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Course Summary

Our MSc Management course offers aspiring and developing managers the opportunity to gain valuable knowledge, skills and understanding of Management that can help you make a positive difference for future employers. 

As a new a manager starting your career, this course aims to help you develop your skills, knowledge and competencies in managing the different opportunities and challenges caused by internal and external changes faced by organisations. This will enable you to effectively contribute to the success of the business.   

Our course will help you to achieve your management aspirations by being relevant to the modern business. The combination of academic study with workplace application provides many opportunities to better understand how to manage and make management decisions that impact on the organisation’s success. 

Our tutors encourage class discussions, helping you to learn to build, express and defend your own informed thoughts. Our modules have been carefully designed to provide you with relevant skills, knowledge and understanding that will enable you to perform successfully, and this course has the potential to offer you a springboard to a new career. 

In association with the course, there are opportunities for you to apply for an internship. 

Students that do not wish to study the full MSc programme, can choose to study to a PGDip/PGCert level instead.


What you’llStudy

Our modules provide insights into industry thinking, including how to view business challenges from different perspectives. This results in a range of innovative creative solutions as well as developing your ability to take a strategic overview of the business direction and implementation of strategy. Building on your capacity for creative thinking, the course seeks to build your understanding of the core areas of business and how they interact and contribute to the success of the business.

Module content:

A programme of individual study and research project in accordance with established research principles involving the completion of the following elements:

Management Research Project

 

 


Module aims:

To provide the opportunity to apply management knowledge, skills and research techniques developed during the programme to the identified area of management interest.

To develop students’ intellectual ability in terms of problem solving, critical analysis and conceptual thinking.

To provide students with the opportunity, and the enabling mechanisms to support their development towards independent learning.

Module content:

The nature, extent and purposes of management research

Management research paradigms

Research strategies

Research designs, methods and approaches

Research quality standards: establishing validity, reliability and generalisability

Sampling and Research instrument design

Research ethics

Research Data Management: collection, organisation and analysis

Managing a dissertation research project


Module aims:

The aim of this module is to enable learners to:

Understand and critically evaluate the findings of management research

Design and implement a management research project using methodologies and methods appropriate to research questions and objectives

Analyse and report management research findings meeting academic and practitioner needs

Module content:

Strategic financial accounting:

  • Understanding the format of financial reports and financial accounts.
  • Analysis of financial reporting.

Strategic management accounting:

  • Identify and assess the impact of current developments in management accounting and performance management on measuring, evaluating and improving organisational performance.
  • Apply appropriate strategic performance measurement techniques in evaluating and improving organisational performance.

Module aims:

  1. To enable students to explore and develop an understanding of the theoretical techniques, concepts and methods    employed in strategic financial management.
  2. To develop the ability to apply the theoretical to the practical, through the analysis of data and application of relevant techniques in the context of varied situations.
  3. To evaluate and develop a critical and reflective awareness of the importance of the application of relevant, available techniques to the enhancement of strategic financial decision making and business performance.

Module content:

The delivery of the content will take into account contemporary developments in private, public and not-for-profit sectors and so will be adjusted to reflect these as they arise. However, there is material that may be considered indicative of the core of the content. This includes:

  • Innovation as a strategic imperative;
  • The organisational culture of innovation;
  • Idea generation and refinement techniques;
  • Creativity, Innovation, Diffusion and Portfolio Management; 
  • Process analysis and development techniques;
  • The innovative team; 
  • Managing innovation knowledge;
  • Managing Change for Innovation;
  • Managing Innovation Projects.

Module aims:

The aims of this module is to help students critically analyse, evaluate and apply concepts and practices of innovation and to be able to develop ideas and plans that are viable in an organisational setting

To achieve this students will critically analyse the notion of innovation, and the different stages of the iterative innovation process as applied to the development of ideas for application within and by existing organisations. 

Module content:

  • Organisational behaviour/culture, structure and design;

  • The role of the manager, leadership theories, styles and approaches;

  • Groups and teams in the organisation – group formation, team working;

  • Individual personality, communication and motivation;

  • The role of Human Resource Management in the workplace;

  • Strategies for high performance working (HPW);

  • Employee relations and employment dynamics;

  • Performance Management and managing poor performance;

  • Learning and development methodologies; 

  • Theories and application of reflective practice.

 


Module aims:

This aims of this module are;

  1. For students to draw upon key concepts of leading and managing people and examine how these apply to the current and future world of work;
  2. For students to explore and develop an understanding of key theories and concepts in the field of people management and development;
  3. For students to be able to synthesise knowledge of people management, together with gaining awareness of wider contextual issues in order to address organisational challenges.

