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MBA - Supply Chain Management

Leading Organisation

Programme Objectives

The programme aims to provide graduates and working professional who desire of becoming successful consultants in the competitive consulting industry, with first-hand knowledge of the tools and techniques used by successful consultants in the competitive management consulting industry. They will get a detailed understanding of the global consulting industry; how it works, its dominant players, key success factors and the management issues that drive it.

The MBA - Management Consultancy is a specialist high value Professional Masters Degree developed in collaboration with the International Professional Managers Association-UK, in consultation with the West Africa Federation of Institutes of Administration & Management Consultants, thus giving the degree the critically important professional flavour that is often lacking in many academic qualifications of its nature.

Benefits

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

  1. Develop a business strategy through their understanding of
    • Management Processes
    • Management Functions
    • Strategic Management
    • Individual Behaviour
    • Group Behaviour
  2. Develop analytical and critical skills to evaluate new concepts, techniques and arguments in organisational and project management
  3. Develop research skills to advise clients to improve their business and management effectiveness
  4. Develop communication skills to explain and justify range of options devised for the benefit of their clients
  5. Advise clients on restructuring and improving business performance
  6. Exercise creativity in solving management and business problems
  7. Enable the student to improve their career and entrepreneurship prospects
  8. Enable the student to have the confidence to apply knowledge and understanding to improve business practices in diverse business and cultural environments

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