MMgt: Course Objectives

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Research Master of Management

The Research Master of Management programme has been designed to enable the candidates to:

develop an appreciation of work-based management issues;
extend a critical understanding of practice within a strategic or functional area;
develop a capacity to apply interdisciplinary approaches to questions and research in work-based management issues;
use the action research, case research or reflective practice method to address and resolve a specific strategic or functional workplace, industry issue; and
develop the conceptual and analytical thinking, research and writing skills necessary to successfully complete a research dissertation.

The objectives of the Professional Master of Management are:

to provide appropriate evidence of advanced knowledge about a specialist body of theoretical and applied topics;
to demonstrate a high order of skill in analysis, critical evaluation and/or professional application through the planning and execution of project work or a piece of scholarship or research; and
to develop the conceptual and analytical thinking, research and writing skills necessary to successfully complete a case study when a candidate selects the professional masters pathway.