incorporating
Postgraduate Certificate in International Management or
Postgraduate Certificate in International Marketing
Postgraduate Diploma in International Management
International MBA
Contents
International MBA Programme Guide
Rationale - An Executive in a Global Context
A rapidly changing workplace and internationalisation call for new effectiveness and ways to work. The effective leader will have developed his/her new skills and talents for managing organisational transformation, technological challenges, decentralisation and dynamic team configurations, amongst other things, while balancing accountability and honouring diversity and work/life integration.
Leadership Competency Definitions
Technology, competition, changing attitudes and values, and an influx of brilliant and innovative entry-level personnel are changing the way organisation operate. The command-and-control methods of the last century are extremely inefficient in fast changing environments. There is a need for new attitudes. Motivating environments are needed on the front line, people who assume responsibility and exercise leadership. To attract and keep this type of person, the work environment must inspire and exploit employee capabilities.
Therefore, an International MBA Programme in action concerns, include:
Company's Distinctive Personality - This is the future... Strong company personalities attract and repel certain types of individuals. This is a result of company's policies, practices, or priorities. Company personality is built and maintained by combining motivation, opportunity, and creating a desire to learn. The results... A super motivated environment.
Motivation Management - Leaders must have coaching skills, not control skills. Motivated people have goals and seek ways to achieve them. Efficiency is the result of motivated employees.
Continuous Learning Opportunity - Motivation is associated with the desire to learn. There needs to be growth opportunity, without it motivation dies.
The Self-Motivating Work Force - Employees assuming responsibility for their tasks without supervision. An environment where workers trust management and management trust workers.
The Self-Educating Work Force - With fast changing technology, the only way to acquire new skills that stays ahead of the competition is through self-education and team-education. Knowledge must be acquired as it comes into the marketplace from its source. Educational institutions offer advance technology courses only when there is a demand for it. By that time much of its competitive value is gone.
Narrow Knowledge Gap - Most businesses operate with a wide knowledge gap between worker and management. All through history this has been the policy, it is job security for leadership. Today, efficiency requires workers to assume responsibility and this requires the narrowing of the knowledge gap. This is achieved by empowering workers.
Overview
The programme is available in three related courses: Postgraduate Certificate in International Management, Postgraduate Certificate in International Marketing, Postgraduate Diploma in International Management and International MBA. Students may select to study each part according to his/her own requirements and individual circumstance. Successful completion of all three courses is required for the award of the International MBA Degree.
Teaching and Learning Strategy of all courses could be based on Action Learning principles which is an innovative method capable of achieving unprecedented results. It enables effective self-directed as well as campus/distance learning, and workplace-based study.
The focus of the programme will always be towards practical problem-solving and senior management development within his/her own environment.
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Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of the Programme, course members will have well developed,
| 1 | a demonstrable ability to adapt and implement contemporary management concepts and theories into practice, within a group or organisational environment.
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| 4 | skills to integrate knowledge from the various disciplines and use this knowledge to manage the diversity that is inherent in the international business environment by
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| 5 | their understanding of application of technology to specific business needs and its potential strategic impact on the broader business environment. |
Teaching and Learning Resources
- Learning Contents
- Learning Environment
- Management of Learning
- Learner Support
- Teaching and Learning Strategies
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Induction Workshop
- Leadership
Experience
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Our 3-day induction workshop programme is designed to help the participants to develop an understanding of theory while acquiring the necessary skills and insights to become effective leaders in their field. The Leadership Experience text used for the workshop integrates recent ideas and practices with established scholarly research in a way that makes the topic of leadership come alive.
One requirement for leaders and managers in the world today is crisis management. Product defects, shootings, or terrorism can endanger employees or customers. Hear the author of The Leadership Experience discuss this topic here.
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The
Leadership Experience 3rd Edition Richard L. Daft - Vanderbilt University 0324261276 566 pages Paper Bound 7 1/2 x 9 © 2005 Check the availability and buy your books from our Bookshop. |
Core Courses and Modules
Postgraduate Certificate in International Management
- Accounting and Finance
- Global Marketing Management
- International Financial Management
- Introduction to Institutions, Investments, and Management
- Operations Management and Strategy
Postgraduate Diploma in International Management
- International Business Management
- International Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour
- Multinational Management
- Business Analysis
- International Strategic Management
International MBA Optional Course and Modules
- American Business and Management
- Asian Business
- Contemporary Management
- European Business
- Human Resource Management and Development
- International Economics
- Macroeconomics
- Managerial Economics
- Management Information Systems
Postgraduate Certificate in International Marketing Options
- American Business and Management
- Business Asia
- Contemporary Management
- European Business
- Human Resource Management and Development
- International Economics
- Leadership Competency Definitions
- Macroeconomics
- Microeconomics
- Managerial Economics
- Management Information Systems
- Principles of Marketing
- Global Marketing Management
- Decision Making and Analysis
- Marketing Strategy
- Marketing Principles and Best Practices
- Marketing Research
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Research Workshops
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Global Marketing Management
Globalization (or globalisation), is an umbrella term for a complex series of economic, social, technological and political changes that have been identified since the 1980s. These changes and processes are seen as increasing interdependence and interaction between people and companies in disparate locations.
Given the rapid internationalisation of business activities, understanding of global marketing is becoming a requirement for a marketing or general management career. This course is designed to introduce students to the theory, nature and practice of marketing in a global context. It addresses international marketing challenges facing companies involved in foreign activities (exports, licensing, foreign subsidiaries).
