Lancaster University Ghana LUG Executive MBA Course Structure
You will study a range of modules as part of your course, some examples of which are listed below:
Core
- Leadership and Organisational Behaviour
- Business Economics
- Business Ethics and Sustainability
- Accounting and Finance for Managers
- Marketing Management
- Operations Management
Core
- Entrepreneurship and Innovation
- Business Research and Consultancy Project
- Global Strategic Management
Optional
- International Business in Context
- Managing Strategic Change
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Strategic Brand Management
- Responsible Leadership Challenges
- Innovation and Improvement Methods
- Quality Improvement and Measurement in Healthcare
- Systems Thinking
- Leaders Leveraging Human Capital: Managing the Interface of HRM
Year 1:
Marketing Management
This module explores how organisations research, segment and attack markets. You will develop a practical understanding of marketing and its contribution to the success of an organisation. Through discussing ideas, tools and frameworks you will gain an understanding of how to challenge and improve the planning and implementation of marketing strategies in your own organisation.
Leadership and Organisational Behaviour
This module explores key ideas relevant to leading and managing organisations. You will critically evaluate your own practice using frameworks ad tools with real practical relevance. The module focuses on the world of work, considering leadership in the context of issues such as motivation, culture, power and structure.
Business Economics
Grasping the fundamental concepts of economic analysis aids good decision making. This module develops your knowledge by demonstrating the relevance of these concepts and building your understanding of microeconomic and macroeconomic problems related to business.
Strategic HRM and Organisational Behaviour
Provides frameworks and tools with real practical relevance for managing highly complex HR decisions. It explores the world of work, taking into account how recent changes have affected the process of managing and how changes in structure and process within organisations affect culture and values. It also explores issues of power.
Operations Management
This module aims to improve your understanding of operations management and its contribution to the success of an organisation. You will explore the key integrating role of operations as the connection between strategy and the delivery of a product or service to a customer. The tools and concepts covered apply to both manufacturing and service operations, and so will be relevant for all organisations.
Accounting and Finance for Managers
It is crucial for managers to understand the role and purpose of finance in organisations. This module provides a general understanding of theoretical and practical financial issues, particularly the use of financial information and analysis in strategic decision making.
Business Ethics and Susainability
In an increasingly interconnected, interdependent and uncertain world, the responsibilities of managers and leades are embracing wider ethical, environmental and social issues. This module aims to prepare future decion-makers for the associated challenges, examining the assumptions, practices, strategies and consequences of business and management activity.
Entrepreneurship
‘How are you entrepreneurial?’ This module invites you to consider this question. I presents an overview of the main concepts relevant to entrepreneurship across diverse contexts, encouraging you to think entrepreneurially and to examine entrepreneurial solutions to challenges big and small.
Year 2:
Global Strategic Management
Focuses on how to take a strategic and holistic perspective when diagnosing problems, planning and leading within organisations, and explores how globalisation and other external environmental forces impact on the strategic options open to organisations
Elective 1
Our electives allow you to specialise in areas of your choice, or to take a portfolio of different options that will broaden your business knowledge. All Lancaster electives will be delivered totally online.
Elective 2
Our electives allow you to specialise in areas of your choice, or to take a portfolio of different options that will broaden your business knowledge. All Lancaster electives will be delivered totally online.
Elective 3
Our electives allow you to specialise in areas of your choice, or to take a portfolio of different options that will broaden your business knowledge. All Lancaster electives will be delivered totally online.
Research Methods for Managers
A substantial piece of action research carried out within your own organisation or industry over the final months of your EMBA, this requires you to devise and conduct your own research and apply appropriate theory to a central issue of organisational importance
Consultancy Challenge
A key part of the action orientation of the EMBA programme, this involves a one-week group consultancy intervention for a client organisation. It gives you scope to test out your new knowledge and skills in an unfamiliar environment, thus helping to embed your learning from the programme as a whole. A preparatory workshop, held before you meet your client, introduces you to some of the key consultancy skills and tools
Dissertation
Work-based assignments
After each of the modules, you complete a practical, work-focused assignment, where you apply and evaluate some of the theories you have just learnt, effectively acting as an internal consultant and generating actionable recommendations for your organisation. Covering all areas of business operations – from strategy and marketing to operations and finance – this work will engage you with all parts of your own organisation.
The assignments allow you to demonstrate your knowledge and understanding of the concepts and theories you have been introduced to. Most importantly, you will be able to apply these to real business situations.