MA Management (Advanced Standing)
Offered By: Coventry University via FutureLearn
Course Description
Overview
Develop your leadership skills with this flexible management course that enables you to convert your existing experience into a master’s qualification - in as little as six months.
Put management theory into practice and investigate existing organisational issues. The degree aims to equip you with the professional skills to really add value in the workplace.
Study where and when it suits you, with expert guidance from a dedicated course supervisor, who will support your research and help you to create meaningful change at work.
Syllabus
On successful completion of the course, you should be able to:
- Identify and clearly specify management problems in order to determine the effects that they have upon an organisation
- Critically review relevant, contemporary academic and practitioner literature relating to management and the organisational context
- Systematically and creatively execute appropriate research design using selected research methods to ethically examine defined management problems
- Demonstrate effective management of a project, recognising and adapting to change throughout
- Effectively and consistently present, evaluate and analyse data in the investigation of management
- Reach well-researched conclusions and articulated judgements based upon management research, to create a range of recommendations
- Quantify and critically examine the impact of complex management interventions on an organisation
- Demonstrate strengthening of your professional practice through reflective self-directed learning and communication of findings to an academic audience and organisational stakeholders
Courses
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Explore how to do academic research for a master’s written project
This course offers master’s students the chance to develop a variety of key academic research skills for producing a great written project at a university master’s level.
Examine the cyclical research process and inductive research
Alongside leading academics at Coventry University, you’ll identify how to define topics worthy of research and the main issues to solve using the cyclical research process.
You’ll discover how to apply inductive reasoning to your research process and collect data that informs your work.
Explore how to develop and define research questions
As you come to understand the importance of the initial choices and plans made when developing a project, you’ll have the opportunity to learn how to define research problems and create a research plan outlining the actions needed to reach your goals.
Through an exploration of research questions examples, you’ll develop a research question for a real-life proposed piece of research.
You should also learn how to develop an informed rationale and hypothesis for a research question.
By the end of the course, you should have the tools and research skills you need to develop a strong research question for a proposed piece of research.
This course is designed for any students looking to improve their academic research skills for university at master’s level.
No specific software is required.
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