MSc Management with Project Management

This module provides you with opportunities to develop a conceptual and theoretical background in leadership, and to develop leadership competencies in yourselves and others. It covers areas such as leadership style, followership, ethical and responsible leadership, gender and leadership, and cross-cultural leadership. Over the course of this module, you can gain an in-depth understanding and appreciation of the impact interpersonal skills have on leadership effectiveness. With an applied focus, the module requires you to reflect on and apply theories and techniques to your personal real-world context in order to enhance your leadership practice.

This module offers you a foundation in the theory and best practice of project management and explores the practical skills of how to plan, implement and control projects. It examines the system perspective on management and takes a practically-oriented overview of the nature and purpose of project management and its key functions, including scope, time, cost and quality. The role and qualities of the Project Manager and the composition of the team are also examined. The material and approach in the module incorporates worldwide best practices from major professional bodies: the PMI Body of Knowledge, APM Body of Knowledge and PRINCE2.

It is focused on transferable skills for boosting your professional development and employability: practical problem solving and decision making in conditions of uncertainty and ambiguity; planning capability; and adaptability to work in different contexts – attributes highly valued by employers.

This module is designed to deepen the understanding of traditional project management tools and techniques, whilst challenging their validity and proposing a number of alternative paradigms, methodologies and more sophisticated methods to better account for the dynamics, complexity, uncertainty and variability of the project environment. PM governance, portfolio and programme management within organisations are also core themes. The material in the module encompasses worldwide best practices from major professional bodies: the PMI Body of Knowledge, APM Body of Knowledge and PRINCE2. The syllabus will help you to obtain all the necessary knowledge and skills required for a successful career in project management.

This module provides you with the opportunity to explore relevant theory and practice in the areas of project risk, procurement and contract management. The impact of risk on projects and the ways that risk is managed is examined. Methods of assessment, mitigation and monitoring to manage the project to a successful completion are also covered.

An assumed multi-disciplinary approach, covering risk and legal perspectives, gives you the opportunity to construct a framework for improving management action and professional practice in any project environment. In terms of contract law, the module programme introduces the legal issues and risks involved in the negotiation, formation and management of procurement contracts, and elaborates on available techniques to ensure effective contract risk allocation and how to protect a project delivery team from unexpected liability claims.

This module is designed to provide you with the skills to be effective when working as part of a global project team. It is specifically focused on providing an awareness of how technology affects communication and collaboration in organisations. You are given the opportunity to work as part of a small virtual team on a group project. This enables you to experience first-hand the challenges related to dispersed working and technology-mediated communication and to develop practical strategies for effective dispersed collaboration. You are given the opportunity to evaluate your individual and team performance on the project and to reflect on your own leadership, teamwork and project management skills.

This module is designed to prepare you to critically analyse financial statements for single and group companies, develop understanding how financial statements are prepared, and learn to consider compliance with legal and regulatory requirements and the relevant International Accounting Standards.

The module aims to equip you with the knowledge and skills necessary to understand corporate financial performance and the relevance of accounting information, including the implications for the organisation, stakeholders and for effective corporate governance. It considers the different types of decisions that managers are required to make, and considers how financial and management accounting information can be used in support of these decisions.

This module is designed to equip you with crucial knowledge and strategy making skills to enable you to contribute to responsible and successful business strategies and give your organisation a competitive advantage. You can develop the knowledge and professional expertise on: the formation, implementation and analysis of business strategies; making appropriate choices between strategic options; and following a strategic route that will deliver results that are robust, ethically sound and socially responsible.

Business now competes on a global stage where marketers can do much more with small budgets, shrinking the historic chasm between SMEs and large enterprise. Creative marketing that grabs the attention of the ever-changing needs of the consumer takes careful planning. International Marketing Planning provides you with the fundamental building blocks to manage an organisation’s marketing function. By establishing an organisation’s current market position, unpacking their value offering to consumers and formulating a plan to meet strategic marketing objectives, the marketing planning process provides a creative framework to drive organisational success.

The Professional Inquiry Project allows you to demonstrate your understanding of management within the field of your degree. It is an individual and independent project in which you can bring together and apply your learning from the programme to help to solve a chosen business problem or challenge, a real-world issue or a research topic. Through bringing together learning from across your degree programme, you can demonstrate your knowledge and understanding of management within your field and its application to organisations.