MSc Management

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University of Glasgow

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• Objectives
  This programme aims to provide an insight and understanding of modern marketing: providing topical and practical knowledge with an emphasis on the ability to sense, shape and prepare to meet the needs of the future. It provides graduates from non-business and business related disciplines with a rapid and reliable understanding of contemporary management principles, priorities, practices and issues. It caters especially for the needs of well-qualified individuals who anticipate a management career with international or multinational corporations, and who wish to combine a rigorous and accessible academic understanding of management with applied knowledge and effective, practical insights and capabilities. You will work with a peer group of like-minded students at a similar stage in their management development, and with complementary interests and ambitions. Academic contributors and researchers aim to provide an engaged and stimulating learning experience, with staff and students coming together in a vibrant postgraduate community.
• Entry requirements
  Entry requirements Good Honours degree in business and management or equivalent (including engineering or science graduates provided business subjects are included in degree study); prior work experience is encouraged but not required.
• Academic title
  MSc Management
• Course description
  
  Content
  
  Core courses:
  
      * Management decision making
      * Financial information management
      * People in organisations
      * Managing innovative change
      * Strategy and the competitive environment
      * Marketing management.
  
  Elective courses:
  
  20 elective courses can be taken from
  
      * E-commerce
      * Processes of entrepreneurship
      * The internationalisation of SMEs
      * The knowledge economy
      * Entrepreneurial finance
      * Export marketing
      * Analytical marketing
      * Managing diversity in organisations
      * Work in the new economy
      * Learning and development
      * The business environment in China
      * American business and management in an international context.
  
  Plus an individual project comprising a course on methods of management enquiry and a project submission which will require a comprehensive and critical review of the topic under scrutiny, linked either to secondary data and a detailed proposal for primary research or to some original fieldwork.

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