Managing Organisational Performance - Executive part-time

Start: February.

Duration: 2 year modular - 8 weeks on campus.

Entry Requirements:

A 1st or 2nd class UK Honours degree (or equivalent Bachelors degree) and 2 years relevant work experience or a professional qualification and 5 years relevant work experience.

Students whose first language is not English must achieve a IELTS score of 6.5 with writing of 6.5, or TOEFL 92+ with a minimum of 21 in writing. GMAT (600 minimum) may be required. Please visit our School of Management website for full entry criteria.

Course Description:

The Managing Organisational Performance MSc course provides practical and thorough research-grounded knowledge of planning performance outcomes, managing performance, measuring performance and reviewing performance.

The MSc is a part-time modular course, with extensive individual and team project work carried out within organisations.

Students can expect to gain:

• personal development in acquiring a broad, strategic understanding of organisational performance
• an appreciation of the theoretical underpinnings and principles applied to managing organisational performance
• an understanding of the key strategies, structures, processes and challenges involved in managing organisations
• the confidence to contextualise the management of organisational performance, critically to reflect on this and to select appropriate tools and techniques
• the ability to use a wide range of practical skills to plan, manage, measure and review organisational performance
• expertise in developing and implementing research projects to address pertinent organisational performance issues.

The course comprises taught modules which are underpinned by a in-company group project and an individual research project, through which students have the opportunity to focus on issues of importance to their own or other leading organisations.

"The course has given me a wide range of perspectives, tools and techniques - supporting me to successfully deal with a variety of performance management issues and challenges. The interesting mix of professionals from very different fields makes for an added level of learning - as theories, techniques and ideas are debated and applied to a wide range of fascinating real life situations." Sarah Warner - General Manager, Cardiology and Paediatrics, Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust

Modules:

The course modules include:

• Managing Organisational Performance
• Strategic Performance
• Organisational Theory Perspectives
• Decisions and Actions
• Measuring Organisational Performance
• Data Automation
• Reward and Evaluation
• Evidence from Data and Communicating Insight
• Culture and Change Management
• Performance Improvement
• Organisational Learning
• Reviewing Organisational Performance

Funding: Subject to availability.

For further information, please contact Ellie Varricchio tel: 01234 758102 or email mscmop@cranfield.ac.uk

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