Cardiff University

Mestrado em Gestão Empresarial

O MSc Business Management está estruturado em seis blocos de módulos, além de um Desafio de Consultoria. O primeiro e o último bloco do módulo são programados individualmente como experiências de aprendizagem introdutórias e fundamentais. Os outros quatro módulos são programados em pares.

We recognise that you will be making a transition from one area of study to another, to a more advanced level of learning, and possibly to a different learning culture. Consequently, the block structure provides an enriched opportunity for extended learning activities, class interaction and review of learning to enhance understanding. It also enables us to offer extra support for individual students to build their confidence.

The introductory module sets the scene for the rest of the programme by considering the key features of the business environment and how this shapes organisations and their decisions. You will then examine core management concepts and practices associated with a range of functional areas.

The modules that follow will help you consider the latest research and practice in business management, including core areas such as marketing, strategy, finance, logistics, economics and human resources.

Your enhanced knowledge and skills will be integrated and applied in a capstone ‘Business in Action’ module. Here you will explore a series of large-scale and complex global issues that present significant dilemmas for the effective management of business.

Choice and specialisation are embedded within modules.  For example, the ‘Business in Action’ module will provide you with the opportunity to focus on a contemporary debate or issue that has particular relevance for your future career.

The programme concludes with a Consultancy Project.  Reflecting the team-based structure of contemporary organisations, you will work in a group to analyse, diagnose and recommend practical solutions for a business problem in a realistic and relevant business context that may include charities and not-for-profit enterprises.

You will develop and apply the key technical and soft skills required for effective business management in every module. You will see your confidence as a future manager build cumulatively across the programme as you are given multiple opportunities to respond to practical business management challenges.

All modules are underpinned by a concern to examine the contrasting political, economic, socio-cultural, technological, legal and environmental factors that inform management decision-making in different international business contexts. Understanding these dynamics will help you to reflect on the multiple factors that offer opportunities and constraints on management decision-making.

Core Modules for Year One

• Consultancy Challenge
• Understanding Organisations and the Business Environment
• Global Marketing
• Managing People
• Analysing Financial Performance
• Strategic and Operational Decision Making
• Business in Action

How Will I Be Assessed?

The block programme structure provides plenty of opportunities for you to reflect on your learning and development informally. Short knowledge/skill review activities are built into each module to help you check your progress and improve your approach to learning. This will build your confidence and enhance your approach to formal assessment tasks.

A variety of formal assessment tasks provide the opportunity to explore concepts and models in creative and practical ways. These include poster presentations, case studies, group presentations, reports and videos. You will work individually and as part of a team, just as you would in the workplace.

All formal assessments are completed within each module. This enables more in-depth consolidation and application required for successful performance in assessment tasks based on the complex functional level work undertaken by professional managers. It also reflects realistic workplace timescales for the completion of tasks. The capstone module focuses explicitly on the challenge of multi-functional working and multi-faceted problems.

What Skills Will I Practise and Develop?

Knowledge & Understanding

On successful completion of the programme you will be able to:

• Aproveite o conhecimento de áreas funcionais relevantes para projetar soluções para problemas complexos de gestão de negócios
• Avaliar criticamente estruturas, modelos, debates e evidências de gestão em um contexto em mudança
• Avaliar criticamente a eficácia de diferentes abordagens de pesquisa para compreender problemas de gestão
• Debater questões relevantes de gestão empresarial no contexto de contrastar os fatores políticos, econômicos, socioculturais e jurídicos
• Demonstrar uma consciência crítica da importância da contribuição económica e social de uma organização para a sociedade

Intellectual Skills

On successful completion of the programme you will be able to:

• Analisar métodos para gerar dados relevantes para contextos específicos
• Analisar criticamente e sintetizar informações
• Avaliar a aplicação prática da teoria à prática
• Desenvolver e comunicar recomendações baseadas em evidências

Professional Practical Skills

On successful completion of the programme you will be able to:

• Realizar pesquisas para resolver problemas de negócios
• Utilize técnicas contábeis
• Desenvolver relações de trabalho eficazes e habilidades de trabalho em equipe

Transferable/Key Skills

On successful completion of the programme you will be able to:

• Resolver problemas
• Communicate to diverse audiences through a range of media
• Demonstrar autoconsciência e realizar autorreflexão
• Work independently
• Use digital technology

At Cardiff Business School, you’ll receive a career-changing education from world-leading academics who have different points of view. They’ll challenge your thinking as you consider the world of business from a range of alternative perspectives.

Em nosso MSc em Gestão de Negócios, você se beneficiará do conhecimento e experiência de nossa equipe Career Enhancer. Eles estão prontos e esperando para identificar eventos e oportunidades que ajudem você a alcançar suas aspirações futuras.

We’ve developed relationships that range from the largest multinationals to the smallest micro-businesses, and include a wide variety of social enterprises and cooperatives. We use these networks to deliver value for our students through:

• Real-world case studies and insights
• Collaboration with our Public Value Entrepreneurs in Residence
• Guest lectures
• Field trips and workshops.

Com a oportunidade de combinar um Ano de Colocação Profissional dedicado com essas oportunidades de aprendizagem, você terá a chance de absorver habilidades práticas e confiança profissional para garantir uma posição de gestão no mercado de trabalho de pós-graduação.

Este programa lhe dará novas oportunidades de emprego nos negócios, complementando as habilidades e conhecimentos que você adquiriu em seu primeiro diploma para desenvolver o que você aprendeu e as habilidades que você adquiriu em seu primeiro diploma com insights, ferramentas e técnicas de gerenciamento para lhe dar um adicional vantagem ao entrar no local de trabalho.

How Will I Be Taught?

An active learning approach is embedded in the MSc Business Management. We believe that effective learning is founded on your involvement in diverse experiences, and the way you make sense of those experiences, both individually and with others. A team that includes academics from multiple disciplines, and practitioners representing a range of functions and sectors will facilitate the modules. This will reflect workplace practice and encourage the cross-fertilisation of different perspectives.

Cada bloco de aprendizagem inclui uma variedade de atividades, como estudos de caso, vídeos, desafios de miniequipes, dramatizações, visitas a empresas e palestrantes do setor, todos projetados para apresentar novas ideias e desenvolver sua compreensão.

We will help you to enhance the reflective skills you were introduced to during your first degree, including observation, analysis, and synthesis to ensure that you are able to develop comprehensive insight and clear conclusions about these experiences.

Compartilhar sua compreensão com outras pessoas também é importante para construir novos insights sobre a natureza da gestão empresarial em diversos contextos. Você será incentivado a trabalhar de forma colaborativa em diversas equipes para considerar uma série de entendimentos e práticas alternativas.

Experimentar novos aprendizados também é importante. Você integrará e aplicará novos conhecimentos, juntamente com novas habilidades de gerenciamento de negócios, em tarefas práticas incorporadas em cada bloco de aprendizagem e em atividades formais de cursos.