Management

This programme is directed to you who already have a Bachelors Degree in a specific subject area and who are interested in a career as a manager in your future working life. Upon completion of the programme. You will be able to deal with complex management problems and understand the conditions of management in your specific field of expertise. You will also be able to reflect on your own role as a leader as well as demonstrate an ability to assess social and ethical consequences of managerial decisions.

MSc Programme Coordinator: Professor Alexander Styhre

Deputy MSc Programme Coordinator: Niklas Egels-Zandén

Administrative Coordinator: Marcus Lange

About the programme

The programme provides an intellectually challenging environment with a wide range of courses, combining theoretical studies with practical realities. When You are able to independently account for a theoretical argument, apply this to practical reality and, at the same time, develop both, we can say that we have reached our aim. This program is directed to students who are interested in a career as a manager in their future working life. Upon completion of the program students will be able to deal with complex management problems and understand the conditions of management in their specific field of expertise. They will also be able to reflect on their own role as a leader as well as demonstrate an ability to assess social and ethical consequences of managerial decisions.

The Master of Science in Management provides an intellectually challenging learning environment with a wide range of courses, combining theoretical studies with practical realities. The programme curriculum has five components:

1. Key knowledge 2. Leadership 3. Tailoring your programme 4. Ethics and sustainability 5. Key skills

Key knowledge
To achieve a leadership position in any organization, there are certain things you must know. The core courses provide you with an understanding of all the key areas of general management. They balance the theoretical elements that underpin the behaviour of individuals, firms, markets and economies, with many applied and practical aspects of the various business disciplines.

Leadership
This cross-disciplinary part of the programme allows you to take stock of your personal leadership aspirations and capabilities, and focus on becoming an effective, inspirational and responsible leader. It comprises Management and Leadership, Human Resource Management and Preparing for Leadership.

Tailoring your programme
The MSc in Management is designed to be tailored to your individual interests and goals. Our elective portfolio is continually updated to reflect developments in all areas of management thinking. The research project is a substantial piece of work that focuses your learning on an area of particular interest to you.

Ethics and sustainability
Moral and ethical issues are key components of all courses. The Master of Science in Management also provides students with the opportunity to go deeper into the moral and ethical concerns for leaders and businesses in today¿s society. This is done in the courses Consumption and Markets, Organizing Sustainable Society and Preparing for leadership.

Key skills
The Master of Science in Management is designed to maximise your personal and professional effectiveness across a range of capabilities necessary to be a successful leader. Our core courses put particular focus on developing communication skills, team working, writing skills, performance feedback and coaching.