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Master of to engage their followers and secure qualitative research and considers
a multi-method approach as a
maximum contribution to their plans.
Strategic This course is designed to help senior more balanced way to achieve a
pragmatic research methodology
managers understand their potential
to convey powerful messages and
that can ultimately be useful for the
Leadership to critically analyze the impact of business practitioner. The students
the media and pressure groups on
will be also introduced to emerging
stakeholders and organizational topics such big data and analytics.
Core Courses strategy, and to develop innovative This course places special emphasis
ways of using the media to best on developing an understanding of
effect. ethical principles in research, namely
MSL 500 - Strategic Dimensions The course will lean heavily on Fourth the issues related to plagiarism,
of Business Functions Quadrant Thinking, namely, that the rights of human subjects in relation
to privacy and no harm inflicted, data
Credit Hour: 3 most successful organizations are protection and the importance of
Prerequisite: No Prerequisite not those that focus on performance, sound research for decision making.
but those that invest considerable
This course is designed to provide effort on developing a meaningful MSL 525 - Leading
students with a foundation on the or purposeful culture. The values Organizational Change
strategic dimensions of the key of the organization and its leaders,
business functions. The course the ethical framework under which Credit Hour: 3
is offered with an assumption it operates are the keys to success. Prerequisite: MSL 514
that the target students are This course will help you identify This course provides students with
experienced senior level managers, how best to use your self-awareness
and are familiar with the roles and and communication skills to lead an understanding of the theories and
practice associated with leadership
responsibilities of various functional others in socially responsible ways.
units of business operations such as It includes topics such as convincing and organizational change. The first
part of this course focuses on change
Finance and Accounting, Marketing, others of the need for major change, and change management. Topics
and Human Resource Management, activating corporate values, driving
and therefore this course does not employee engagement, dealing with covered include the nature of change,
drivers of change, dimensions of
teach students the operational details major public relations issues and the
of these functional units. Instead, importance of aligning your values change, organizational context
within which change is implemented,
the course aims to provide a clear with the corporate values to ensure change management process, as well
picture on the nature and complexity ethical leadership.
of various functional aspects, and as the role of various organizational
and environmental factors in change
their impact on organizational MSL 524 - Research Methods in
decision making at a strategic level. Business management. The main goal of this
first part of the course is to equip
In addition, the course also intends Credit Hour: 3 students with a deep understanding
to demonstrate the importance of
research skills and the use of data Prerequisite: MSL 500 of what change is and the dynamics
of change. The second part of this
for managerial decision making. This course is designed for the
This course provides an important business researcher or professional course focuses on leadership in the
context of change management.
foundation to the whole programme in order to make choices about This part examines various strategic
by helping students identify a how to handle the most important
suitable topic for further research. business variables and how to study approaches to managing change as
well as specific leadership responses
MSL 522 - Leadership and them. Business research design to change. Students will learn such
usually takes the form of statistical
Communication research, survey research, case essential leadership competencies
Credit Hour: 3 studies, experimental research or as influence, conceptual thinking
Prerequisite: MSL 500 meta–analysis. The course examines and systems thinking. All of these
competencies are considered to be
specific issues relating to business
Sophisticated communication skills research projects in terms of essential for initiating, managing,
are critical to effective strategic formulating research questions, and implementing change within
leadership. Successful leaders organizations. This part of the course
understand the needs of their collection of data, analysis and also gives students an opportunity to
recommendations. The course
followers and are able to lock into examines both quantitative and assess their leadership potential in
powerful channels of communication terms of identifying their leadership
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