Learning Outcomes:

• Critically review and analyse the importance of HRM and its practices in an organisation, and how it can be linked with organisational behaviour activities in overcoming business issues and challenges for a better performance of the organisation.
• Critically review and analyse the framework of leadership and consider the nature, strengths and weaknesses of the various approaches: traits; functional; behavioural; style; contingency. The continuum of leadership behaviour should be explored in some depth with consideration of the factors determining the chosen leadership style.
• Discuss the concept of organisational behaviour and its interface with management. Review and critically synthesize the various influences on behaviour in organisations and the interface with management in integrating and balancing these.
• Assess the role of IHRM and its impact on the global organisation. Identify some of the key HRM challenges facing organisations working internationally.
• Discuss the prevalent HRM practices and integrating the best practices in the global organisation.

Learning Outcomes:

• Know the various tools, techniques and apply suitable tools and techniques in different alternative scenarios of Operations Management.
• Apply information management techniques and evaluate them in context of operational functions to achieve competitive advantage and make the organization globally competitive.
• Apply and critically evaluate the importance of project management to given business situations (Using PERT / CPM).
• Demonstrate operations strategy in domestic and global context, and evaluate how the use of technology has impacted the operational functions.

Learning Outcomes:

• Identify and analyse the implications for managing strategic change in supporting organisational transformation.
• Analyse the organisational management challenges faced during the transformation and changes experienced by the organisation.
• Analyse and evaluate the significance of strategy employed in trying to bring about an effective change management in an organisation. How does this impact leadership and human behaviour in the organisation.
• Evaluate different change management theories propounded on management and leadership attributes which leads to enhanced contribution by managers and the employees.

Learning Outcomes:

• Analyse the changing business environment(s) globally and how they pose challenges to marketing management functions in organisations.
• Develop marketing plans with the application of appropriate marketing models, tools and techniques.
• Evaluate the processes involved in brand management and how they influence consumer behaviour.
• Evaluate the skills set needed as a creative marketer to launch new products/services in a dynamic global marketplace.

Learning Outcomes:

• Assess the numerous dimensions of sustainability requirements for businesses in the context of global challenges.
• Appraise, assess and develop strategies of organisations which will be sustainable in the long run.
• Strategic integration of business functions with sustainability processes.
• Effect of sustainability on supply chain management operations.

Learning Outcomes:

• Analyse the concepts and theories of strategic management and critically evaluate the relationship between strategy, stakeholder expectations and organizational performance.
• Evaluate the impact of current and emerging Economic, Political and Cultural factors on strategic management in an International context.
• Formulate business strategies under challenging circumstances of Innovation and Change and evaluate those that contribute to the success of a particular organization.
• Develop plans for the implementation of business strategies and enhance Stakeholder Expectations.

Indicative Syllabus:

• Dissertation is an opportunity for you to demonstrate your ability to investigate an issue of your own choice over a significant period of time. Essentially this is an individual effort but it is carried out with the guidance and advice of your supervisor. Research is a creative and investigative process which only you can develop fully.
• A supervisor/dissertation guide will be appointed to each student and the role of the supervisor is to act as a learning resource for the student. It is the student’s responsibility to make use of that opportunity, in consultation with the supervisor. The student is therefore expected to accept responsibility for the management of his/her learning.