MBA/PgDip/PgCert Master of Business Administration
Part-time
Location • City Campus
Subject area • Business and management
Related subjects • Master of Business Administration – MBA
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Postgraduate certificate
Strategic management in action
This module introduces you to the nature of the strategic challenges facing organisations in complex and global markets. It provides a thorough grounding in the essential challenges, qualities, components, principles and practices for strategy, and provides a fundamental framework to integrate other elements of the course.
Managing people and organisations
This module provides an essential and critical perspective of organisational theory and its influence on human resource management issues. It develops your knowledge and equips you with the skills to improve your organisation’s effectiveness and your own people management capabilities.
Finance
You learn the skills to make financial decisions at a strategic level and apply appropriate performance measurement systems to the strategic management process.
Strategic marketing planning
You focus upon the nature and importance of marketing strategy in fast moving markets. You look at how an organisation’s competitive advantage might be developed and exploited in a cost effective manner through the planning process. This equips you with the skills and mindset required to manage marketing strategically in a global context.
Postgraduate diploma
Innovation in the digital enterprise
You explore the current and emerging technologies, standards and infrastructures that provide the opportunity for new business models which generate revenue and reduce costs.
Leadership and strategies for change
Providing a critical perspective of leadership theory and its influence on change management issues, this module encourages you to develop a personal approach to leadership and change through a critical understanding of the way in which organisations are developed and managed, and the implications of this for leadership behaviour.
Enterprise and innovation
You evaluate the latest ideas in management and organisations and analyse the implications of these ideas for the future of organisations in general and for a specific organisation. You gain an understanding of how management research is actually practised, and its contribution to organisational theory.
Global business
This module provides you with a thorough understanding of the international business environment and the impact that globalisation is having on organisations and their management.
MBA
Business research methods
This module enables you to understand and evaluate the issues involved in developing and undertaking assignment research and writing activities. You develop skills in learning, research, communication, reflective practice and analysis. You learn how to use the selected approaches and techniques in your own assignment work.
Dissertation
Masters level study requires you to demonstrate the ability to sustain an argument, supported by evaluated evidence offering new insights or hypotheses. This module gives you the opportunity to produce work which meets these criteria by exploring a practical business issue in the form of a dissertation.
Part-time block learning, typically over three years
Starts February
You study four modules a year over the first two years, each lasting between three and four days.
Complete the application form available at www.shu.ac.uk/study/form
2013/14 academic year
Typically £4,075 a year
The course fee may be subject to annual inflationary increase. For further information on fees and funding see www.shu.ac.uk/funding
2013/14 academic year
Typically £4,500 a year
2014/15 academic year
Typically £4,500 a year
The course fee may be subject to annual inflationary increase. For further information on fees, scholarships and bursaries see www.shu.ac.uk/international/fees
• written assignments • group projects • dissertation for MBA stage
You study with people from a range of organisations and professions but with similar ambitions.
David Stone
Master of Business Administration Part-time
Why did you choose to study for your MBA at Sheffield Hallam University?
`After many years in various industries, I found myself unemployed the year before my 40th birthday. Having left school at 16 with very few qualifications, I had a flash of inspiration and decided to go to university. I studied business full-time at Sheffield Hallam, graduating in 2005. I continued to study part-time and completed a Professional Postgraduate Diploma in Marketing from the Chartered Institute of Marketing in 2006.
Shortly afterwards, I found myself working in an organisation where everybody had a masters degree or PhD. I realised that to progress, I would need to continue studying. I wanted something that would allow me to continue the range of subject in my first degree. So I looked around at what was on offer in terms of modes of study and cost and found Sheffield Hallam University. The deciding factors were that I was familiar with the location, the studying fitted around my schedule, and because I was a self-funder and a previous Sheffield Hallam student, I got 10% discount.
What skills did you develop on your course that you use in your current role?
The MBA developed my skills in critical thinking. The course also taught me how to recognise models of behaviour in organisational contexts and relate them to academic theory. This gives me a better insight and understanding of strategic options in order to achieve the desired objectives.
How has your career progressed since studying the MBA?
I joined a small consultancy, working on central policy as well as at regional and local levels across the NHS. I built up my practice area into the largest of its kind in England. In April 2012, I started my own consultancy, allowing me to build a private income stream so I can return to further study.'
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David Stone
Master of Business Administration Part-time
