The Masters in International Management is conceived as a first step in your management development. It will provide you with analytical and conceptual tools that combine academic arguments with a practical and action learning approach to contemporary international management.

programme will enable you to develop a comprehensive knowledge of the key aspects of international management essential for a career in international business. The programme is designed to give you a critical appreciation of the multidisciplinary nature of contemporary management in a range of international contexts. The MA is, therefore, aimed at students who wish to study a broad range of management functions.

The course will make you familiar with:

• many of the varied and complex problems that arise in management in an international context
• the kinds of solutions that have been developed
• the implementation and evaluation issues which arise.

The programme is based on an international perspective to ensure relevance in the contemporary management environment. In this context, non-UK graduates play a very important role for enriching the overall international learning experience.

The course seeks to provide you with a thorough understanding of the internationalisation of management activities and functions and to develop skills necessary to operate successfully as managers in a modern global business world.

Course modules

Year 1

Core

• Managing in the international business environment
• International marketing
• International financial reporting and governance
• International human resource management
• Research methods
• Language unit (optional)
• Fundamentals of international management
• Research methods

Options

• Knowledge management
• European management and business strategy
• International employment relations
• Corporate finance
• E-commerce in the contemporary world
• Project management
• Culture and communication in international business
• Residential weekend in semester 2

Year 2

• Dissertation

Employability and academic progression

Employment prospects for graduates of the MA in International Management are excellent, with demand outstripping supply in the global business environment for masters graduates who wish to start a career in management. Successful students can, in addition to general management, enter a variety of roles in marketing, finance and human resource management.

In this respect the personal development emphasis on the course reflects the skills in demand for flexible roles in managing across a variety of organisational cultures and functions inside multinational companies. This is the emphasis in the stage two residential.

LSBU is committed to supporting you develop your employability and succeed in getting a job after you have graduated. Your qualification will certainly help, but in a competitive market you also need to work on your employability, and on your career search. Our Employability Service will support you in developing your skills, finding a job, interview techniques, work experience or an internship, and will help you assess what you need to do to get the job you want at the end of your course. LSBU offers a comprehensive Employability Service, with a range of initiatives to complement your studies, including:

• direct engagement from employers who come in to interview and talk to students
• Job Shop and on-campus recruitment agencies to help your job search
• mentoring and work shadowing schemes.