Teaching and assessment for Management MSc

Managing People and Organisations explores effective leadership, teamwork, communication, and decision-making within diverse workplaces. You will learn about motivation, conflict resolution, ethics, and organisational culture. This will help you better understand your colleagues in the workplace regardless of your career path.

Our world is increasingly diverse with multiple cultural backgrounds and nationalities. The world of business is no different and organisations should aspire to understand and represent diversity. This module will help you understand differences and how to develop cross-cultural competencies.

During this module you will meet other students from different courses that share common components. This module will prepare you to get the most out of your studies and further your career after graduation in the world of business.

The module provides an understanding of how an organisation implements marketing strategy and pinpoints the principles of analysis, planning, and implementation for strategic marketing activities.

It will give you the tools and skills required to analyse marketing problems and make informed decisions that can enhance an organisation’s competitive advantage.

The module will critically explain the relationship between a business, its stakeholders, and society.

You will work with some of the issues business's face, such as responsibility, accountability, transparency, sustainability and diversity.

You will also examine the challenges involved in addressing and resolving these issues.

Based on topical issues in your programme, you will apply theory and knowledge from the taught modules to a new situation.

You will evaluate literature to reflect on an internship, answer a problem provided by a local firm, or explore a topic provided by the programme leader.

Students will develop their academic English while working with material from their core business modules.

This is an English support module for international business students.

You will study important themes in corporate governance, such as the nature and importance of corporate governance in both a national and international context.

As well as recent changes in governance applying to major UK and international companies, and the need for ethical business behaviour.

Learn how to use the project knowledge principles for managing complex projects.

Businesses that operate over many countries form a large part of our global economy. This module will introduce you to their structure, strategies and the impact they have on society.