Study Plan – Master of Business Administration

Study Plan ? Master of Business Administration.

Stage 1 Mandatory (16 credit hours)

Course Code

Course Title

Credit Hours

B713 Fundamentals of Senior Management

16

Stage 2 Mandatory (16 credit hours)

B820 Strategy

8

B830 Making a Difference

8

Stage 2 Electives (16 credit hours)

Two Modules from the following list of electives.

B821 Financial Strategy

8

B825 Marketing in a Complex World

8

B855 The Human Resource Professional

8

T883 Business Operations

8

T889 Problem Solving and Improvement

8

Total Credit Hours for Program 48.

Upon successful completion of stage I , the student can be conferred with the UK Open University validated award of " Postgraduate Certificate in Management " .

For branches that require a thesis for local accreditation, B830 will assume the status of the required thesis.

B713 Fundamentals of Senior Management This is a challenging course combining rigorous analytical work with personal and professional development. It will give you a thorough grounding in management concepts and principles, familiarize you with a wide variety of techniques and approaches, improve your self-awareness and interpersonal skills, and help you to develop reflective and critical thinking. The course will expose you to a diverse range of managerial challenges ? focusing on the context and practice of management, improving performance, project management and managing change.

B820 Strategy Success in strategy depends on matching an organization's distinctive assets and capabilities to its external relationships. This course will help you to develop a better

understanding of what business strategy entails, both theoretically and in practice. It will improve your strategic thinking skills and develop your own view of your role in making strategy in the organization. This course provides the framework of strategic issues on which the other masters' courses build.

B830 Making a Difference This course consolidates your ability to make a real difference to organizational performance as a manager or leader. It should be studied towards the latter part of your study programme, as it builds on learning and assessment of previous courses. You'll undertake some preliminary work on the integration of theory, practice and learning before embarking on a largely self-directed programme focusing on a management initiative of your own choosing, in which we'll support you with resources and guidance. The course aims to enable you to make a difference in your own organization and to enhance your own personal and professional development.

B821 Financial Strategy Middle and senior line managers meet a multiplicity of financial problems in their organizations. This course will interest those wanting to develop their knowledge of the area. It introduces finance and accounting problems that organizations face at board level, and enables you to feel at ease working with finance and accounting experts. You'll examine how finance and accounting interact (covering both public and private sector finance issues), develop a grasp of the fundamentals of corporate financial theory, and learn how to tackle the main financial problems you're likely to encounter. You'll also be able to understand and analyze company accounts in different situations.

B825 Marketing in a Complex World (optional) This course does not suggest that there are simple solutions, but puts forward concepts and analytical techniques that will help managers to make marketing decisions against a background of complexity and uncertainty. It expands into a broad discussion of complexity theory and its application to marketing strategy. You'll discuss external change drivers, focusing on economics and scenario planning, and deal with advanced marketing concepts and techniques ? emphasizing relationship marketing, and brand strategy and management. By the end, you'll be able to prepare strategic scenarios with an understanding of how relationships influence current marketing theory and the issues involved in marketing communications.

B855 The Human Resource Professional (optional) This course develops the professional HR skills and expertise needed at both operational and strategic levels and in organizations where change and outsourcing are becoming the norm. These include practical, conceptual and critical skills ? including those needed for effective continued professional development. You will address core HR areas (resourcing, employee relations, development, performance management and reward), setting these within wider organizational, professional, legal and ethical contexts, and considering how the HR profession is changing. You will also develop skills required to manage consultants, and to operate as an effective change agent and consultant yourself ? activities which will feature in many HR careers.

T883 Business Operations: Delivering Value (optional) The core of any enterprise is the set of processes that must take place to deliver goods and services that provide value to customers and other stakeholders. To effectively design and manage business operations requires an appreciation of their strategic importance, an understanding of the human and technical factors that impact on their effectiveness, and mastery of appropriate analytical techniques. In this course, concepts and principles are taught using case studies spanning all sectors of the economy: public or private, large or small, manufacturing or service-based, and you'll have opportunities to apply your learning to your own context.

T889 Problem Solving and Improvement: Quality and other Approaches (optional) Problem solving is a necessary activity for all organizations. However, it is frequently ineffective: chronic problems that were supposedly solved re-emerge, and opportunities remain unrealized. Although many organizations have had early successes with mechanisms for problem solving and improvement, these have often foundered over time. This course provides a wide range of problem solving approaches, methods and techniques ? and their underpinning concepts, principles and theoretical backgrounds ? that will enable you to investigate problems properly; and generate robust, effective solutions that are sustainable. It also explores the nature of problems and solutions, and the management of problem solving and improvement

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