MBA in Leadership

MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (M.B.A.) in Leadership

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Good leadership means good business. Professional communication, team building and conflict resolution are the key skills developed in this comprehensive MBA in Leadership programme. Whether you want to be a startup entrepreneur or a change-agent in an existing organization, this MBA specialization will help you to define your leadership style. You’ll learn to set clear goals and objectives while effectively managing a team. This programme promotes leadership values that benefit both companies and their employees.  The major theories to study include: trait theory, behavioral theory, contingency theory, and transformational leadership. Several intertwined topics include: power, motivation, and management style. Practical aspects of leadership to be covered are: stress, dealing with corporate culture, gender and race issues, etc.

Core modules

  • MGT510: Managerial Accounting
  • MGT520: Managing Business Strategy
  • MGT530: Human Capital Management
  • MGT540: Marketing Management
  • MGT550: Managing Operations
  • MGT560: Leading Organization
  • MGT570: Financial Management
  • MGT580: Project Management

Entry requirements

  1. Recognized Bachelor Degree in any field
  2. Sufficient English language proficiency (IELTS 6.0 or its equivalent)
  3. At least 3 years of working experience in the managerial position

Action research Paper

This requirement of the MBA programme will enable the student to prepare a research paper that applies managerial concepts and research techniques to a significant organizational issue or problem, within the context of his/her chosen specialization area. After completing the action research the student should be able to:

  • Select, evaluate and apply critical management thinking to an organizational issue or problem.
  • Critically evaluate the techniques and processes used to investigate an important organizational issue or problem.
  • Synthesize information to arrive at a coherent conclusion.
  • Critically evaluate the implications for the recommendations presented.
  • Critically reflect on his or her development of knowledge, skills and techniques used during the preparation of the action research paper.

Programme Benefits

  • To enable the advanced study of organizations, 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.

Learning Materials

Personalized, easy to understand text-based (reading materials) interactive resources that progressively and systematically takes the learner through various areas of competencies required at the workplace, in a specialized field of study

Assessment of Learning

Personalized exercises, assignments and/or quizzes are utilized throughout the course/programme to measure progress in learning. Such comprehensive assessment procedure is characterized by being diagnostic, formative (intervention-oriented), and summative.

Completion requirement

100% completion of courses and assessment therein is required to be able to get certified in the said course and/or programme

Grading Scheme

The grading system is defined as follows:

Pass:

Higher Distinction: 90-100%

Distinction       : 80-89%

First Division   : 70-79%

Second Division           : 60-69%

Satisfactory      : 50-59%

Fail:

Unsatisfactory  : 49 % and below

Fees €1,499

Duration of study 12 months

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