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MBA - Finance

Leading Organisation

Programme Objectives

The programme has the following aims:

  • To enable the advanced study of organisations, their management and the changing external context in which they operate
  • Equip individuals for and/or development of a career in business and management by developing skills at a professional or equivalent level to assume senior managerial and leadership positions in business
  • Development of the ability to apply knowledge and understanding of business and management to complex issues, both systematically and creatively, to improve business and management leadership and practice.
  • Enhancement of lifelong learning and personal development so as to be able to work with self-direction and originality and to contribute to business and society at large.

Benefits

At the end of the programme the successful student will have the ability to:

  • Demonstrate critical understanding of management theories, current issues of management, the development of conceptual frameworks to guide their application within organisations.
  • Acquire a strong foundation in key functional areas of business management to enable them to succeed as effective managers/leaders in an increasingly complex and dynamic environment.
  • Acquire and use a range of concepts, tools and techniques for problem solving and decision-making for analyzing complex and inter-related business scenarios.
  • Demonstrate and apply independent research and critical skills enabling the investigation and evaluation of valid and relevant management issues and practices.
  • Demonstrate initiative, insight, attitudes of responsibility and ethical leadership in the development of the strategic management agenda in the organization the participant works in or expected to work in the future.

Programme Content

Overview

The aim of this module is to encourage the development of knowledge, understanding and skills for strategic leadership of change.  The challenges to managers/leaders seeking to lead through the use of strategic management centre on envisioning strategic directions, the development of managers and employees committed to, and equipped for, major strategic change, and the development of a high-level organisational capacity for innovation and learning.

Student centered learning will be strongly encouraged and developed. Cooperative Learning and Problem-Based Learning will be infused into the teaching-learning-assessment strategies.

Group discussion, case analysis and self directed learning resources will be available to support the delivery and the appropriate assessment tools / tasks will be used to assess the intended learning outcomes.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this module, students will be able to:

  • Analyse a strategic context of an organisation and envision necessary directions and activities.
  • Evaluate and select appropriate processes or actions for developing the potential of managers and employees for engaging in critical and strategic thinking (e.g. involvement in decision making, empowerment, information, concern, etc).
  • Evaluate opportunities and strategies for developing partnerships with other organisations to achieve strategic goals.

Syllabus

  • Shaping an organisation for strategic change.
  • Leadership attributes and credibility.
  • Leadership of change at multiple levels of the organisation.
  • Empowerment of managers.
  • Developing receptiveness to reform and innovation.
  • Handling conflict during strategic changes.
  • Networking and partnerships.
  • Ethical leadership behaviour.

Resources

  • Course Materials provided by IPE.
  • Richard l. Daft, The Leadership Experience, 10th Edition, 2009, Thomson-South Western.
  • Philip Crosby, Absolutes of Leadership 2008, John Wiley
  • WEC OCTAL Portal online resources
  • IPE’s E Library