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Weekend MBA |
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Financial Framework for Business Decisions
- This module is aimed at developing the student’s ability to read, understand, and use corporate financial statements as a generalist. The module is oriented towards the user of financial accounting data (rather than the maker) and emphasises the reconstruction and interpretation of economic events from the published accounting statements and reports. This module also examines the use and the preparation of cost and management data for planning, decision-making and control. The focus of this module would touch upon the immediate and short-term financial analysis with an introduction to the basics and relevance of capital budgeting.
Organisational Values and Business Ethics
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A manager’s career goals normally extend over a lifetime, and the ethical demands and opportunities will change accordingly. The objective of the module is to raise levels of awareness about ethical and value based issues at work particularly when confronted with strategic level decisions. The focus is also to sensitise them to ethical implications of some actions that are likely to encounter in business administration particularly in a complex, dynamic global environment.
Marketing Analysis for Business Decisions
- The aim of this module is to provide the fundamental knowledge and conceptual framework related to marketing. To understand and appreciate basic marketing principles relevant to a generalist in business-to-consumer (B2C) and business-to-business (B2B) marketing situations.
Organisation Dynamics and Human Resource Management
- This module addresses the management of people in organizations. Attention is given to the role of the human resource department in administering the human resource programme and equally emphasizes the role of supervisors, managers, and their superiors in the management of human resources in accordance with the objectives and policies of the organizational human resource program.
Economic Framework for Business Decisions
- This module is initially aimed at introducing the student to the basic concepts, theories and tools of microeconomic and macroeconomic analysis, which impact upon the business decision-making process. This would provide an understanding of economic principles as they are applied to decision-making about production costs, pricing, profits and risk taking in an environment of competition and interplay of market forces.
Elective module A:Strategic Marketing for Business Decisions or
- This is a strategic marketing focus module with emphasis on core marketing functions. This module develops from the foundation core module. The objectives of this module are to introduce students to the substantive and procedural aspects of marketing management and to sharpen skills for critical and analytical thinking and effective communication. The module focuses on the interaction between the process of formulating, implementing, and controlling marketing strategies and the various stages of the product life cycle.
Elective module B:Strategic Finance: Formulation, Appraisal and Control
- This module aims at providing the students with the knowledge on strategic aspects of financial management and enables them to examine the implications and consequences of long-term financial decisions having a vital bearing on the growth of business enterprises. Consequently, such strategic issues, which concern the value creation for the shareholder and determine the success of business firms, become extremely important for the managers of tomorrow. The shareholders wealth maximization is the orientation, which would govern the focus in this course. The main aim of this module is to make students appreciate the need for rising above the day-to-day short term financial focus and broaden his/her approach to long term strategic thinking and policy framework on financial issues.
Strategic Management
- The aim of this module is to introduce the basic concepts of strategic management as they apply to business and provide an integrating framework within which students can apply the concepts and tools learned in other modules. It provides frameworks that act as the overall guide to strategy formulation and help broaden the individual’s knowledge. This module extends the analysis of business level strategy to the corporate or multi-business level organisation to explore topics including diversification, synergies, mergers and acquisitions, and real options. The module also provides students with an opportunity to learn how to understand the basic process in analysing cases, and the need to understand the sophisticated and systematic analytical process for understanding the competitive forces in business systems within which firms operate.
Information Analysis for Strategic Decision Making
- Individuals at a workplace are more often than not required to interpret and use information, both qualitative and quantitative, to make business decisions. This information may be in the form of specific reports or periodic reports. This strategic focus module advances around quantitative analysis focusing on statistical analysis and decision theory. The role of information systems in providing this information will be integrated throughout the structure and presentation underlying this module.
Strategic Human Resource Management
- This module takes a functional and strategic approach to the management of human resources. At the functional level, attention is given to the role of the human resource department in creating and administering the human resource program. The strategic approach emphasizes the acquisition of knowledge and frameworks required to view, participate and monitor the HRM function from a strategic perspective.
Elective module A:International Marketing or
- This module provides students with the knowledge to manage marketing activities in an international environment. The module examines the marketing responses to the opportunities and challenges in the global marketplace, developing sustainable competitive advantage (taking into account the diversities of markets and customers in different socio-economic and cultural setting). Intricately woven is the importance of Business to Business marketing that equips students with the knowledge of practices and issues in B2B environments and their structures operating in dynamic, responsive and varying buying situations.
Elective module B:International Financial Management
- This module is being offered to students with the belief that the managers of tomorrow will have to work in a global perspective, and that they will be increasingly called upon to be familiar with the business variables having global implications. This is particularly true in the context of the firms’ financial implications as the financial markets and money movements keep acquiring greater intensity and complexity, not only nationally but also globally. The purpose of this module is therefore, to provide sophistication in evaluating global financial transactions.
International Business Environment
- International Business involves coordinating the firm’s activities in more than one nation. It involves adapting the firm’s product to the different cultures and social trends prevalent in different countries. Economic factors including standards of living, credit, and income distribution also affect the processes. The module examines the cultural, social, economic and legal issues and provides manages with skills they need to complete in today’s multicultural market place. It presents global trends, impact of cultural differences, key business skills when working with different cultures and success factors.
Organisation Development
- Organisation Development is the applied behaviour science discipline dedicated to the theory and practice of planned change. This module aims at preparing the students to enter the practice of Organisation Development by developing the students’ theoretical understanding and appreciation of the approach, along with and skills to undertake Diagnosis and Action Research component of Organisation Development.
Dissertation
- The dissertation provides an opportunity to demonstrate ability to investigate an issue over a significant period of time. The aim is to provide students with the experience of carrying out an original in-depth study, presenting results and analytical conclusions in an appropriate format conforming to a standard research approach. The dissertation is a combination of theoretical and original empirical enquiry concerning an issue in the field management. On rare occasions it is only based on a theoretical interrogation. The dissertation would be a reflection of the knowledge gained from coursework along with practical insights to data gathering and problem solving
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Students will be awarded a Post Graduate Certificate from the University of Wales, UK if they gain 60 credit points and exit the programme. They will be awarded a Post Graduate Diploma from the University of Wales, UK if they gain 120 credit points and exit the programme. When they complete the required 180 credit points, they will be awarded the MBA degree.
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Post Graduate Certificate awarded by the University of Wales, UK |
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Post Graduate Diploma awarded by the University of Wales , UK |
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Master of Business Administration from the University of Wales, UK |
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| The programme is not available to students requiring a student visa |
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A good bachelor’s degree; or, |
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Non-graduates who can demonstrate relevant and appropriate prior work experience |
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IELTS Score of 6.5 or TOEFL Score of 580 PBT/230 CBT/ 89 iBT |
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Applications must contain full documented evidence to show that minimum English/Academic standards have been achieved
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Duration: 2 years plus dissertation |
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Every February, June and October |
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London Campus in Kingsbury, North West London. Accommodation for students travelling from EU or outside of London can be arranged in advance in a local hotel. |
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| Part Time MBA Programme Fee |
| Programme Fee: £7950 |
Deposit payable on acceptance: £1950 |
Students who pay the entire fee prior to start of the programme will receive a 5% fee reduction. |
Students can pay the remaining balance in instalments as follows: |
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| Installment 1 - £1500 |
Installment 1 - £1500 |
Installment 1 - £1500 |
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| 10th December 2010 |
11th April 2011 |
8th August 2011 |
10th December 2011 |
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A range of scholarships up to £3000 towards your tuition fees is available. Please click here for details: http://www.tasmac.org.uk/scholarships.html |
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