MODULE DESCRIPTION
MBA
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MODULE 1
MANAGING PEOPLE & ORGANISATION

PROGRAM DETAILS
Programme Code: MGT5011
Medium of Instructions: English

Managing people in a business environment in the pursuit of individual, team and organisational goals is an inevitable path. This course highlights the foundations of organisational behaviour and management, with the emphasis on understanding people management issues that candidates are likely to encounter within the organisational sphere.

Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, candidates should be able to:

  • Develop skills in managing oneself, teams and organisations .
  • Undertake roles in organisational management such as planning, decision-making, organising, negotiating
  • Lead team or company in motivating, mentoring, monitoring and influencing.
  • Hone managerial skills and excel in individual and team projects


MODULE 2
FINANCIAL ANALYSIS & VALUATION

PROGRAM DETAILS
Programme Code: FIN5016
Medium of instructions: English

The course is designed to improve the candidates’ financial knowledge to make informed business decision and to enhance business perfomance in a competitive environment. The course covers topics that will enable one to analyse company financials and make recommendations to matters related to cost-management, capital expenditure and valuation.

Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, the candidates should be able to:

  • Analyze financial statement to draw comprehensive understanding of company performance and identify a basis for reasonable valuation estimates.
  • To make critical business decisions by leveraging on financial and non-financial information and a wide range of analytical tools
  • Explain valuation concepts and techniques to make value-creating investment decisions.
  • Understand fundamental issues in accounting and finance including value-based management and merger and acquisitions.


MODULE 3
ETHICS & GOVERNANCE

PROGRAM DETAILS
Programme Code: MGT5020
Medium of instructions: English

This course introduces the relationship between effective governance framework with ethics and professionalism in enhancing competencies of directors and managers in ensuring effectiveness of corporate strategies and operation.

Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course students should be able to:

  • Describe the relationship between leadership, governance and social responsibility of corporations.
  • Understand the relationship between internal and external ethical and non- ethical values and environments with corporate behaviour and business conduct.
  • Illustrate commonalities and differences between secular ethical perspectives and government or community social goals
  • Identify governance cases and recommend alternatives.


MODULE 4
MARKETING MANAGEMENT & STRATEGY

PROGRAM DETAILS
Programme Code: MGT5123
Medium of instructions: English

This course provides students with a sufficient grounding in the core disciplines of marketing strategy development and how to apply them. Candidates in this course are exposed to concepts and tools of strategic marketing. This course equips students with the practical concepts and tools for analyzing market opportunities and company capabilities to develop marketing strategies that guide market selection, development of customer value proposition, and the use of innovation and digital marketing for brand positioning and communication.

Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course students should be able to:

  • Explain the key concepts, tools and skills in strategic marketing management.
  • Conduct situation analysis to assess market opportunities with reference to the marketing mix.
  • Develop a marketing strategy (market segmentation, targeting, and positioning) and to convincingly communicate its rationale and recommendations.
  • Develop an effective marketing plan to promote succesfully a company’s products and/or service.


MODULE 5
ENTREPRENEURSHIP & INNOVATIONS

PROGRAM DETAILS:
Programme Code: MGT5126
Medium of instructions: English

Entrepreneural vision has led to the majority of advancements over the last decade. This course discusses the evolution and dimensions of entrepreneurship as they advance into start-ups and how they recognise opportunity. Beyond the creativity and ideation, the course covers execution including financing ventures and using sustainable business practice to maximise profits.

Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course students should be able to:

  • Analyze the concepts and key theories relating to entrepreneurship and innovation.
  • Examine successful and unsuccessful examples of entrepreneurship from a range of perspectives including small business, technology start-up and large organisations.
  • Articulate how to manage creativity and innovation in an organisational context.
  • Demonstrate an understanding of issues, developments and approaches for utilising technology/innovation as a solution for a business problem/opportunity.


MODULE 6
BUSINESS STRATEGY & POLICY

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Programme Code: MGT5139
Medium of instructions: English

This course provides students with a sufficient grounding in the core disciplines of business strategy development and how to apply them. Students examine the strategic concepts and tools that facilitate understanding of the challenges and opportunities of the business environment, strategy formulation, implementation and evaluation. This course equips students with the practical concepts and tools for analyzing organizational strength and weaknesses as well as market opportunities and threats.

Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course students should be able to:

  • Effectively communicate business ideas and strategies to the management level in an organization. Develop an in-depth knowledge about the dynamic nature of business and the role of strategy in generating and sustaining competitive advantage.
  • Adapt appropriate tools, theories and concepts to analyse strategic issues in organization and to develop options for implementation.
  • Propose a credible business analysis in a team setting.


MODULE 7
SUSTAINABILITY MANAGEMENT & INVESTMENT

PROGRAM DETAILS
Programme Code: MGT5213
Medium of instructions: English

The course is designed to prepare the students in the field of sustainability management and investment. The main focus of the course is to provide a strong understanding on the sustainability concepts and how firms can integrate the its practices in their business decision. The course will also expose the students to cutting-edge policy that can help firms to comply or support sustainability agenda.

Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course students should be able to:

  • Apply economic concepts to sustainability management and corporate policy issues and describe some ethical concerns with regard to current sustainable economic development.
  • Describe recent sustainable innovations, green technologies and technical change in the green economy.
  • Provide an understanding of how responsible investing have become financially material to the global banking system, risk management practices and capital markets.
  • Explain the roles of sutainability reporting on sustainability management and investment decisions.


MODULE 8
MANAGING CHANGE

PROGRAM DETAILS
Programme Code: MGT5224
Medium of instructions: English

Managers must have a deep understanding of how innovation works, and how people interact with changed circumstances. Implementation of new ideas, new strategies and new technology is one of the most complex of any organization’s tasks. This course introduces the student to the perspective of innovation and change in global business. It highlights the tools and techniques necessary to ensure success when bringing new processes and different strategies into an organization operating in the international business environment.

Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course the students will be able to:

  • Understand critically a range of theories and practices of change management.
  • Appreciate the complexities and challenges inherent in planning and managing organizational change.
  • Apply organizational change practices in different circumstances.
  • Discuss how to evaluate change using the organization development method. Be familiar with the nature of innovation and how to implement it.
  • Research, identify, organize and present relevant materials and arguments in a range of modes


MODULE 9
INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY

PROGRAM DETAILS
Programme Code: MGT5312
Medium of instructions: English

The course is aimed at introducing students to the project management culture using information and communication technology (ICT) as a new paradigm for getting organized in the organization. It provides both a theoretical and practical overview of project management as it relates to technology-oriented projects. The course exposes the student to project management principles, techniques and tools that are used to guide traditional business-oriented ICT projects, as well as those adaptations that are designed to support the development of more creative ICT projects. A set of project outputs that are based on best-practice and industry standards will be developed by students, as a training tool in preparation for undertaking real ICT-oriented projects.

Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course the students will be able to:

  • Identify desirable characteristics of effective project managers.
  • Apply business and organizational principles and techniques to utilize the appropriate roles and responsibilities of the ICT project team.
  • Forecast time, resource, and budgeting requirements for a project to coordinate the work within a project team and meet project objectives.
  • Define customer and business requirements to identify project scope and evaluate methods for minimizing and managing scope of works.


MODULE 10
OPERATIONS AND SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT

PROGRAM DETAILS:
Programme Code: MGT5315
Medium of instructions: English

This course addresses basic concepts and strategies adopted in the SCM. The primary focus is to develop a good understanding of strategic, tactical and operational issues of SCM and become familiar with the integration of various SCM entities. Topics include: supply chain strategy, e-procurement, supply chain risk management, supply chain coordination & integration, value of information (sharing), global SCM, customer value and SCM, dynamic pricing, coordinated product design chain and SC, supply chain performance measures, apply analytical methodologies through EXCEL in planning demand and supply in a supply chain and the role of transportation and evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of different modes of transportation.

Learning outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course the student will be able to:

  • Understand supply chain planning and management in the global market.
  • Integrate various supply chain management entities in an organization.
  • Plan and manage an integrated supply chain activity in an organization.
  • Monitor and evaluate an integrated supply chain function in an organization.