Course Outline
The UCC Executive MBA is designed to prepare its participants to become organisational managers, innovators and leaders.
It provides a strong understanding of the core organisational functions and disciplines, but moves beyond that to provide an integrative, critical understanding of the foundations and practice of management and leadership.
Programme participants develop an understanding of the core disciplines by exploring:
Organisational decision making and strategy
Operations management
Human resource management
Financial analysis and performance
Business innovation and transformation
Sustainability and governance
Leadership development
Participants develop an appreciation of how all aspects of a complex organisation interconnect, and an appreciation of the role each function must play in delivering on organisational goals.
For most participants, this requires an understanding of functions and disciplines outside of their existing professional competence.
Central to the development of this understanding of the complexity of organisations is our careful approach to class composition, intended to ensure that class participants are exposed to a variety of professional expertise and career backgrounds.
Considerable emphasis is placed on creating an environment conducive to the peer-to-peer learning that we believe is vital to the UCC Executive MBA experience.
The curriculum and module offerings for the cycle commencing January 2021 may be subject to change.
Why Choose This Course
The UCC Executive MBA provides a strong understanding of the core organisational functions and disciplines, but moves beyond that to provide an integrative, critical understanding of the foundations and practice of management and leadership.
UCC Executive MBA graduates have gone on to become Senior managers, organisational innovators, and business leaders.
Our graduates evidence comprehensive organisational and professional awareness.
Organisational Awareness
The UCC Executive MBA adopts an integrative approach to the diverse challenges of business and organisational life by encouraging participants to 'see across' the various functional and divisional structures that dominate many organisations, rather than only 'seeing within' their functional specialisations or roles.
Personal Awareness
Through the Leadership Development Framework, the UCC Executive MBA challenges you to consider your personal and professional development.
You will accelerate your thinking, decision-making and judgement capabilities by progressing through a connected sequence of analytical, action-based and reflective challenges.
Through analysing leadership case studies, through to live case studies, to the mapping of your own personal case study, you experience a learning journey deliberately designed to promote a different way of seeing yourself, your role and values, change possibilities and leadership potential.
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Course Practicalities
The UCC Executive MBA is a part-time, two-year, four teaching period course.
Each year is made up of two teaching periods (January to April and September to December) and each teaching period is made up of 12 lecture weeks.
Each lecture week is made up of 10 lecture hours, delivered on Fridays 9am - 4.30pm and
Saturdays 9am-1.30pm.
Lectures are held in The UCC Centre for Executive Education, Lapp's Quay, Cork.
Who teaches this course
Our teaching team is drawn from Departments within the Cork University Business School (CUBS), UCC and the School of Law, UCC.
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Accounting & Finance
Business Information Systems
Economics
Food Business & Development
Government
Law
Management & Marketing
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The course also utilises the expertise of many industry practitioners and guest lecturers.