 

Module content:


Module aims:

Module content:

To be successful and remain effective in today’s dynamic global business environment, leaders need to adapt more quickly to their new and increasingly changing and demanding roles. The module explores contemporary business issues as they impact on leadership and provides an opportunity for students to reflect on their skills and knowledge diagnose leadership style preferences to develop a personal improvement action plan, which they will then take forward to future roles.

 Contents of the module includes;

 -     The effective leader

-      The leader’s role in the 21st century organisation; aligning, empowering, serving and collaborating

-      Leadership for organisational ambidexterity: exploration, exploitation and adaptability

-      Contemporary challenges for leadership; diverse teams, responding to disruptive challenges 

-      Politics, power and conflict at work

-      Followership – changing perspectives

-      Transformational and transactional  leadership

-      Servant and authentic leadership styles

-      Distributed and shared approaches

-      The Humanistic Leader; authenticity, positivity, humility and trust

-      Emotional intelligence for leadership. 

-      Managing the self: audit of personal leadership capabilities, qualities and appraisal of future career paths


Module aims:

The module aims to provide the student with a holistic approach to understanding the impact of current issues and the challenges faced by leaders in contemporary organisations. The focus will be on critical application of ‘real life’ approaches and self reflection on future leadership development needs

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MSc Management

Who you’ll Learn from

Dr Andy McCarroll

Lecturer in Management
Andy McCarroll

Dr Ying Zhao

Lecturer
Dr Ying Zhao

Luisa Goncalves Rosado

Lecturer in Management
Luisa

Luke Pearson

Lecturer
Luke Pearson

How you'll Learn

You will learn by attending regular, scheduled sessions, which could be lectures, project work, presentations, discussions or case studies, as well as one-to-one sessions with your tutors. The course includes six taught modules plus the Management Research Project. 

Assessment of your learning could be through written assignments, in-class tests, examinations or presentations, as well as completion of an individual management report.

Beyond the Classroom

Our students can meet business leaders who operate in challenging business environments. The programme brings the theory of leading and managing to life. 

Entry Requirements

2:2 honours degree

Applicants will normally be expected to hold a degree with a minimum 2:2 honours, or equivalent. Applications are also welcome from those with non-standard entry qualifications. 

2:2 honours degree

Applicants will normally be expected to hold a degree with a minimum 2:2 honours, or equivalent. Applications are also welcome from those with non-standard entry qualifications. 

Please note, some programmes have special entry requirements.

English Language Requirements  

For those who do not have IELTS or an acceptable in-country English language qualification, the University of Chester has developed its own online English language test which applicants can take for just £50. 

For more information on our English Language requirements, please visit International Entry Requirements

Where you'll Study Queen's Park, Chester

Fees and Funding

£8,505 per year (2024/25)

Guides to the fees for students who wish to commence postgraduate courses in the academic year 2024/25 are available to view on our Postgraduate Taught Programmes Fees page.

£14,750 per year (2024/25)

The tuition fees for international students studying Postgraduate programmes in 2024/25 are £14,750. 

The University of Chester offers generous international and merit-based scholarships for postgraduate study, providing a significant reduction to the published headline tuition fee. You will automatically be considered for these scholarships when your application is reviewed, and any award given will be stated on your offer letter.  

For more information, go to our International Fees, Scholarship and Finance section.

Irish Nationals living in the UK or ROI are treated as Home students for Tuition Fee Purposes.  

Your course will involve additional costs not covered by your tuition fees. This may include books, printing, photocopying, educational stationery and related materials, specialist clothing, travel to placements, optional field trips and software. Compulsory field trips are covered by your tuition fees. 

If you are living away from home during your time at university, you will need to cover costs such as accommodation, food, travel and bills. 

The University of Chester supports fair access for students who may need additional support through a range of bursaries and scholarships.

Full details, as well as terms and conditions for all bursaries and scholarships can be found on the Fees & Finance section of our website.

Your future Career

Job prospects

Our students have gone onto a wide range of careers from working in the family business to roles in marketing and finance. Some work in industry while others work in the not-for-profit sector and they are employed across a number of different countries around the world. 

Careers service

The University has an award-winning Careers and Employability service which provides a variety of employability-enhancing experiences; through the curriculum, through employer contact, tailored group sessions, individual information, advice and guidance.

Careers and Employability aims to deliver a service which is inclusive, impartial, welcoming, informed and tailored to your personal goals and aspirations, to enable you to develop as an individual and contribute to the business and community in which you will live and work.

We are here to help you plan your future, make the most of your time at University and to enhance your employability. We provide access to part-time jobs, extra-curricular employability-enhancing workshops and offer practical one-to-one help with career planning, including help with CVs, applications and mock interviews. We also deliver group sessions on career planning within each course and we have a wide range of extensive information covering graduate jobs .