Employers need managers who can navigate the complexities of business and show global awareness. Our MSc Business Management programme will equip you with these key skills and a range of management techniques to prepare you for a successful career.
This programme is for graduates of all backgrounds who want to kick-start their management careers and achieve an industry-standard level in management studies.
A key part of the MSc Business Management is nurturing your professional and career development. The size of our intake means connections can be forged quickly, offering you a chance to interact with peers from across the globe. This diversity and breadth of perspectives enriches Lancaster University Leipzig’s learning environment. You will also benefit from close contact with LU Leipzig’s faculty, which is comprised of practitioners, academics and consultants.
At LU Leipzig, you will also benefit from our specialist careers support throughout your studies, and beyond graduation. We host careers events every year, providing you with the opportunity to network with top graduate employers from Germany and overseas, and supporting you to achieve your future career aspirations.
The MSc Business Management programme offers a far-reaching knowledge base that enhances your employability. As an LU Leipzig student, you will graduate with a comprehensive understanding of management complemented by profound emotional intelligence making this an excellent choice to launch a successful career in management.
1 academic year
English
The aim of this programme is to equip you with state-of-the-art knowledge and the skill set required to lead a successful career in management in an international context. The ambition is to help shape managers of the future, enabling them to analyse and solve problems and to make decisions with an awareness of the strategic context, the role of technology and of managing within and between organisations. The programme is designed to provide you with a solid core knowledge in management, financial management and accounting, digital transformation and ethics.
The programme is designed for graduates interested in careers in middle or upper management. Demand has never been higher for people who can apply quality management science to ethically and sustainably manage people and companies. This module equips you with the skills to achieve this.
Programme structure: Information contained on the website with respect to modules is correct at the time of publication, and the University will make every reasonable effort to offer modules as advertised. In some cases, changes may be necessary and may result in some combinations being unavailable, for example as a result of student feedback, timetabling, staff changes and new research. Not all optional modules are available every year.
Modules:
Organisational Behaviour and Human Resource Management
The module enables a critical understanding of the complexities of people in work and how this particular resource can be managed and with what effect. On successful completion of the module, students will be able to demonstrate the following subject specific learning outcomes:
Accounting and Finance for Managers
This is designed as an introductory module in accounting and finance. The objectives of the module are:
Business Ethics and Society
The objective of this module is to attempt to develop moral sensibility and practical reasoning in the context of managerial everyday action in organisations. The module concerns itself with morality in action, as it happens, rather than a removed reflection on codes and principles of ethics. The module aims to show that ethics in action is diffused and difficult. Nevertheless, managers and employees have a responsibility to `work it out’ for themselves. It is this `how to work it out’ that the module keeps as its focus. The module utilises a number of case studies as a basis to develop this moral sensibility so that managers will be able to act in a morally appropriate manner as part of their ongoing organisational action.
Strategic Supply Chain Management
You will develop a strategic understanding of supply chain management, building on core principles of operations management. You will explore how organisations connect across supply chains, focusing on inter-organisational relationships, coordination and integration. Key topics include:
You will examine how supply and demand are managed and how inventory, capacity and planning decisions affect overall effectiveness. You will also explore:
We bring your learning to life through seminars, case studies, real-world examples and a field trip. You will be encouraged to connect what you learn to current events and business news, helping you apply ideas to real challenges. This module lays the foundation for the rest of your MSc programme, helping you understand how different elements of logistics and supply chain management work together to develop a competitive advantage.
Marketing Management
The main objectives of the module are:
Logistics Management
Statistics and Descriptive Analytics
Strategic Management
The ultimate goal of the module is to develop your’ skills in analysing strategic situations and formulating strategy. After the module you should be able to analyse the competitive situation facing a firm, identify potential sources of competitive advantage and disadvantage and gain an appreciation of international business environments. In these analyses, you will apply analytical techniques from strategy, finance, accounting, organisational theory, organisational behaviour, marketing, economics and operations management.
You will be able to recognise the problems the organisation faces and develop and evaluate alternative courses of action available to the firm to solve those problems. Further, you will be able to persuasively communicate your analytical conclusions, both verbally and in writing. You will develop the ability to view the corporation as a whole and to appreciate the responsibilities and margins of freedom of top executives.
Dissertation
Teaching is delivered via a combination of small group lectures and group-based tutorial coursework (oral and written presentation), and assessment is via individual coursework (oral and written presentation) and examinations. You will be encouraged throughout to undertake independent study to supplement what is being taught/learnt and to broaden your personal knowledge.
All modules are delivered in a block teaching, allowing students to concentrate on each subject. All teaching is conducted in English.
All teaching is conducted in English.
After finishing your programme, you will receive your degree certificate from the Lancaster University UK.
Knowledge in management, marketing, analytics, financial and corporate management is seen by leading companies as the start of a fast track to promotion for highflyers with a numerate or scientific background. Project Management skills are also highly sought after by companies due to a need for improved project success rates and more global and complex project organisations. There is a continually growing market for Management graduates which is in need for various roles from support to strategic leadership. Studies have shown that obtaining a postgraduate degree, will land you not only obtain a better starting job but also accelerates your career.
Graduates from this course can expect to work in managerial roles in general, but more specifically as:
Leipzig mirrors the worldwide demand for well-qualified and competent managers. Its diverse company landscape that comprises of consultancies to startups and multinationals are for the lookout of young talent that manages their people and projects sensibly and with foresight. A postgraduate degree in management allows you to work in leadership and managerial roles for local companies like Deloitte, EY, EEX Group, Spreadgroup, Amazon or DHL to name a few. However, you are not confined to work in these industries. All of Leipzig’s five main industry clusters, may it be automotive, IT or healthcare business employ managers that match your interdisciplinary interests and values.
“Numerous companies of distinction such as Appsfactory, T-Systems MMS, SoftwareONE, ipoque – a Rohde & Schwartz company, Mercateo, adesso, CHECK 24 – Germany’s most popular comparison site, and the E-commerce pioneer Spreadshirt, underline the Leipzig Region’s status as one of Germany’s top IT locations.”
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