PROGRAMME Themes


Te programme has a number of major themes or subject streams, which form the basis of the discussion which takes place during the common core seminars. Te interrelationship between them is shown in the programme map below.


Te main themes running through the programme are:


■ Strategy ■ Organisation behaviour ■ Financial analysis ■ Management of change


■ Organisation design ■ Personal skills ■ Information systems/IT ■ Learning and research methods


Tey are supplemented by inputs on topics relevant to the initiatives undertaken (eg operations, marketing, HRM etc.)


Financial analysis


■ Financial analysis of the firm ■ Corporate finance ■ Management accounting


Strategy ■ Managing the firm’s environment


■ Strategy formulation ■ Strategy implementation


■ Elements of strategy (defining the business, competitive advantage, portfolio analysis, profit impact of marketing strategy, strategic choices)


■ Strategies in particular organisation forms (service organisations, multinationals, semi-state, state)


Management of change


■ Overview, present state, desired end state


■ Models of change ■ Technologies for change ■ Managing transition ■ Monitoring/evaluating change ■ Stabilising change


Organisation design


■ Evolutionary models of the firm ■ Task system ■ Technology ■ Contingency theory of organisations ■ Structural types ■ Integrated contingency models ■ Information requirements


Information Systems/IT


■ Information requirements of particular organisation forms


■ Management information systems ■ Management control


Organisation behaviour


■ Human behaviour ■ Culture and climate ■ Leadership ■ Motivation/rewards systems ■ Group/inter group processes ■ Power and influence ■ Organisation politics


Personal skills


■ Influencing ■ Negotiation ■ Team skills ■ Problem solving/decision making ■ Personal insight


MPP Learning & Research


■ Action learning/learning styles ■ Learning cycles ■ Diary keeping


■ Using the tutor network ■ Preparing thesis proposal ■ Reflection in practice


■ Preparing a reading programme ■ Planning thesis structure


■ Group learning from individual project reports


■ Recording and interpreting relevant actions ■ Writing the thesis


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