Master of Business Administration in Information Management

Course Structure

1. The nature of organisations
2. Organisation structures: strategy, design and function, job design
3. Organisation cultures: values, ethics, norms of behaviour
4. Theories and models of management: classical and contemporary
5. Individual differences: perception, learning, motivation, equality and diversity
6. Groups and teams in the organisation
7. Managing relationships: power, conflict, communication, engagement
8. Managers as leaders, people developers, coaches
9. Managing job satisfaction and performance
10. Concepts of strategic management applicable to business
11. Prescriptive and emergent strategies
12. Strategy implementation through capacity building and resource allocation
13. Managing, monitoring and reviewing strategic change
14. Organisational designs for strategic advantage
15. Human resources strategy, marketing and corporate financial strategy
16. Organisational learning and knowledge management
17. Research methodologies and philosophy: positivism and interpretivism
18. Qualitative research methods and the search for meaning
19. Selecting a research strategy and design
20. Data gathering, documentary records, triangulation and mixed methods
21. Content analysis, conversation analysis, discourse analysis, grounded theory
22. Quantitative research design and methodologies
23. Univariate and multivariate analysis, factor, cluster and discriminant analysis
24. Internet concepts; networks; ISO 7 layer model; basic network architecture; routing; domain names; email; ftp; telnet; HTTP
25. WWW concepts; Internet resources; URI, and URI resolution, URL, URN; relation to XML namespaces; search engines; search algorithms; search engine optimisation
26. JavaScript; PHP; CSS; programming tools and environments
27. Multimedia; WWW support for multimedia; file compression
28. Internet Security; Cryptography; standards for the Internet; public key systems; signatures; authentication; trust management; electronic cash; security issues; firewalls
29. Web programming; HTML; XML; form input; CGI scripting; Perl programming
30. Principles underlying the preparation of accounting information
31. Recording business transactions
32. Preparation and analysis of financial statements
33. Preparation of budgets, financial planning and control
34. Costing methods, uses and interpretation of cost data
35. Investment appraisal techniques
36. Characteristics of a relational database
37. ER/EER modelling of simple applications
38. Relational model and relational algebra
39. Transformation of an ER/EER model into a relational database
40. Normalisation techniques
41. Uses of SQL language to create and query a database
42. e-commerce ideas and concepts
43. Internet concepts; networks; basic network architecture; routing; domain names; email; telnet; HTTP
44. Architectures and technologies, e-payment, e-commerce software and hardware, e-security, auctions
45. Design and implementation: HTML, XML, CSS, JavaScript, DOM, SVG
46. Research awareness: agent-based e-commerce; web services; grid computing; virtual organisations
47. Understanding the nature of organisations and the people within them, and their use of information for strategic business purposes
48. The influence of human and organisational factors on the successful introduction of information systems
49. Methods and techniques involved in project and programme management
50. The importance of business processes and techniques for process modelling
51. Complete two of the following Applied Business Projects: Business Planning; e-Business and Chain Value; Human Resource Management; International Business; Operations Management; Investment and Private Banking.
52. Write a Computing project, Software Hut. Software Hut is a project in which students (in groups) analyse, design and implement a software product for an organisation.