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Programme Code: TMGLMG2

Department: Management

For students starting this programme of study in 2021/22

Guidelines for interpreting programme regulations

Classification scheme for the award of a taught master's degree (eight units)
Exam sub-board local rules

A two-year programme. Students take courses to the value of eight units but those units are not necessarily spread over the two years.

The second year includes a dissertation. Students complete the course MG488 GMiM Capstone Course - Management in Action (H) over both years, Part A (unassessed) in Year 1 and Part B (assessed) in Year 2.

All students are required to attend MG4A1 Introduction to Studying for GMiM.

Students may choose to concentrate their electives in a certain topic area and may elect to have one of the elective titles attached to their degree certificate and transcript if the title reflects the course of study followed by the student. The possible titles are listed as headings within the Elective Courses below with the courses attached to those areas listed beneath them. If no such election is made, the degree certificate will state 'Management' without further specification.

Students may apply for an exemption from the following core courses taking place in Year 1: MG431 Managerial Economics, MG4E2 Marketing Management and MG434 Organisational Behaviour. A maximum of two course exemptions may be permitted for each student.

Please note that places are limited on some optional courses. Admission onto any particular course is not guaranteed and may be subject to timetabling constraints and/or students meeting specific prerequisite requirements.

Paper

Course number, title (unit value)

Year 1

Introductory course

MG4A1 Introduction to Studying for GMiM (0.0)

Paper 1

MG458 Foundations of Management I: Organisations and Management Theory (0.5) and MG459 Foundations of Management 2 (0.5) (withdrawn 2025/26)

Paper 2

MG431 Managerial Economics (0.5)

And one from:

MY451L Introduction to Quantitative Analysis (0.5) (withdrawn 2023/24)

MY451M Introduction to Quantitative Analysis (0.5) (withdrawn 2023/24)

MY452L Applied Regression Analysis (0.5) # (withdrawn 2023/24)

MY452M Applied Regression Analysis (0.5) # (withdrawn 2023/24)

(OR)Upon satisfactorily demonstrating that they have a degree in economics and have passed, as part of that degree, a course in managerial economics, microeconomics or industrial organisation, students may be exempted from MG431 and will be free to take an elective course, subject to the approval of the Programme Director. Students must select one from:

MY451L Introduction to Quantitative Analysis (0.5) (withdrawn 2023/24)

MY451M Introduction to Quantitative Analysis (0.5) (withdrawn 2023/24)

MY452L Applied Regression Analysis (0.5) # (withdrawn 2023/24)

MY452M Applied Regression Analysis (0.5) # (withdrawn 2023/24)

and 0.5 units from the Elective Courses listed below:

Elective Courses

Paper 3

MG434 Organisational Behaviour and Leadership (0.5) and MG4E2 Marketing Management (0.5)

(OR)Upon satisfactorily demonstrating that they have a degree in marketing, or in management of business administration with a significant concentration in marketing, students may be exempted from MG4E2 and will be free to take an elective course, subject to the approval of the Programme Director. Students must select courses to the value of 1.0 unit(s), which may include MG434 Organisational Behaviour (0.5), and a further 0.5 units from the Elective Courses listed below:

MG434 Organisational Behaviour and Leadership (0.5)

Elective Courses

(OR)Upon satisfactorily demonstrating that they have a degree in management of business administration with significant knowledge of organisational behaviour, students may be exempted from MG434 and will be free to take an elective course, subject to the approval of the Programme Director.Students must select courses to the value of 1.0 unit(s), which may include MG4E2 Marketing Management (0.5), and a further 0.5 units from the Elective Courses listed below:

MG4E2 Marketing Management (0.5)

Elective Courses

Paper 4

Courses to the value of 0.5 or 1.0 full unit from the Elective Courses listed below:

Elective Courses

Compulsory course

As part of Paper 4, students also take the compulsory unassessed part of MG488:

MG488A Management in Action (0.0)

Year 2

Paper 5

Courses to the value of 1 unit(s) from the following:

MG468 Foundations of Management II: Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility (0.5) # and MG488B GMiM Capstone Course - Management in Action (0.5)

Paper 6

Courses to the value of 1.0 full units from the Elective Courses listed below. At least 0.5 units must be an approved methodology course.

Elective Courses

Paper 7

Courses to the value of 1.0 or 1.5 full units from the Elective Courses listed below depending on the courses taken under Paper 4.

