MBA with Hospitality Management

Programme Overview

This module is a continuation of Research Methods for Business and Management I in which the student will complete the project or dissertation presented in the first module. 

Programme Overview

This module introduces a wide range of economic concepts, theories and analytical techniques. It considers of the fundamentals of supply and demand, the microeconomic theory of the firm, the macroeconomic fiscal policy and monetary policy, and selected topics, such as international trade, financial markets, economic growth, and externalities, both positive and negative. The supply and demand model is the fundamental market model where trade-offs and choices are considered by comparing benefits and costs. Product and market structures, including perfectly competitive, monopolistically competitive, oligopolies, and monopolies, are analysed at the firm level. Macroeconomic issues of fiscal and monetary policy are explored at an aggregate level. Finally, selected topics in international trade, financial markets, economic growth, and positive and negative externalities are examined. 

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During this course, you will learn about the critical financial fundamentals necessary for managing an organisation’s operational activities and achieving its strategic goals. You will learn about the time value of money, investing in various instruments, making critical decisions regarding capital expenditures, and various methods for successfully capitalising the firm. Managing critical cash flows and allocation of financial assets are also discussed in detail from a managerial perspective.

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Many business decisions throughout every level of an organisation are based on the information found on the company’s financial statements. During this course, you will analyse how small and large process changes can increase organisational efficiency and profits through analysing information on the financial statements. In addition, you will explore how decisions made about capital projects, long-term investments, and a company’s risk aversion impact the bottom line.

Programme Overview

This module aims to equip hospitality provision employees with the attitudes, skills, and behaviours needed to manage the complex and challenging relationship between temporary visitors to a destination and those who are responsible for caring for them. Temporary visitors are defined as individuals who spend 24 hours or more in a location outside of their normal residence; and care of those visitors is provided by organisations that provide accommodation, food and beverage, and activity products and services. 

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This module equips current and future leaders in the global world of hospitality management with insight into the multi-faceted domains that make up the industry. This new knowledge will allow for the formation of more precise planning in plotting their own future career path and business planning, possibly within in their existing domain, or probably with a newly formed international perspective and knowledge of how other sectors of the industry operate. It will cover core fundamentals of the industry make-up, providing an insight into both corporate philosophies and practices, as well as how they may be transformed into operational implications. The module concludes with a brief discussion on how these philosophies and practices may influence future career development.

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During this module, students will learn the skills and characteristics of an effective leader. Students will learn how to apply leadership skills during change and in multicultural and diverse environments. The common thread throughout the course will be leading with strong managerial ethics, emotional intelligence, and reflective leadership. The course will also examine the relationship between contemporary leadership issues and classical leadership theory.

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This module explores the design and implementation of the best combination of marketing efforts to carry out an organisation’s strategy in its target markets. You will develop an understanding of how an organisation can benefit by creating and delivering value to its customers, and stakeholders, and the skills in applying the analytical concepts and tools of marketing to such decisions as segmentation and targeting, branding, pricing, distribution, and promotion.

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You will gain a deep understanding of operations management and how it is critical to your success in any field, from consulting to entrepreneurship to general management. Detailed in this course are major problems and decision processes of operations management such as operations strategy, process and capacity planning, facilities planning, aggregate planning, materials planning, and quality planning. 

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This module is designed for students to develop a comprehensive understanding of research in general and business. Both academic business research and business consultancy research are addressed in the module. 

The module examines the concepts and theories underlying research, as well as the practice of research. The module has an applied focus. The readings and assignments are designed to identify a feasible research topic and develop a research proposal for academic business or business consultancy research. How research problems and questions may be identified, and the process of achieving thoughtful, effective and efficient research design are examined. The importance of the literature review and how it can be carried out for optimal effectiveness in research are investigated.

In addition, the module provides an overview of research methodologies and methods and the techniques of the research process as applied to business, whether as a business consultant or as an academic researcher. The philosophical and epistemological assumptions underpinning the research approaches and methodologies, as well as their role in determining the design and implementation of the research, are studied. Besides these aspects, the ethical aspects of research and consultancy are also addressed. 

Programme Overview

This module aims to equip hospitality managers with the skills and knowledge to understand and apply the principles of managing yield from resources and space in the hospitality sector including accommodation, food and beverage and meeting and events. Students will gain a detailed understanding of the Yield and Revenue Management function within a hospitality organisation using tools and techniques to improve and evaluate the overall profitability of the operation. The module will focus on understanding the drivers for improving both the top line and the bottom line with tools and techniques specific to the hospitality sector.