3 good reasons to study Global Management at Salford
- Take a Business Innovation Project module, increasing your practical skills and experience
- Understand management within a range of organisations
- Enhance your career with formal business and management knowledge attaining a flexible career path
Duration
MSc (Minimum 12 months, maximum three years)
Course Details
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Strategic International Business Management
You will gain a thorough grounding in the major issues and perspectives of management, with a particular focus on strategic, global and organisational issues in an international context. You’ll also get an overview of key issues and decisions relating to the legal, social and ethical responsibilities of corporate management. You will be encouraged to think critically about theory and practice in an ethical and professional manner, in particular in light of key issues and decisions related to the strategic organisation in both national and international contexts. This module draws from findings from research into work and particular emphasis is placed on a number of theoretical and practical perspectives to enable you to better understand the world of work.
Indicative Syllabus Outline
- Types of national and international business
- The concept of strategy: strategic context; theories of strategy and making strategy
- Environmental scanning: Politico- Legal, Economic and Socio-Cultural Environment; government policy and industry regulation
- Demographic and social trends: population, employment, family structure
- The external environment: context, positioning, facilitating competitive advantage and capturing economic value
- The internal environment: resources, competences and capability as the source of competitive advantage and economic value- effective communication, delegation and prioritisation
- Strategic options
- Implementing Strategy and Managing Change – lleadership in a global context, motivation, job satisfaction and performance management; rewards and incentive schemes –National and organizational cultures;
- Managing ethnicity, diversity and difference; new forms of organizing globally, cross cultural management and strategies
- Managing in the virtual environment
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- Contemporary research
International Financial Management
Examine the impact of such factors as exchange rates, inflation rates and interest rates on the management of firms in an international/global context. You will be able to devise and evaluate a risk management strategy for the uncertain world of international financial markets using financial instruments such as swaps, options and futures. Emphasis is placed on factors that differentiate multinational from domestic financial management. This module also offers the opportunity to develop practical analytical and presentational skills by applying theory and concepts to international financial databases.
Indicative Syllabus Outline
- The International Perspective
- Globalisation and the multinational firm
- International monetary system
- Balance of payments
- The market for foreign exchange
- International parity relationships
- International Financial Markets
- The derivative market and hedging strategies
- Foreign direct investment
- International capital budgeting
- International portfolio investment and diversification
- Financial Management and the Multinational Firm
- Multinational treasury management
- Current topics
Marketing and Service Management
Develop an understanding of the role of marketing within the global organisation and the processes involved, with particular emphasis on the service sector. You will gain knowledge and skills applicable to managing quality and a wide-ranging analysis of the issues involved in managing the strategic marketing/management functions within a global service context. In drawing from findings from research and practice, emphasis is placed on a number of theoretical perspectives that enable you to develop the ability to critically evaluate and analyse service management opportunities and problems at a global scale.
Indicative Syllabus Outline
- Strategic Marketing Theory in relation to both Physical Goods and Services.
- The Marketing Environment and Market Demand and Forecasting
- Branding as a strategic tool
- Relationship Marketing/ Management
- Measurement, improvement and management of Service Quality
- Relationship Marketing as a general philosophy, service relationships and brands
- Future Directions for Marketing:
- Experiential theory and Services Dominant logic
- The role of new communications media
- Sustainability and the impact of CSR on Marketing
Operations and Information Management
Develop an in-depth understanding of the increasingly important field of operations and information management at a global scale. You will gain an overview of how to improve different types of operations and information systems, to contribute to a company’s competitiveness and strategy. You will develop understanding of concepts, techniques and models that are used for planning, managing and improving operations and MIS within manufacturing and service organisations in a global context.
Indicative Syllabus Outline
- Strategic operations management in a global environment
- Principles of quality and environmental management
- Service Quality management
- Understanding, measuring, reducing and preventing quality costs.
- Forecasting demand
- Capacity management
- Inventory management
- Queuing theory
- Planning & control systems and methodologies: (MRP, Just In Time, Lean/ Agile)
- Make/Buy/Outsourcing/Off-shoring
- Shared services
- Systems integration strategies
Business Innovation Project
Dissertation: a conventional dissertation of 12,000 to 15,000 words, consisting of research question, aims and objectives, rationale for undertaking the study, literature review, research methodology, analysis of findings, conclusions and recommendations.