Elective Courses

Paper 8

MG470 Management Dissertation (1.0) #

Elective Courses

Elective courses open to ALL GMiM students
Courses from the list below, or another MSc-level elective course which is offered in the School, subject to approval of the course leader and the Programme Director:

AC411 Accounting, Strategy and Control (0.5)

AC412 Accountability, Organisations and Risk Management (0.5)

AC415 Management Accounting for Decision Making (0.5)

AC416 Topics in Financial Reporting (0.5) #

AC417 Corporate Financial Disclosure and Investor Relations (0.5)

AC444 Valuation and Security Analysis (0.5) #

AC470 Accounting in the Global Economy (0.5) #

AC490 Management Accounting, Decisions and Control (0.5)

AC491 Financial Accounting, Reporting and Disclosure (0.5)

DV423 Global Political Economy of Development (0.5) # (suspended 2025/26)

DV424 International Institutions and Late Development (0.5)

FM471 Sustainable Finance and Impact Investing (0.5) #

FM472 International Finance (0.5) #

FM473A Financial Markets (0.5) #

FM473W Financial Markets (0.5) #

FM474A Managerial Finance (0.5)

FM476 Entrepreneurial Finance (0.5) #

GI409 Conceptual Foundations in Gender, Development and Globalization (0.5) #

GI420 Feminist Perspectives on Transnational Development (0.5)

MA423 Optimisation Theory and Modelling (0.5) #

MA427 Nonlinear Optimisation and Applications (0.5) #

MC408 Theories and Concepts in Media and Communications (0.5) #

MG401 Operations Management for Management Consultancy (0.5) #

MG404 Consumer Insights: Behavioural Fundamentals (0.5)

MG409 Auctions and Game Theory (0.5) #

MG418 Open Innovation (0.5)

MG421 International Business Strategy and Emerging Markets (0.5) #

MG452 Behavioural Economics for Management (0.5) #

MG456 Group & Team Decision-Making Processes (0.5) # (suspended 2025/26)

MG460 Emergencies Management: Humanitarian Intervention and Digital Innovation (0.5) (suspended 2025/26)

MG472 Management and Socioeconomics of Digital Innovation (0.5) #

MG473 Negotiation Analysis (0.5)

MG477 The Power of Incentives in Organisations (0.5)

MG478 The Management of People in Global Companies (0.5)

MG479 Information Systems for the Public Sector: Digital Government and Service Innovation (0.5) (suspended 2025/26)

MG481 Innovating Organisational Information Technology (0.5) #

MG482 Innovation and Technology Management (0.5)

MG483 eHealth: Policy, Strategy and Systems (0.5) #

MG486 Digital-first Strategy in the Generative Economy (0.5)

MG487 Innovation and Information Systems: Concepts and Perspectives (0.5)

MG492 Data Governance: Privacy, Openness and Transparency (0.5)

MG4A3 Incentives and Governance in Organisations (0.5) #

MG4A8 Strategy for the Information Economy (0.5) #

MG4B1 Corporate Strategy (0.5) #

MG4B6 Design and Management of Organisations (0.5)

MG4B7 Leading Organisational Change (0.5) (suspended 2025/26)

MG4B9 The World Trading System (0.5) # (suspended 2025/26)

MG4C3 Information Technology and Service Innovation (0.5)

MG4D2 International Employment Relations (0.5) #

MG4D3 The Dark Side of the Organisation (0.5) #

MG4D5 Leadership in Organisations: Theory and Practice (0.5)

MG4F2 Marketing Analytics II: Analytics for Managing Innovations, Products and Brands (0.5)

MG4F3 Digital Marketing (0.5) #

MG4G4 Topics in Management Research (0.5)

MG4J3 Principles of Pricing (0.5) #

MG4J6 Brand Strategy (0.5)

MG4J7 Consumer Neuroscience (0.5)

MG4J8 Managing Artificial Intelligence (0.5)

MG4J9 Responsible Digital Innovation: Ethics at Work (0.5) (suspended 2025/26)

MG4L2 Managing the Environmentally Sustainable Enterprise (0.5)

MG4L3 Managerial Macroeconomics (0.5)

MG4L4 Building Positive Workplaces: Fostering Wellbeing and Meaning at Work (0.5)

MG4L5 Managing Diversity in Organisations: An Evidence-Based Approach (0.5)

MY423 Interview Methods for Social Science Research (0.5) #

MY451A Introduction to Quantitative Analysis (0.5)

MY451W Introduction to Quantitative Analysis (0.5)

