Executive Master of Business Administration

Module

The modules in the Master of Business Administration (Executive Route) are:

Critical Issues in Business
Management and Organisational Behaviour
Leadership in a Changing Context
Strategic Marketing
Managing Operations and the Supply Chain
Competitive Strategy and Innovation
Financial Decision Making
Business Research Project

Educational Objectives and Outcomes

The learning outcomes are:

A. Knowledge and Understanding
- systematically collect and critically analyse information and synthesise it into
appropriate form in order to evaluate situations and alternate courses of action
- understand and apply accurately techniques to evaluate organizational
performance, identify problems and formulate potential improvement strategies
- demonstrate an awareness and appreciation of the contributions made by different
disciplines to the achievement of organizational goals and the conduct of
management tasks and projects
- demonstrate empathy and understanding of cultural issues and differing managerial
practices when dealing with business decisions set in the context of the
international environment

B. Subject specific/practical skills
- Select appropriate leadership styles for managing situations of varying complexity
that arise in a variety of organizational contexts
- Set organizational/project targets, motivate personnel, monitor performance, coach
and mentor, in order to achieve organization goals, quality enhancement and
continuous improvements
- Understand the contrasting forces of ethical, societal and organizational values to
situations and choices when involved in complex decision making in unpredictable
contexts
- Carry out detailed and critical analysis of management situations and problems,
leading to recommend action plans

C. Key skills

- Examine, organize and present data from a variety of sources and identify relative
meaning and significance
- Employ competence levels of information technology and communication skills, and
the ability to make effective use of IT software tools that are commonly used in
organisations by management
- Communicate efficiently and effectively, in oral, written and verbal form
- Possess self-awareness and self-organisational skills, together with sensitivity to
others’ needs
- Perform effectively in the leadership and management of teams within the
organizational context
- Become a reflective practitioner and learn through experience

Course Assessment
Assignments,Presentation, Examinations, and Dissertation.