Recommended Texts
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Decision-Oriented Approach Svend Hollensen Apr
2007, Paperback, 752 pages Check
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Related Modules
International Financial Management
Financial Management at a Corporate level is an area of finance dealing with the financial decisions corporations make and the tools and analysis used to make these decisions. The primary goal of corporate finance is to enhance corporate value while reducing the firm's financial risks. Equivalently, the goal is to maximize the corporations' return to capital. Although it is in principle different from managerial finance which studies the financial decisions of all firms, rather than corporations alone, the main concepts in the study of corporate finance are applicable to the financial problems of all kinds of firms.
Recommended Texts
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International Financial Management Second Edition
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Related Modules
Introduction to Institutions, Investments, and Management
Finance is a field that studies and addresses the ways in which individuals, businesses, and organizations raise, allocate, and use monetary resources over time, taking into account the risks entailed in their projects. The term finance may thus incorporate any of the following:
- The study of money and other assets;
- The management and control of those assets;
- Profiling and managing project risks;
- The science of managing money;
- As a verb, "to finance" is to provide funds for business or for an individual's large purchases (car, home, etc.).
Recommended Texts
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Financial
Institutions, Investments, and Management - An Introduction Check
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Operations Management and Strategy
Operations also refers to the production of goods and services, the set of value-added activities that transform inputs into many outputs. Fundamentally, these value-adding creative activities should be aligned with market opportunity (see Marketing) for optimal enterprise performance.
APICS, The Association for Operations Management defines operations management as "the field of study that focuses on the effective planning, scheduling, use and control of a manufacturing or service organization through the study of concepts from design engineering, industrial engineering, management information systems, quality management, production management, inventory management, accounting, and other functions as they affect the organization" (APICS Dictionary, 11th edition).
Recommended Texts
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Operations Management: Contemporary Concepts and Cases, 2/e Roger
G. Schroeder, University of Minnesota Check the availability and buy your books from our Bookshop. |
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Value-Driven
Operations Management: An Integrated Modular Approach 1/E Check the availability and buy your books from our Bookshop. |
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Duration
The International MBA can be completed in 12 - 18 months full-time or up to 24 months part-time depending on the customised module structure offered by the study venue.
There are normally two intakes for the programme in January and September but may vary between the regions, institutions (number of modules offered, teaching resources, etc.), and the study mode (in-campus or distance learning).
A customised MBA curriculum may also be adapted to Corporate MBA with a specialism linked to the above electives.
Entry Requirements
An International MBA is available for full-time or part-time study by in-class or distance learning.
The candidates normally have a good first degree (or equivalent) in any discipline.
Candidates without this qualification may be considered but he/she must be able to demonstrate significant successful managerial, administrative or professional experience and in some countries, must complete a GMAT test with a minimum score of 550, or a valid postgraduate certificate or diploma for an Accreditation for Prior Learning or Accreditation for Experiential Learning application.
The programme is taught and examined entirely in English. Therefore, you should have an IELTS score of 6.5 or a TOEFL score of 575 (written), 231 (computer based), or equivalent. See Language Centre for further details.
Recommended Readings
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- A Roadmap for Deploying Six Sigma in Small Businesses
- Journals
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European
Management Journal See Business, Management and Accounting Books and Journals on Elsevier Business and Management.com |
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Money
on the Move: The Revolution in International Finance
since 1980 "Money on the Move is an excellent, erudite addition to the literature on modern financial history." Bimal Prodhan, The Times Higher Education Supplement
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The
Globalization Syndrome: Transformation and Resistance The Globalization Syndrome is among the first books to present a holistic and multilevel analysis of globalization, connecting the economic to the political and cultural, joining agents and multiple structures, and interrelating different local, regional, and global arenas. Mittelman's findings are drawn mainly from the non-Western worlds. He provides a cross-regional analysis of Eastern Asia, an epicentre of globalization, and Southern Africa, a key node in the most marginalized continent. The evidence shows that while offering many benefits to some, globalization has become an uneasy correlation of deep tensions, giving rise to a range of alternative scenarios. Check
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Murder
at the Margin: A Henry Spearman Mystery "Writing pseudonymously, [William Breit and Kenneth Elzinga] have created Henry Spearman, a Harvard economist (actually a "Chicago' economist affiliated with Harvard), who utilizes the economic way of thinking literally to figure out "whodunit.' If there is a more painless way to learn economic principles, scientists must have recently discovered how to implant them in ice cream."--John R. Haring, Jr., Wall Street Journal Check the availability and buy your books from our Bookshop. |
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Stuck
in Neutral: Business and the Politics of Human Capital
Investment Policy "A
vital and highly original book for all political scientists
working on business and politics or interest groups
in general. Martin shows that we cannot simply deduce
what corporations' interests or political objectives
are; in this important and original study she shows
instead that the policy goals and tactics of corporations
are themselves constructed in a complex political process.
This book is a model of how empirical research and theory
can be brought together."- Check
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Rational
Exuberance The emerging global technology sector is entering a period of significant optimism and growth — creating a wealth of new market opportunities. Yet questions still remain. Which technologies will provide the greatest opportunities? How are these opportunities best exploited? How will the global economy affect the sector’s growth prospects? To
find out, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu's Global Technology,
Media & Telecommunications (TMT) Industry Group
and the TMT practices at Deloitte member firms recently
surveyed CEOs from the Deloitte
Technology Fast 500, our annual ranking of the fastest
growing technology companies in North America, Europe,
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