Leadership and Management
Designed for professionals working at middle to senior management level, who are seeking to enhance the knowledge and skills required for effective leadership and management.
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The Leadership and Management course adopts a philosophy of continuing professional development, where you will undertake work-based projects and complete an extensive work-based dissertation, to be of strategic value to your organisation. This course has been designed to offer a dual accreditation route with the Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM) Level 7 Diploma in Leadership and Management - a pioneering approach within the UK.
Module Overview
The MSc Leadership and Management will give you the opportunity to explore the behaviours and the role of leadership and how it may influence the individual, the team and the organisation. Theories of leadership will be discussed and applied to your own leadership practice and that of your organisation.
Leadership and Followership
Designed to develop your skills of critical evaluation in relation to leadership and followership theory. Supports you to reflect on your own leadership and followership.
Global and Strategic Issues in Leadership and Management
Strategic skills and understanding are essential for leadership. You will undertake a strategic enquiry in this module usually based on your own organisation.
Research Methods
Gain the skills and knowledge required in relation to methodology and methods to undertake your leadership and management research, particularly your dissertation.
Strategic Leadership
Gain knowledge and understanding of benchmarking, setting new metrics, developing strategic plans, and leading/managing for high performance. You will undertake a live project usually in your own organisation.
Understanding and Managing Change
You will examine leadership and management in relation to change, specifically looking into the business case for change by undertaking a live project usually in your own organisation.
Coaching for Executive Leadership and Management
This module will build your skills in relation to the use of coaching as a management tool for enhancing goal-orientated performance.
Dissertation
Undertake an in-depth academic study whereby you will critically evaluate literature and use this to underpin a piece of primary research normally within your organisation.
ENTRY REQUIREMENTS
Typical qualification requirements:
- A minimum 2:2 Honours degree or an equivalent qualification, and have at least 2 years significant leadership or management/matrix management experience.
- Applicants who are also on an accelerated graduate scheme will also be considered.
- Assessments are work-based so the course is only available part-time and students should normally be in an appropriate professional role to undertake the live work-based projects on the course.
Additional requirements include:
Applicants may be required to attend an interview.
International applications welcomed:
We welcome international applications with equivalent qualifications of our entry requirements. For more details related to your country of residence please view our dedicated country pages.
English language requirements
International applicants will need to have achieved an overall of IELTS 6.0 with a minimum of 5.5 in each component/TOEFL 72 overall and a minimum of 18 in reading, 17 in listening, 20 in speaking and 17 in writing or equivalent.
Equivalents can be located on our English Language pages.
If you have previously studied through the medium of English IELTS might not be required, please visit our country specific page for further details. If your country is not featured, please contact us.
If you do not meet the English entry criteria please visit our Pre-Sessional course pages.
Contextual offers
We may make you a lower offer based on a range of factors, including your background (where you live and the school or college that you attended for example), your experiences and individual circumstances (as a care leaver, for example). This is referred to as a contextual offer and we receive data from UCAS to support us in making these decisions.
USW prides itself on its student experience and we support our students to achieve their goals and become a successful graduate. This approach helps us to support students who have the potential to succeed and who may have faced barriers that make it more difficult to access university.
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Fees and Funding
Additional Costs
As a student of USW, you’ll have access to lots of free resources to support your study and learning, such as textbooks, publications, online journals, laptops, and plenty of remote-access resources. Whilst in most cases these resources are more than sufficient in supporting you with completing your course, additional costs, both obligatory and optional, may be required or requested for the likes of travel, memberships, experience days, stationery, printing, or equipment.
*Obligatory
£250
Students on this course may be able to obtain the ILM Level 7 Diploma in Leadership and Management (subject to meeting the ILM's requirements). Students wishing to do this will be charged £250 (price correct at time of writing).
Course Highlights
How you’ll learn
Throughout the course you will undertake several bespoke work-related assignments and gain additional support through your course tutors. Delivery is over three years, part-time only by blended learning. Each module is generally delivered over two weekends on a Saturday and Sunday, but this does vary depending on the nature of the module. Delivery is usually face-to-face but some sessions, particularly individual supervisory meetings are online. Delivery sessions are normally approximately every six weeks.
Assessment
There are no examinations, and all modules are assessed through course work. Assessments are work-based so students should normally be in work to undertake the course.