The speed of change and the associated complexity facing organisations in the late 20th and early 21st centuries has meant that managers are increasingly having to develop strategies and solutions which would have been considered unthinkable a few years before.
In other words managers must come up with creative ideas that can be developed into successful innovations. The study of Innovation (and creativity) can be argued as being essential to the study of management at this strategic level in the MBA programme.
This is clearly evident in the business world (Public or Private sectors) where increasingly added value comes from the ability to devise strategies and actions that are 'novel' in terms of the competition and the prevailing context.
The role of the modern manager is demanding and significant. People leadership and management requires a new management perspective, where the use of a special range of skills, distinctive attitudes and behaviours need to be developed.
This course attempts to identify the main elements and realities of a manager's role for a turbulent organisational environment.
The study area of People Leadership and Management seeks to explore “hard and soft” organisational issues at a variety of levels. In process terms, one of the key areas of concern is how to understand the operation of business and management and the required prerequisites for organisational development
Managerial work is complex and fragmented in its nature. The very term implies a range of behaviour from administration to leadership and job descriptions and roles for managers may differ.
As competition increases and resources become scarce there is significant benefit to be gained from the understanding of how operations can and should be managed including techniques, relationships and demands.
You will study the ways in which the managing of operations enables manufacturing, service and public sector organizations deliver quantity, quality, cost and availability to satisfy the needs of the market, whilst simultaneously making the best effective use of resources.
The aim of this course is to extend the student's knowledge of the process of leadership as a strategic tool and to analyse the contribution that sound strategic leadership can make to the success of an organisation.
You will be provided with a range of tools and techniques to analyse the business environment and to enable them to use their analysis to better understand present and future opportunities and threats.
You will evaluate regional, national and supra-national conditions that are currently, or will in the future impact upon their organisations
The module sets out to develop an understanding of Strategic Marketing in the context of a dynamic and global business environment.
It has an ethos that underlines the linkages between strategic development and the marketing interface culminating in a stance that accepts business development through market development. This view has been taken in light of the nature of contemporary business models and societal shifts – where entrepreneurial organisations develop value with customers in a wide variety of contexts but increasingly through technology mediated social networks and tribal constructs.
This module develops knowledge and understanding of the development of strategy for business development and thus market development within a contemporary context.
A significant benchmark which has been used in preparation of the module has been the CIPD's Practitioner Level Standards for Personnel Management and Development. This module in the CIPD's Professional Development Scheme seeks to offer a ‘broad brush' approach to all aspects of HRM practice.
The module offered here draws much of the same learning objectives whilst specifically gearing it to the needs of a 15 credit module and the fact that those studying this subject are more likely to be ‘generalist' managers occupied with the task of implementing HR policies than HR Practitioners involved in making policy in this organisational function.
Business today is developing in a growing global marketplace in which different systems and cultures co-exist and function with increasing influence. Effective international management depends heavily on good understanding of wide variety of cultures and practices existing in regional, national, industry and organisational contexts, hence the need of a module that emphasis both awareness of how different cultural systems operate and therefore respond accordingly.
The value of this module lies in equipping students with the essential knowledge, cross- cultural awareness, key analytical tools and managerial skills to succeed in an international setting, with particular emphasis on the Asia-Pacific and Western context, and develop the ability to respond adequately to a range of complex factors based on the historical, cultural, economic and political development in the regions.
The dissertation is designed to develop theoretical and practical skills through a sustained piece of independent intellectual work, in which students plan, organise and carry out an independent study. In undertaking the dissertation, the student will integrate academic perspectives with management concepts and techniques to analyse a research problem. Further, the student will systematically and creatively, draw conclusions and recommend with a justification of further research.
The research problem may relate to situations inside businesses or organisations, such as human resources planning; or it may relate to customers, suppliers or other stakeholders in the business or organisation to its value chain, such as customer service, or implementing software development within customer organisations. In the process of completing the dissertation, students will develop skills in managing time and information, reviewing literature, undertaking further research as appropriate and critically evaluating results.
Matt talks about his MBA experience at IBAT
"The MBA program at IBAT College is giving me the opportunity to understand how the different functions operate and the skills I require to progress my carer within the organisation.".
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