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Executive MBA
Rationale
Executive Education (Exec.Ed) are academic programs at graduate-level business schools that are aimed at managers or entrepreneurs.
These programs do not usually end in a degree, although there is an ever-growing number of Executive MBA programs that are very similar but bestow the Master of Business Administration upon completion of the coursework. A new trend is for business schools to offer a certificate and alumni status for completing a certain number of executive education units, such as Columbia Business School's Certificate in Business Excellence (CIBE)[1] and the Advanced Certificate for Executives in Management, Innovation and Technology from the MIT Sloan School of Management [2]. Executive education programs are seen as a boon to both the school (as it usually comes with a hefty price tag in the form of tuition and fees) and the younger, traditional MBA students. The alumni network of the business school is bolstered by the ranks of these high executives, who can help the younger MBAs with finding jobs.
Estimates by Business Week magazine suggest that executive education in the United States is approximately an $800 million per year business, roughly 80% of which is provided by universities (mostly business schools). The fastest growing segment of the market is so-called "customized" programs, which are tailored for and offered to executives of a single company (as opposed to "open enrolment" programs).
- Business education
- Business school
- List of business schools per country
- Corporate Education
- Executive development
- Executive MBA
- Leadership development
- Organisational development
- Notes and references
Executive MBA (EMBA) programs developed to meet the educational needs of managers and executives, allowing students to earn an MBA or another business-related graduate degree in two years or less while working full time. Participants come from every type and size of organization profit, nonprofit, government representing a variety of industries. EMBA students typically have a higher level of work experience, often 10 years or more, compared to other MBA students. In response to the increasing number of EMBA programs offered, The Executive MBA Council was formed in 1981 to advance executive education.
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 Executive MBA Programme in action concerns:
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.
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Overview
The programme is offered in three separate courses: Postgraduate Certificate in Management, Postgraduate Diploma and Executive 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 Executive MBA Degree.
Teaching and Learning Strategy of all courses is based on Action Learning principles which is an innovative method capable of achieving unprecedented results. It enables effective self-directed as well as campus/workplace-based study. The focus of the programme will always be towards practical problem-solving and senior management development within his/her own environment.
Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of the Programme, course members will have well developed,
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Teaching and Learning Resources
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The 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. Please Note: QuickTime is required to view the video clips.
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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 Management
- Global Marketing Management
- Economics of Organisations and Strategy
- International Financial Management
- Management Advantage
Postgraduate Diploma in Management
- Corporate Finance
- International Business Management
- International Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour
- Operations Management and Strategy
Optional Modules
- Business Analysis
- Business Ethics
- Contemporary Management Issues
- Electronic Business Management
- eBusiness
- Entrepreneurship Today
- Human Resource Management and Development
- Innovation and New Product Development
- International Business Law
- Leadership Competency Definitions
- Management Information Systems
- Organisational Development and Change
- Multinational Management
Executive MBA
- Decision Making and Analysis
- International Strategic Management
- Project Management and Research Methodology
- Research Methods
- Management Application Project
- MBA Assignments and Examinations
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Research Workshops
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Global Marketing Management
The course is designed to provide students with an understanding of the key concepts of marketing management and experience in making marketing decisions generally and in an international business environment in particular. Specifically, the course will cover issues relating to the philosophy of marketing, developing international marketing strategy, and planning marketing tactics (product, pricing, communications, distribution strategy and marketing research).
This treatment will be largely from a practical perspective with the emphasis being on improving the managerial decision-making process in marketing.
Related Modules
Recommended Texts
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The
Oxford Textbook of Marketing The Oxford Textbook of Marketing is a truly international textbook, with contributors from seventeen different countries. Each chapter is written by an acknowledged specialist in the field. The book contains chapters on new topics such as : the marketing mix, relationship marketing, direct marketing, the economic environment, and marketing's interface with other departments. It is packed with learning aids, including chapter objectives, further reading recommendations, key terms, links to other chapters, extensive case material, and a thorough glossary. Edited into an integrated whole by Keith Blois, this text combines subject expertise, substantial learning aids and modern presentation, giving a detailed overview of the discipline at the turn of the century. See Slideshow here (zip file) Check the availability and buy your books from our Bookshop
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Contemporary
Advertising,
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Economics of Organisations and Strategy
An Organization or Organisation (read more about -ize vs -ise) is a formal group of people with one or more shared goals. The word itself is derived from the Greek word ργανον (organon) meaning tool. The term is used in both daily and scientific English in multiple ways.
