Courses Description:

Core Courses:

MBA625          Business Research Methods

This course advances students’ ability to think, adapt, build, apply, evaluate, and conduct business research in support of business decision-making. Topics include research design process, designing a research proposal, selecting the research instrument, ascertaining reliability and validity of instruments, scale measurements, sampling, and data collection methods, using and interpreting the results of univariate and multivariate statistical techniques, and writing the final report.

MBA600          Managerial Economics

The first section of the course covers essential concepts such as supply, demand elasticities and efficiencies in Industries. The subsequent section focuses on advanced topics in market analysis viz. role of externalities and imperfect/ asymmetric info, with specific reference to UAE/GCC/MEA economies.

MBA611          Accounting and Financing decisions

This course blends the use of information (financial and non-financial) for making operating and financing decisions. It links information to manage organizations and finance their activities. Topics covered include financial reporting and analysis, managing working capital, sources of financing business activities, equity analysis and valuation, risk analysis and decision-making under uncertainty, Financial planning, and capital budgeting decisions.

MBA 606         Marketing Management

This course focuses on managing the marketing functions in a dynamic, competitive environment. It introduces the students to a simulation program that gives a real-world scenario of the strategies for the achievement of competitive advantage in product, marketing information, research, consumer behavior, segmentation, the four P’s, and global marketing. StratSim Marketing is a comprehensive marketing strategy simulation based on the automobile industry that demonstrates the impact of marketing decisions on the other functional areas of the business. Marketing strategy is at the core of all decisions in the simulation. Teams target consumer segments and B2B opportunities based on market attractiveness and core competencies, using advanced marketing research techniques such as conjoint analysis, perceptual mapping, and concept testing to identify their customers’ needs and interest

MBA620          Organizational Behavior

This course provides a framework for understanding an individual’s organizational beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors. This course covers how individuals and  groups collaborate to achieve long-term goals, as well as the reasons for their success or failure. Finally, students will study how to govern the behavior of individuals and groups within an organization in order to fulfill organizational goals in light of the current emphasis on agility and innovation. SDG 3 is represented by one of the CLOs in this course (Good Health and Well Being).

MBA641          Ethics, CSR and Corporate Governance

In a world economy that is becoming increasingly integrated and interdependent, the relationship between business and society is becoming more complex. The globalization of business, the emergence of civil society organizations in many nations, and new government regulations and international agreements have significantly altered the job of managers and the nature of strategic decision making within the firm. This course draws on the latest research to address the challenges facing business organizations and their stakeholders. More specifically, this course focuses on Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporate Governance, ethics within the UAE and international context. It is aligned with SDG 5 Gender Equality, SDG10 Reduced Inequalities and SDG11 Sustainability

MBA645          Strategic Management

The course is designed to integrate knowledge acquired from MBA earlier 6 courses and apply it to the management of the firm at the Corporate and Strategic planning level. Hands-on Simulation of business game at the MBA level and case analysis assure the student has mastered the tools, techniques, and methods of the Strategic Management Process. The course includes special topics that are of concern for the strategic competitiveness of organizations e.g., digital transformation, innovation, sustainable development, mergers & acquisitions, strategic agility and resilience, strategic foresight, etc. In this course students will act as managers making decisions that contribute to the success of a business.

Concentration Courses:

SHC 661         Contemporary and Sustainable Leadership

This course focuses on Contemporary and Sustainable Leadership practices within the UAE and international context. Sustainable leadership is all about adopting a responsible approach to the way that we lead, stopping to think about the wider impact of our actions on society and the environment. This might mean considering our wider stakeholder group, the natural systems within which we are operating and their limits.

SHC 662         Talent Management and Integrated HRM Practices

The course focuses on smart talent acquisition, integrative learning and development, competitive total rewards environment, and vital talent retention measures for the short- and long-term success of public and private sectors in the region UAE/GCC. Students will be exposed to critical conceptual, theoretical, and practical issues in each of these areas. Also, the course will provide a solid ground to discuss the real time case studies / challenges facing the organizations and the marketplace. One of the CLOs in this course is aligned to SDG 8 (Decent Work and Economic Growth)

SHC 663         Strategic Human Capital for Agile Organizations

This course focuses on Strategic Human Capital, which assists in the creation of a Sustainable Competitive Advantage by converting the workforce into a growth engine by aligning human capital practices with innovative strategic approach and how the new challenges are impacting these functions (e.g., technology and digitalization, internationalization, etc. in the UAE/GCC. This also highlights the need of harnessing culture to create leadership, increase integration, and enhance morale. Furthermore, the course assists in defining a clear agenda for how to enhance employee engagement in order to transform the organization to be sufficiently flexible and adaptable to respond quickly in today’s unpredictable environment. CLO 3 in this course is aligned to SDG 9 (Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation and entrepreneurship through startups)

MBA 664 Thesis – Strategic Human Capital

The purpose is to provide applied learning experience through thesis MSHC 704 in the organization. The course allows participants to demonstrate problem-solving skills to analyze highly complex issues with incomplete data and develop innovative solutions and proposals relevant to an academic/professional field, field of work or discipline. The course also provides an important link between the organization and the UD. As such, the Thesis should reflect a need of the organization while meeting the perceived needs and interests of the individual students. Thus, the student is required to develop an action-oriented management report. The Thesis report must be of a rigorous academic/ professional standard.