MY452A Applied Regression Analysis (0.5) #

MY452W Applied Regression Analysis (0.5) #

MY455 Multivariate Analysis and Measurement (0.5) #

PB418 Corporate Communications (0.5)

PP4E4 Analytic frameworks for policy evaluation (0.5) # (suspended 2025/26)

PP4E5 Innovations in the governance of public services delivery (0.5)

PP4G3 Designing and Managing Change in the Public Sector (0.5) (suspended 2025/26)

ST429 Statistical Methods for Risk Management (0.5) #

Elective courses open to GMiM students wishing to have an elective title attached to their degree in Year 2
Students who wish to have one of the elective titles attached to their degree certificate and transcript should choose from within the appropriate sub-list those number of courses that will satisfy the unit requirement for that title.
Accounting and Finance
To qualify for this elective title to be attached to their degree certificate, students must take and pass courses from this sub-list to the value of 2.5 full unit(s). At least 1.0 unit(s) of courses must be from the Department of Accounting and at least 1.0 unit(s) of courses must be from the Department of Finance.

AC411 Accounting, Strategy and Control (0.5)

AC412 Accountability, Organisations and Risk Management (0.5)

AC415 Management Accounting for Decision Making (0.5)

AC416 Topics in Financial Reporting (0.5) #

AC417 Corporate Financial Disclosure and Investor Relations (0.5)

AC444 Valuation and Security Analysis (0.5) #

AC470 Accounting in the Global Economy (0.5) #

FM402 Financial Risk Analysis (0.5) #

FM412 Quantitative Security Analysis (0.5) #

FM413 Fixed Income Markets (0.5) #

FM421 Finance for Mergers, Buyouts and Corporate Restructurings (0.5) # A

FM429 Asset Markets A (0.5) #

FM431A Corporate Finance A (0.5) #

FM441 Derivatives (0.5) #

FM442 Quantitative Methods for Finance and Risk Analysis (0.5) #

FM445 Portfolio Management (0.5)

FM471 Sustainable Finance and Impact Investing (0.5) #

FM472 International Finance (0.5) #

FM473A Financial Markets (0.5) #

FM473W Financial Markets (0.5) #

FM474A Managerial Finance (0.5)

FM476 Entrepreneurial Finance (0.5) #

Accounting
To qualify for this elective title to be attached to their degree certificate, students must take and pass courses from this sub-list to the value of at least 2.0 full units.

AC411 Accounting, Strategy and Control (0.5)

AC412 Accountability, Organisations and Risk Management (0.5)

AC415 Management Accounting for Decision Making (0.5)

AC416 Topics in Financial Reporting (0.5) #

AC417 Corporate Financial Disclosure and Investor Relations (0.5)

AC444 Valuation and Security Analysis (0.5) #

AC470 Accounting in the Global Economy (0.5) #

Finance
To qualify for this elective title to be attached to their degree certificate, students must take and pass courses from this sub-list to the value of at least 2.0 full units.

FM402 Financial Risk Analysis (0.5) #

FM413 Fixed Income Markets (0.5) #

FM421 Finance for Mergers, Buyouts and Corporate Restructurings (0.5) # A

FM429 Asset Markets A (0.5) #

FM431A Corporate Finance A (0.5) #

FM441 Derivatives (0.5) #

FM442 Quantitative Methods for Finance and Risk Analysis (0.5) #

FM445 Portfolio Management (0.5)

FM471 Sustainable Finance and Impact Investing (0.5) #

FM472 International Finance (0.5) #

FM473A Financial Markets (0.5) #

FM473W Financial Markets (0.5) #

FM474A Managerial Finance (0.5)

FM476 Entrepreneurial Finance (0.5) #

Human Resource Management
To qualify for this elective title to be attached to their degree certificate, students must take and pass courses from this sub-list to the value of at least 2.0 full units.

MG473 Negotiation Analysis (0.5)

MG477 The Power of Incentives in Organisations (0.5)

MG478 The Management of People in Global Companies (0.5)

MG4A3 Incentives and Governance in Organisations (0.5) #

MG4B6 Design and Management of Organisations (0.5)

MG4B7 Leading Organisational Change (0.5) (suspended 2025/26)

MG4D2 International Employment Relations (0.5) #

MG4D3 The Dark Side of the Organisation (0.5) #

MG4D5 Leadership in Organisations: Theory and Practice (0.5)

PB418 Corporate Communications (0.5)

Information Systems and Digital Business
To qualify for this elective title to be attached to their degree certificate, students must take and pass courses from this sub-list to the value of at least 2.0 full units.

