A 2-year, part-time programme consisting of 10 core modules, 4 electives, customised workshops, two one-week plenary workshops, personal development plans (PDP), individual projects and a dissertation.

10 CORE COURSES:

Philosophy of management
International accounting and finance
International human resource management
Leadership and organisations
International operations management
Information systems
International marketing
International strategy
International business economics
International sustainability management

ELECTIVES (choose 4):

China and the international economy
Advertising and promotional communication
Co-operative strategy
International business analysis
Corporate social responsibility
Management of Japanese multinationals
Multinational enterprise and the global economy
Investment management
Corporate finance
Knowledge management
International business law
Global financial markets

The majority of the core modules will be completed in year 1 and they will be CUSTOMISED to the client’s “situation” in face-to-face workshops. Participants will be put into ACTION LEARNING “SETS”, that is, small groups who will meet regularly to share experiences and help each other with the learning process and the individual projects. A one week workshop will be held at the end of year 1.

In year 2 individuals will choose 4 electives and begin their dissertation. They will carry on meeting in their action learning sets and with their PDP assignments. The focus of year 2 will be on using the IMPLEMENTATION SKILLS that individuals will have developed to produce measurable improvements in organisational performance in the departments they control and in their wider organisations. Towards the end of year 2, a further one week workshop will be held to integrate the whole programme.

INDIVIDUAL PROJECTS

The written assignments from each core module will be integrated into an individual project done by everyone. This aims at identifying obstacles to achieving performance excellence and defining a BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT PLAN (BIP) for the areas of business they manage, using the knowledge they gain from the workshops. They will then implement this BIP during the programme and learn about managerial excellence and their personal competencies from their experiences of analysis, synthesis and action.

This project acts as an integrator of the programme and a vehicle for transferring knowledge into action in the workplace. In year 2 this can become the MBA project or indeed another more specialised subject may be studied. One-to-one TUTORIALS are provided in addition to a workshop on how to collect and analyse data.

THE PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN (PDP)

The PDP will identify the student’s strengths and weaknesses as a manager and will be the vehicle through which individuals will remove their weaknesses and increase their strengths during the programme.

One of the biggest obstacles to organisational success is the inability of many mangers to create a climate of innovation and CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT, where staff are committed to give of their best. This obstacle is compounded by the reluctance of mangers to admit to weaknesses in the critical area of leadership and people management.

In the PDP the Programme Director works with each individual to define their managerial weaknesses and to remove them during the programme. Models of managerial and leadership competence are presented, records of learning experiences documented and techniques of LIFELONG LEARNING featured. INDIVIDUAL TUTORIALS are given by the Programme Director.