Management, Organisation, and Leadership degrees

Degrees in Management, Organisation, and Leadership teach students how to manage operations and coordinate people in order to reach the goals set by organisations. Classes teach future graduates everything there is to know about running a business (or a department) and prepare them for administrative, managerial, and C-Level positions (e.g. CEO, CFO, COO).

You should study a degree in Management, Organisation, or Leadership if you’re a natural leader and enjoy guiding people and helping them achieve their full potential. It’s the ideal study option for students who keep their calm under pressure and can make decisions in high-risk high-reward situations.

Management, Organisation, and Leadership specialisations

While you can find general Management, Organisation, or Leadership programmes, most often courses focus on a specific business area or industry. There’s a wide range of specialisations you can choose from: International Management, Marketing Management, Supply Chain Management, Construction Project Management, Human Resource Management (HRM), Tourism Management, Investment Management, Engineering Management, etc.

Management, Organisation, and Leadership courses and skills

The courses you’ll take during a degree in Management, Organisation, or Leadership vary from one university and programme to another. However, you can expect to take classes in Business Negotiating, Designing a Business Plan, Leadership, Business Finance, Organisational Behaviour, Principles of Operation Management, Micro and Macroeconomics, etc. Depending on the specialisation, you can expect to combine these business classes with courses in Tourism, Marketing, Engineering, Accounting, Social Media, and others.

Students also develop skills that are essential to succeed in the business world. They range from communication, decision-making, problem-solving, and risk management to project management, motivation, delegation, creative thinking, and feedback sharing.

Management, Organisation, and Leadership careers

Students who graduate with a Management, Organisation, or Leadership degree will find work opportunities in any industry, at either public or private organisations and institutions. Some of the most popular jobs are business development manager, business adviser, data analyst, training and development manager, sales manager, HR manager, strategic planner, PR specialist, management consultant, project manager, etc.

Managing organisational change and behaviour

Our team explores the dynamic field of organisational change and behaviour. The research is underpinned by the latest academic thinking and translates this into actionable outcomes, which are specific to organisations and support research-informed, evidence-based management practice.

We develop partnerships with organisations and offer incisive, pioneering consulting and training services, putting research into practice and meeting client needs with tailored solutions.

This research group also values the active role that early career researchers and PhD students play in developing understanding and contributing to our supportive learning environment.

We have specific interests in empirically understanding:

• Management consultancy
• Managing organisational change
• The art of management and the relationships between art, creativity and business

Management consultancy

Research focuses on the study of the management consulting industry, its trends, the interpersonal dynamics of the consultant-client relationship, and the study of the factors which are responsible for the legitimation of consulting advice and the creation of value. Little is known about how clients and consultants work together and how impact is measured; our researchers strive to improve understanding of this key area.

Our current research projects explore the public sector’s consumption of consulting services in the UK. Over the last five years, government spending on consultancy reached £2.8 billion. Following the economic credit crunch, the initial allocation of funding has been reduced, resulting in the creation of an operational gap for how organisational development practices are used within the public sector. The overall aim of the research is to firstly establish, how and why there is a growing demand for consultants. Secondly, we aim to understand how the different stakeholders involved interpret notions of value.

Corporate identity remains a central theme for understanding the evolution and legitimisation of the management consulting industry and we explore a process-oriented perspective to its social construction.

We consider the development of management fads and look at how business ideas gain popularity, how these are commercialised by consultants and then, how they can decline.

In addition, we examine the growing trend of internationalisation of Western consulting firms into different markets and cultures like Saudi Arabia. This is an important research area as little is currently known about how business models are contextualised within different social-cultural settings. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/iPyR6ItXRfo?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.brighton.ac.uk

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Dr Stephanos Avakian, explaining about management consultancy

Managing organisational change

Understanding how best to manage organisational change is vital. New technology, the increased pace of communication and shifts in roles throughout society mean that change is an integral part of the economy.

Our research team explore how and why change occurs and debunk the myths which complicate the study and practice of managing change.

By challenging popular assumptions about failure rates and barriers to change, our research identifies effective change management strategies, including participative approaches where employers and employees collaborate on a shared vision.

Current research interests include the evaluation of change initiatives, historiographies of change, the leadership of change, change agency and the convergence of innovations, projects and change.