Master of Business Administration (MBA) at the University of Roehampton London - UAE Campus

This module provides students with a key set of strategy and business improvement tools. The module is aimed at providing you with a thorough understanding of the practical application of these tools. Many of the classic business tools such as PESTLE and Boston Box are included. Additionally, key tools related to business improvement such as benchmarking and the Balanced Scorecard are evaluated. Throughout the course, we shall critically evaluate the different tools to ensure that students are aware of their relative strengths and weaknesses. These include Value Chain, VRIO, CAGE, Yip's drivers for internationalisation, TOWS, SAFe and many more. We also examine the changing environment for businesses and consider the role of Ecosystems, and also Alliances as a form of growth strategy.

The module is aimed at providing you with a thorough understanding of the practical application of the most important strategy and business improvement tools. Many of the classic business tools such as PESTLE and Boston Box are included. Additionally, key tools related to business improvement such as Benchmarking and the Balanced Scorecard are evaluated. Throughout the course, we shall critically evaluate the different tools to ensure that students are aware of their relative strengths and weaknesses. These include Value Chain, VRIO, CAGE, Yip's drivers for internationalisation, TOWS, SAFe and many more. We also examine the changing environment for businesses and consider the role of Ecosystems, and also Alliances as a form of growth strategy.

Mastering project management is crucial to organisations in the 21st century. Recognising the importance of both tools and techniques as well as human and organisational factors in achieving project success, the module enables students to learn the 'hard' science essential for project managers today, but with the crucial emphasis on the soft skills involved in people- and change-management to help achieve delivery of successful projects.
Through extensive case study analysis, and with insight from current research, you will evaluate the role of the project manager in today's workplace and critically review the rise of the project-centric organisation in a global context. Relating theory to practical reality in the light of the current research, you will understand new best practice in project management and how it impacts organisations seeking to run effective projects, both locally and across international borders.

This module will enable students to gain knowledge and understanding of methodologies in problem solving and researching that will support the student in their current studies and in their future careers as managers. The module is designed to provide a strong framework that will enable the student to develop problem solving capabilities and to also develop a research proposal for the Applied Research or Consultancy Project. The orientation of the module is towards building confidence in the students to face the uncertainties of modern business life by providing a means of managing problems: analysing and critiquing problems, using critical thinking, researching and presenting recommendations to an executive audience.

The student will gain a familiarity with the breadth and depth of available research methodologies. They will achieve an understanding of the challenges of research in practice: accumulating high quality information that can be fed into decision-making for managers. Methods for developing a research design will be considered, techniques for critiquing the quality and suitability of research will be examined. Ethical considerations connected with researching will also be included in the module.

This module provides students with an opportunity to work on an identified business problem, to critique the problem and to provide a theory-driven solution. The purpose of this module is to provide a means for applying knowledge and theory to real-world problems. The focus of the project could be directed at a specific organisation that will be carried out on a consultancy basis. In other cases, the student will be carried out as applied research focused on addressing specific business problems facing businesses.

The aim of this module is to develop highly employable postgraduates capable of professional practice roles either as external or internal consultants. This is achieved by applying marketing expertise as a 'change agent '. This requires highly developed client facing and intra team interpersonal skills and the self-awareness to become a self-managing professional practitioner. A key element of professional development is a client consultancy project.
The module introduces students to models of consultancy practice and key stages in the consultancy cycle. This is also underpinned by sessions on client engagement, communication and presentation skills; data gathering and analysis; project management and team management, The module is underpinned by key theoretical principles of: Action Learning, Group Dynamics, Authentic Human Consulting and Personal Reflection.

This module provides you with an in-depth, critical understanding of how international companies design and implement marketing strategies to create customer value and competitive advantage in the context of increasingly sophisticated and demanding consumers, the digital revolution and globalisation. There will be a particular focus on product innovation and services marketing. This is an enabling module that through a combination of lectures, seminar activities, group work and group discussions will encourage you to apply key marketing concepts and techniques including market orientation, segmentation, targeting and positioning and the marketing mix to real-life situations of international companies operating in the global arena and to put forward and test your own individual, innovative, strategic marketing solutions.

In order to thrive in an increasing competitive and global environment an organization must pay attention to its continual effectiveness and development. An underlying feature of the successful organization is its ability to adapt to change. Change can be driven by a number of different forces, including customers, markets and technology. Yet research shows that most change initiatives fail to accomplish their intended outcomes and may even limit the potential of an organization and its people. The consequences of not managing change effectively can be devastating and long lasting, so it's important that managers ensure they have the skills, knowledge and credibility within their organization to be champions of change. Managers have a clear role and responsibility to ensure that issues like employee voice, individual and cultural differences as well as skills development are appropriately and effectively addressed as part of change management.

This module provides you with a critical understanding of the sources and uses of finance for organisations operating in a domestic or international context and focuses on the management of financial and other resources to optimise organisational performance. You will explore the use of accounting, budgetary and other information systems in managerial planning, decision-making and control. You will learn to apply appropriate analytical tools and techniques, such as the balanced scorecard, key performance indicators, cost-volume-profit analysis and budget variance analysis. Through the lectures, relevant reading and seminar activities you will be introduced to the theory and practice of performance management and control. The role of budgets and budgetary control are critically evaluated and alternatives beyond budgeting are explored to ensure the organisation's strategic goals are achieved. Through the learning and assessment strategy, you will incorporate the thinking behind integrated reporting, which acknowledges non-financial forms of capital such as human, intellectual, social and natural capital, as well as financial capital into your construction of a balanced scorecard.

The Professional Development Programme is an additional co-curricular non-credit bearing module. It is designed specifically to enhance your professional skills and build your confidence using advanced presentation skills, critical writing and research skills. During the course of the module, you will get the opportunity to practice your negotiation skills, enhance the credibility of your arguments and ensure academic integrity.

This is a required module and students will be asked to register their interest via an application form once they have started their degree.

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The module examines the theory and practice of global brand management. It develops your critical understanding of the nature and meaning of brands, as well as the different perspectives in brand management. The module also provides you with the fundamental tools to build and manage a brand successfully, considers different types of decisions involved in managing brands, and discusses challenges and opportunities in a globalised, technology-intensive society. To do so, the module draws from real-world brands, discusses exemplar case studies from a range of countries and industries, and offers field trips.

Roehampton Business School is offering to all its PG students an innovative and ambitious Global Leadership Programme alongside their PG awards. The programme runs in parallel with the taught modules and it is complementary to them.

If you hold an offer for a place on one of the Roehampton Business Schools Postgraduate programmes, you are expected to complete the Pre-Induction programme before you commence your studies with us. Participation on the pre-induction programme will be monitored.

This is an online programme, which will provide you with a broad understanding and knowledge of business and management and prepare you for a successful learning journey with us. It will help you ensure that you hit the ground running at the start of your chosen postgraduate programme.

Through the Pre-Induction Programme you will gain a broad understanding of business, how a business is organised and how it operates in the context of a complex external environment. The programme will also help you to develop a better understanding of effective business communication.

We want you to succeed in your learning and assessment and we believe that this module will help us assist and support you. Welcome to Roehampton Business School.