Welcome to the People, Management

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Postgraduate Open Day 26 November 2008

• Welcome to the People, Management Organisations
  Division at Manchester Business School
• Professor Fang Lee Cooke

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Manchester Business SchoolSome statistics

• 225 academic staff (and 67 Researchers in 10
  Research Centres)
• More than 1300 undergraduate students
• More than 1300 postgraduate students (MSc, MRes,
  MPhil, PhD, MBA)
• 2,500 blended learning students
• Covers all business and management subjects for
  Masters and Doctoral

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Manchester Business School

• 21 MSc/MBus courses in all Business and
  Management subjects
• Intended as leading to careers in management and
  consultancy in public and private sectors
• Also a training for Doctoral Study in MBS or
  elsewhere

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Manchester Business SchoolResearch

• All partners rated 5 or 5 in the last RAE
• Annual income from research grants and contracts
  4 million
• Aiming for 5 performance (or equivalent) across
  the board at the next (2008) RAE
• Research covers the spectrum from blue sky to
  very applied

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Some MBS Research Centres

• Centre for the Analysis of Investment Risk
• Centre for Equality and Diversity at Work
• Centre for Research in Innovation and Competition
  (CRIC)
• Policy Research in Engineering, Science and
  Technology (PREST)
• European Work and Employment Research Centre
  (EWERC)
• Operations Management Research Centre
• Public Policy and Management (Herbert Simon
  Institute)
• Centre for Corporate Communications
• Centre for International Business and Management
• Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
• International Business Research Centre (IBRC)

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Careers

• Access to University of Manchester Careers
  Service (finest in the UK)
• Special careers advice sessions for MBS PG
  students every Wednesday in February and March
• www.careers.manchester.ac.uk/events

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People Management and Organisations Division

• MSc Human Resource Management Industrial
  Relations
• MSc International Human Resource Management
  Comparative Industrial Relations
• MSc Organisational / Managerial Psychology
• MSc Chinese and Business Management
• MBus Global Business Analysis

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MSc Chinese Business and Management

• A multi-disciplinary taught course focusing on
  business and management in the Chinese context.
  These include, for example, Chinese-owned and
  foreign-owned businesses operating in China, as
  well as Chinese multinational firms operating
  outside China.
• The course examines in depth a wide range of
  issues related to Chinese business and management
  and its cultural and institutional environment.
• The course takes a comparative and international
  approach to the study of Chinese business and
  management issues. In other words, China is not
  studied in isolation but in the global context.
• The course is delivered by academic members of
  staff who have internationally renowned expertise
  on Chinese business and management, politics and
  cultural studies.
• It is aimed at graduates who are interested in
  pursuing a career in multinational firms that
  have or are developing business relationships
  with China or Chinese multinational firms. The
  course will also be useful for government
  officials, NGOs workers and those who have work
  experience in (multinational) firms that have
  business relationships with China, if they wish
  to deepen their knowledge of China.

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MSc HRM Industrial RelationsMSc International
HRM Comparative Industrial Relations
HRM, Employment Relations and LawSubject Area
Group

• Group Structure
• MSc HRMIR and MSc IHRMCIR located in HRMERL
• Six Professors and approximately 13 teaching
  staff in total
• European Work and Employment Research Centre and
  the Centre for Fairness at Work

• Major research themes
• Comparative employment systems
• Fair treatment at work
• HRM in health services
• Comparative Industrial Relations
• Participation

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MSc HRM Industrial RelationsMSc International
HRM Comparative Industrial Relations

• Course Objectives
• To provide a basic theoretical foundation for the
  study of industrial relations and human resource
  management, as well as a more contemporary
  analysis of changing employment practices.
• The MSc Human Resource Management and Industrial
  Relations traces developments in the employment
  relationship in the UK and comparatively, whereas
  the MSc International Human Resource Management
  and Comparative Industrial Relations examines
  international developments in human resource
  management and industrial relations
• To give students a grounding in research methods,
  including techniques of data collection and
  analysis, so that they can apply those methods
  appropriately either in the business world or in
  academic-based research.
• To equip students with competencies in various
  practical key skills that are required in their
  future careers and are sought after by employing
  organisations.
• To provide a strong platform for subsequent
  doctoral work and research
• The two courses are accredited by the CIPD and
  offer graduate member level

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MSc HRM Industrial Relations
Course units (this may change slightly in
2009-10)

• Semester 1 (15 credits per unit)
• HRM 1
• HRM 2
• Employment Policy and Practice 1
• Generic Research Methods
• Research Methods for Organisations

• Semester 2 (15 credits per unit)
• MNCs and Comparative Employment Systems
• Employment Law
• Industrial Relations
• Dissertation over the summer

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MSc International HRM Comparative Industrial
Relations
Course units (this may change slightly in
2009-10)

• Semester 1 (15 credits per unit)
• HRM 1
• Comparative IR
• Research Methods for Organisations
• One of the following options
• HRM 2
• International Management

• Semester 2 (15 credits per unit)
• MNCs and Comparative Employment Systems
• International Human Resource Management
• International Labour Law and Regulation
• One of the following options
• Management of International Organisational Change
  
• Organisational Development
• Dissertation over the summer

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MSc HRM and Industrial RelationsMSc
International HRM and Comparative Industrial
Relations

• Graduates from the course have gone on to a wide
  variety of careers and further study, mostly, but
  not exclusively, in related fields. These include
  HR consultancy at PwC, HR roles at the United
  Nations, Nestlé, Northern Foods, LOréal, the
  NHS, Scottish Power, Grant Thornton Accountants,
  local government, Co-operative Insurance, British
  Medical Association, employment law consultancy
  and lecturing/research.

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MSc Organisational /Managerial Psychology

• The only difference between the two degrees is in
  the entry requirement (OP requires GBR). They
  run as one programme and the student experience
  is the same.
• Research is usually carried out within
  consultancy firms or within specialist sections
  of large organisations.  
• Graduates are employed as internal consultants in
  large commercial and industrial organisations, in
  HR departments, in the Police, NHS and as
  management consultants.

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MBus Global Business Analysis

• Benefits of the client-facing project
• Following completion of semester two, you
  undertake client-facing project with an external
  organisation.
• The project, although unpaid, provides you with
  the opportunity to apply your learning to real
  business problems, gain valuable work experience
  and create networking opportunities.

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Course Outline

• Semester 1 Core Modules
• Semester 2 Option Modules
• Semester 3 Summer Project Period

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Global Business Strategy Module

• Strategic challenges and scenarios facing
  international organizations
• Case Study Analysis
• Global Business Strategic Management Project
• Past examples include
• Tescos entry into India
• Ford Motor Company in the Chinese Automobile
  Company
• Strategic analysis of Amazon
• Haiers Global Strategies

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Client-facing project

• Introduction
• Assessed Client-facing project Dissertation/Report
  
• Supervisors
• Supervisors role
• Your responsibility

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Procedure for securing a client-facing project

• Placement Officer
• Arrange interviews
• First appropriate offer
• Language tuition
• Arbitrator (Course Director)
• Project eligibility

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Examples

• Unilever- A competitive Analysis of Petrochemical
  industry in Middle East/ China
• Unilever The impact of energy management in
  China on downstream customers
• Accenture Outsourcing a Pensions Print and
  Dispatch Unit/ An analysis of the processes and
  systems used by the Human Resource Services
• Dissertation- An analysis of Westerns Firms Off
  shore strategies of production to Asia to cut
  Costs

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Any questions?

• For more information visit
• www.mbs.ac.uk