MG418 Open Innovation (0.5)

MG472 Management and Socioeconomics of Digital Innovation (0.5) #

MG479 Information Systems for the Public Sector: Digital Government and Service Innovation (0.5) (suspended 2025/26)

MG481 Innovating Organisational Information Technology (0.5) #

MG482 Innovation and Technology Management (0.5)

MG483 eHealth: Policy, Strategy and Systems (0.5) #

MG486 Digital-first Strategy in the Generative Economy (0.5)

MG487 Innovation and Information Systems: Concepts and Perspectives (0.5)

MG492 Data Governance: Privacy, Openness and Transparency (0.5)

MG4A8 Strategy for the Information Economy (0.5) #

MG4C3 Information Technology and Service Innovation (0.5)

MG4J8 Managing Artificial Intelligence (0.5)

Marketing and Consumer Behaviour
To qualify for this elective title to be attached to their degree certificate, students must take and pass courses from this sub-list to the value of at least 2.0 full units.

MC408 Theories and Concepts in Media and Communications (0.5) #

MG404 Consumer Insights: Behavioural Fundamentals (0.5)

MG452 Behavioural Economics for Management (0.5) #

MG455 Decisions, Biases and Nudges (0.5) #

MG456 Group & Team Decision-Making Processes (0.5) # (suspended 2025/26)

MG473 Negotiation Analysis (0.5)

MG4F2 Marketing Analytics II: Analytics for Managing Innovations, Products and Brands (0.5)

MG4F3 Digital Marketing (0.5) #

MG4J3 Principles of Pricing (0.5) #

MG4J7 Consumer Neuroscience (0.5)

PB418 Corporate Communications (0.5)

Strategy and International Business
To qualify for this elective title to be attached to their degree certificate, students must take and pass courses from this sub-list to the value of at least 2.0 full units.

MG401 Operations Management for Management Consultancy (0.5) #

MG421 International Business Strategy and Emerging Markets (0.5) #

MG430 Firms & Markets in Emerging Economies (0.5)

MG452 Behavioural Economics for Management (0.5) #

MG455 Decisions, Biases and Nudges (0.5) #

MG456 Group & Team Decision-Making Processes (0.5) # (suspended 2025/26)

MG472 Management and Socioeconomics of Digital Innovation (0.5) #

MG473 Negotiation Analysis (0.5)

MG477 The Power of Incentives in Organisations (0.5)

MG478 The Management of People in Global Companies (0.5)

MG4A3 Incentives and Governance in Organisations (0.5) #

MG4A8 Strategy for the Information Economy (0.5) #

MG4B1 Corporate Strategy (0.5) #

MG4B6 Design and Management of Organisations (0.5)

MG4B9 The World Trading System (0.5) # (suspended 2025/26)

MG4G4 Topics in Management Research (0.5)

Footnote for Elective Courses

A: FM421: Prerequisite FM431A / FM431W or FM473A / FM473W or FM474A / FM474W must also have been taken previously.

Footnotes

# means there may be prerequisites for this course. Please view the course guide for more information.

A: Elective Courses (click here to expand), FM421: Prerequisite FM431L / FM431M or FM473L / FM473M or FM474L / FM474M must also have been taken previously.


SUPPLEMENTARY CRITERIA FOR PROGRESSION FROM THE FIRST TO THE SECOND YEAR OF MSC MANAGEMENT

The following rules set out what marks are required in order to be eligible to proceed into the second year. Students with the following mark profiles progress as follows:

Pass marks in all first year courses allows progression to year two.

A half unit Fail mark or a half unit Bad Fail mark with at least Pass marks in all other courses will allow progression to year two.

One full unit (or two half units) of Fail marks (which could include no more than one half unit Bad Fail mark) with at least Pass marks in all other courses, including one half unit of Merit marks will allow progression to year two.

Two Bad Fail marks (full or half units) will not allow progression to year two.

Three or more (full or half units) Fails or Bad Fail marks will not allow progression to year two.

Students must resubmit all failed components of assessments in courses in which they receive a Bad Fail mark in order to be eligible for the award of a degree. The Repeat Teaching Panel may consider an application for repeat tuition in any failed courses from a student. Results obtained following a repeated attempt at assessment shall bear their normal value.


Note for prospective students:

For changes to graduate course and programme information for the next academic session, please see the graduate summary page for prospective students. Changes to course and programme information for future academic sessions can be found on the graduate summary page for future students.