In the social sciences, organizations are studied by researchers from several disciplines. Most commonly in sociology, economics, political science, psychology, and management. The broad area is commonly referred to as organisational studies, organisational behaviour or organization analysis. Therefore, a number of different theories and perspectives exist , some of which are compatible, and others that are competing.
- Economics of Organisations and Strategy
- Business Law
- Industrial Organization
- Managerial Economics and Organisational Architecture
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The Economics of Organisations and Strategy Séan Rickard Check the availability and buy your books from our Bookshop |
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Industrial Economics and Organization: A European Perspective, 2/e Bernadette Andreosso Check the availability and buy your books from our Bookshop |
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Managerial Economics and Organisational Architecture, 3/e James Brickley, University of Rochester Check the availability and buy your books from our Bookshop |
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Strategy:
Analysis and Practice
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International Financial Management
International Finance is the branch of economics that studies the dynamics of exchange rates, foreign investment, and how these affect international trade.
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.
Related Modules
- International Financial Management
- Accounting and Finance
- Auditing
- Corporate Finance
- Financial Management
- International Economics
- International Financial Markets
- Multinational Management
- Principles of Economics
- Economics of the Welfare State
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International Financial Management Cheol S. Eun, Georgia Institute of Technology Check the availability and buy your books from our Bookshop |
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International Financial Management, 2e Eun and Resnick Check the availability and buy your books from our Bookshop |
Management Advantage
In for-profit organisations, the primary function of management working in competitive, diverse business environments, is to satisfy a range of stakeholders. This typically involves making a profit (for the shareholders), creating valued products at a reasonable cost (for customers), and providing rewarding employment opportunities (for employees). In nonprofit work it is also important to keep the faith of donors.
In most models of management, shareholders vote for the board of directors, and that board then hires senior management. Some organizations are experimenting with other methods (such as employee voting models) of selecting or reviewing managers/senior managers but this is very rare.
This course focuses on the 21st Century management issues.
Related Modules
- Management Advantage
- Managerial Competence
- Managerial Decision Making Process
- Organisations and Their Environments
- People and Organisations
Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance is a specific area of finance dealing with the financial decisions corporations make and the tools as well as analyses used to make these decisions.
The discipline as a whole may be divided among long-term and short-term decisions and techniques with the primary goal being the enhancing of corporate value by ensuring that return on capital exceeds cost of capital, without taking excessive financial risks. Capital investment decisions comprise the long-term choices about which projects receive investment, whether to finance that investment with equity or debt, and when or whether to pay dividends to shareholders. Short-term corporate finance decisions are called working capital management and deal with balance of current assets and current liabilities by managing cash, inventories, and short-term borrowing and lending (e.g., the credit terms extended to customers).
Related Modules
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Corporate
Finance: Core Principles and Applications Stephen A. Ross, Massachusetts Institute of Technology ISBN: 007353059x Check the availability and buy your books from our Bookshop |
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Principles
of Corporate Finance,
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Project Management and Research Methodology
The goal of the research process is to produce new knowledge, which takes three main forms:
- Exploratory research, which structures and identifies new problems
- Constructive research, which develops solutions to a problem
- Empirical research, which tests the feasibility of a solution using empirical evidence
As discussed in the previous section, these forms are not clear-cut.
Research can also fall into two distinct types:
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Cooper,
Donald R Schindler,
Pamela S.
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Duration
The Executive MBA can be completed in 18 - 24 months part time. There are normally two intakes to the programme in January and September but may vary between the regions, institutions (number of modules offered, teaching resources), and the study more (in-campus or distance learning).
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 specialism linked to the above electives.
Entry Requirements
An Executive MBA is available for working student only.
Students wishing to study on a full-time basis should consider the International MBA here.
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 Introductory Readings
- Adams Six Sigma
- Six Sigma - What is Six Sigma?
- Six Sigma: DMAIC; Y=f(x)
- A Roadmap for Deploying Six Sigma in Small Businesses
- Journals
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European
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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 the availability and buy your books from our Bookshop |
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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 the availability and buy your books from our Bookshop |
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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, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) and Asia Pacific. Attachments
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