Leadership in the Global Digital World MSc

Compulsory

• MG5xx1 - Leadership, Strategic Decision-Making and Organisational Management

  This module aims to evaluate a range of leadership approaches and their contribution to strategic decision-making, organisational effectiveness and performance. It develops in-depth understanding of leadership identity and emotional intelligence in supporting management practice and behavioural change. Also, analyses the challenges of leading in complex, diverse and rapidly changing organisational environments, and assess management approaches for implementing strategy effectively.

• MG5xx2 - Leading Digital Futures

  This module aims to:

  • enable students to critically evaluate emerging digital technologies and assess their strategic implications for organisational models, leadership practices, and global competitiveness.
  • develop students’ advanced digital‑era leadership capabilities, equipping them to make informed strategic decisions and lead cross‑functional teams through digital transformation in complex global contexts.
  • provide students with the skills to design, implement, and critically assess evidence‑based digital transformation strategies that integrate technology, people, processes, organisational culture, and principles of ethics, sustainability, and inclusivity.
  • prepare students to anticipate, interpret, and shape future digital trends by evaluating scenario‑based futures and developing leadership approaches suited to navigating digital disruption and uncertainty in evolving socio‑technical environments.
• MG5643 - Understanding Business and Management Research

  The module introduces the fundamentals of quantitative and qualitative methods in management research and how these are applied to solve complex problems in the field of international business. It also provides training on the most advanced statistical software packages used in management research and practice.

• MG5642 - Dissertation

  The aim of this module is that of allowing you to conduct a piece of research including the identification of the research enquiry, data collection and analysis and the presentation of the results. The dissertation module, through the supervision of an academic member, develops you as an independent learner and brings together the knowledge and skills gained in the programme for the analysis of a specific business problem.

Optional

• MG56004 - AI Strategy and Transformation

  This block has three main aims which are to:

  • Enable students to understand and evaluate various AI Strategies and transformation options from corporate, institutional, and national perspectives.
  • Introduce students to topics, concepts, theories, methodological approaches, and strategies relevant to the adoption, implementation, diffusion of AI from technological, ethical, legal and socio-economic aspects.
  • Develop students’ skills of critical thinking, logical analysis, argument, and judgement when analysing AI strategies in organisations via the use of case study and other materials exemplar readings and other information sources
• MG55ZZ - Innovative AI Leadership and Business Models

  Students will learn to appreciate the issues and challenges that confront managers responsible for artificial intelligence and its implications for leadership and aligning its business model and structure, embedding corporate governance and understanding its application for resource and talent management and communication and marketing. The module will introduce students to topics, concepts, theories, methodological approaches and tools relevant to leading and managing organisations to benefit the implementation of AI. Students will develop their skills of critical thinking, logical analysis, argument and judgement when deploying AI in organisations via the use of case study and other materials exemplar readings and other information sources.

• MG5577 - International and Comparative Human Resource Management

  This module examines human resources strategy and practice for organisations operating across national boundaries, including the EU and its member states, the USA, Japan and South East Asia.

• MG5564 - International Business Strategy

  This module communicates the forces that shape the operating environments of organisations, nationally and internationally. Upon completing this module, students will be able to systematically apply business management theories, concepts and techniques to central international business activities such as foreign entry.

• MG5593 - International Business Ethics and Corporate Governance

  This module explores key concepts and challenges in business ethics, sustainability, and corporate governance within an international context. It examines the dual ‘business’ models of shareholder and stakeholder approaches, while considering the wider societal impacts of business activities across organisations of all scales, from multinational corporations to SMEs. Through the application of moral philosophy, corporate social responsibility (CSR), sustainability principles, and corporate governance frameworks, students will critically evaluate real-world business practices using empirical case studies.

• MG5561 - International Marketing

  This module discusses the key aspects of international marketing in management science and practice such as the standardization/adaptation debate, the crucial role of culture and politics and how to develop successful product and branding strategies in global markets.

• MG5662 - Managing Global Challenges

  Students will get insight into Global Diversity Management by examining how organisations plan, coordinate and implement a set of management strategies, policies, initiatives such as training and development activities that seek to accommodate diverse sets of social and individual backgrounds, interests, beliefs, values and ways of work in organisations with international, multinational, global and transnational workforces and operations.

• MG5579 - Operations and Project Management

  This module will provide an overview of the breadth of operations management in contemporary organisations, to raise awareness and understanding of the strategic issues involved in the way organisations manage their operational activities and facilities, within and beyond the firm boundaries and where exposure to a project environment is pervasive, and to develop participants appreciation of the relation between operations / service / project design choices and performance imperatives including quality, time compression and flexibility.

• MG5666 - Project Management Tools and Techniques
• MG5625 - Strategic Digital Marketing

  Providing a critical understanding of achieving marketing objectives through the application of digital media, data and technology. Understanding and developing an insight into the various components of digital marketing channels and platforms that is designed to enable digital marketers to plan, manage and optimise all aspects of the key digital marketing strategies and tactics relevant to today’s marketing environment.

• MG5596 - Strategic Management

  This module introduces students to the design and choice of strategies in organisations across industries and sectors. It enables students to appreciate the challenges that confront managers in complex, dynamic and increasingly uncertain conditions. Students develop skills in critical thinking, logical analysis, argument and judgement based on insights from case studies and cutting-edge research.