MSc Strategic Management

Program Overview

The MSc Strategic Management program provides a comprehensive understanding of strategic management principles and practices. It equips students with the knowledge and skills to develop and execute effective strategies in a global business environment. The program is delivered online through a blended learning approach, featuring expert academics and a range of assessment methods. Graduates are prepared for leadership roles in various industries, including business, consulting, and entrepreneurship.

Program Outline

Degree Overview:

Overview:

The MSc Strategic Management operates within the Postgraduate Regulatory Framework and aims to set the MSc Strategic Management within the context of the broader field of Business and Management. This enables learners to demonstrate relevant knowledge and understanding of organizations, the external context in which they operate, and how they are led.

Objectives:

• Provide a modular program with sufficient variety and flexibility to maintain the rigor of a postgraduate award and meet market demands.
• Offer an intellectually challenging postgraduate learning opportunity that prepares students to "enrich" their chosen career and/or for 'strategic' level career development.
• Develop students' abilities to apply knowledge and understanding of business and management topics and issues to inform Strategic Management practice.
• Enhance students' transferable professional and cognitive skills, enabling them to make valuable contributions to their current or future employment.
• Support students' endeavors for personal self-development and lifelong learning, empowering them to work with confidence and originality while contributing to business and society.
• Facilitate study within a blended learning environment.
• Reflect external frameworks, such as the QAA Qualifications Framework.
• Establish closer links with local, regional, and international employers, other Schools within the University, and international partners.

Target Group:

Designed for a new generation of ambitious business professionals and graduates with an international outlook in an era of rapid global business growth, where managers in every industry need strategies for global scalability.

Outline:

Modules:

• Career Coaching and Mentoring (Core Module): Develops career management awareness and facilitates professional development through the analysis of personality types, coaching styles, and career behaviors.
Explores motivations, leadership development, and the meaning of professionalism in workplace settings. Includes personal diagnostics, tutoring, coaching, and career development workshops.
• Strategy Formulation, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship (Core Module): Provides a broad understanding of strategy and contemporary issues associated with strategy formulation at different organizational levels.
Introduces basic concepts, principles, and analytical approaches for strategic formulation, dynamic capability building, and innovation and entrepreneurship management.
• Strategic Execution, Management, and Leadership (Core Module): Examines how managers deal with issues involved in strategic execution and management.
Imparts understanding of strategic principles, analytical tools, and implementation techniques to enhance firm performance in a competitive global environment.
• International Business Strategies (Core Module): Builds on the Strategic Management module, exploring global changes impacting multi- and international organizations/corporations and their industries.
Analyzes how these changes and the opportunities and threats they create drive domestic enterprises into the international business arena. Focuses on how different enterprises expand and rely on their international operations, and how they develop strategies and establish objectives for internationalizing domestic operations or expanding current international business operations as part of their overall organizational strategy.
• Transforming Personal Skills (Core Module): Equips students with essential professional skills for career development and leadership roles.
Through an experiential approach, develops critical skills in business, including communication, self-management, and self-direction. Provides an overview and appreciation of the challenges of professional working, develops academic study skills, critical review and referencing abilities, and supports students' journey through the program and within their professional contexts.

Optional Modules:

• Strategic Risk Management: Provides a deep understanding of theoretical and practical tools, professional and research skills necessary for understanding, modeling, and tackling major risks arising from complex business environments that demand strategic decision-making.
• Strategic Talent Development: Assists students in understanding the strategic deployment of human capital in organizations, along with relevant factors and skills for influencing and shaping organizational human capability.
• Innovation in Marketing: Explores the relationship between marketing and innovation and the key factors in building and nurturing innovation within the marketing function.
Emphasizes the importance of understanding internal and external marketing factors in supporting specific innovations.
• Financial Dimensions of Strategic Decisions: Focuses on finance and accounting in contemporary organizations, providing a basic understanding for those making major decisions within organizations without a robust understanding of the financial implications of their decisions.
• Sustainable Business Management: Provides critical knowledge and understanding of the corporate sustainability challenge facing organizations, as well as the skills required to drive improvements in organizational culture and environmental performance, resulting in more sustainable, future-fit businesses.
• Independent Study (Core Module): A major piece of independently researched work, providing an opportunity to carry out an in-depth investigation of a management problem or issue that typically has a strategic dimension.
Addresses organizational issues and provides a process for solving management problems.

Assessment:

• A range of assessments designed to meet level 7 requirements, including computer-aided tests, research projects, work-based reports, case study analysis, patchwork assessment, and reflective reports.
• Assessments directly related to students' personal development or diagnosing and applying solutions to their organizations (or comparable case study organizations).
• Summative assessment typically involves a 3,500-word assignment for a fifteen-credit module.
• The final assessment at the Master's level is a major piece of independent study, demonstrating a wide range of knowledge and skills, as indicated in the QAA level 7 benchmarks.

Teaching:

• Modules delivered by expert academics who are practicing professionals, ensuring up-to-date and highly relevant module content with pertinent real-world examples.
• Entirely online delivery through a user-friendly student portal dashboard and digital learning environment.
• Interaction with tutors and fellow students through virtual live classrooms, tutorials, and guest lectures.
• Group discussions and debates held through forums and community spaces, along with the use of collaborative tools like wikis for group projects and assignments.

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