Course summary

Overview The Executive MBA is an accredited postgraduate programme comprising bite-size packages of learning. It aims to develop business leaders’ and managers’ understanding and critical appreciation of the theories, tools, and applications of leadership and management with a strong focus on sustainability and carbon literacy. This understanding enables them to, more effectively, manage change in organisations and utilise appropriate resources. The Executive MBA at Worcester seeks to improve individual’s personal effectiveness, innovation, and strategic leadership to enhance organisational performance. The programme focuses upon applied and relevant learning, encouraging students to relate the knowledge and skills gained to real leadership and management scenarios. Key features

• A challenge based curriculum that speaks directly to the needs of emerging leaders in contemporary business environments.

• Sustainability and carbon literacy is woven through the course and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are explored in the modules.

• The opportunity to apply learning directly into your own organisation to add immediate value and develop consulting and problem solving skills by engaging with a third party organisation on a meaningful change and improvement project.

• Programme support scaffolding that develops you as an individual leader as well as your academic understanding.

• Opportunities for the systematic development your skills in objective analysis, evaluation and presentation to enable you to further develop confidence in effectively appraising and implementing management strategies.

• The chance to develop the capability to understand your own approach to the role of leadership and to inform this approach through the development of appropriate knowledge, skills, behaviours and techniques in a dynamic way.

• The chance to develop an ability to apply knowledge and understanding of organisations, leadership and management to complex issues, both systematically and creatively, to improve your practice.

• Enhanced lifelong learning skills and personal development so as to be able to work with self-direction and originality and to contribute to business and society at large.

• A stimulating academic environment which is based upon the values of academic openness and critical appraisal.