MBA Program-
Courses

The past few years have witnessed a dramatic reappraisal of longstanding principles of strategic thinking, planning, and implementation. Partly this has been due to the so-called ‘flattening’ of the world: the combined forces of accelerating globalization and digitalization have made it clear that organizational strategies and structures need to adapt to a radically new and unpredictable set of competitive dynamics. Inevitably then, not only are strategies and structures being reappraised; so too are the qualities, characteristics and profiles of current and next tier leaders.

In the light of the above, the overriding focus will be on how to achieve strategic adaptability and flexibility in a changing and unpredictable global environment. Principle tools and concepts of strategy will be discussed, as well as evolving approaches to the interplay between strategy, structure and corporate culture. The seminar will be run in a very interactive manner, with case study analysis and discussion the primary mode of instruction. This MBA course will cover some of the major strategic decision-making tools—including the Ansoff Matrix; SWOT; the VRIO Core Competency tool—as applied specifically to the global environment. A variety of environmental analysis tools, such as Porter’s Five Forces and the PEST model will also be discussed from an applied and practical point of view. And since successful global strategizing also presupposes successful leadership skills, we shall also examine the characteristics of successful leaders, be it in history or contemporary culture, as well as in business.

This MBA course focuses on organizational behavior and cross-cultural management in the workplace. This graduate course addresses some questions regarding occupational health and safety. It concentrates on the variables that affect individual and collective behavior. This master of business administration course will also talk about more traditional organizational behavior subjects such as stress at work, job satisfaction, motivation, performance appraisal, etc. You will learn how work-related variables can affect human behavior and their implications for performance and satisfaction. You will also develop the ability to recognize the influence of these factors on organizational system-level variables and their impact on the critical determinants of organization human resource effectiveness: productivity, absenteeism, turnover, satisfaction, and citizenship.

Innovation is high on every executive’s agenda today. Innovation is seen as a key differentiator in markets that are increasingly hard-fought and it is destined to become ever more so as competitive pressures increase across all industry sectors. Innovation separates the winners from the competitors. In a world of hyper competition, pro-active and continuous work with innovation is imperative to gain competitive advantage.

Innovation manifests itself in a variety of forms. It can drive new service and product offerings and development of brands, ways of marketing, business models, delivery channels and so on, and it can also be at the root of new business opportunity creation and the launch of entirely new business models. However, the coin has a flip side, as innovation development is often expensive and can be easily imitated by competitors in the global economy. Innovation management is the discipline of managing processes in innovation. Without proper processes, it is not possible to be efficient. Innovation management includes a set of tools that allow people in the organization to cooperate with a common understanding of goals and processes.

The focus of innovation management is to allow the organization to pro-actively respond to external or internal opportunities and use its creative efforts to introduce new ideas, processes or products. By utilizing appropriate innovation management tools, management can trigger and deploy the creative forces of the whole work force towards the continuous development of an organization.