100% Online MBA Hospitality Management

Explore the foundational concepts and models of leadership, including transformational, inspirational, and charismatic leadership. You will also examine the sociological turn and development of critical leadership studies, and how culture can shape the identity and performance of leaders, as well as the expectations of followers. Additionally, you will learn about the challenges of working with diverse groups, including regional and national cultures, and how to exercise responsible leadership, including power, influence, and ethics. This module will provide you with the knowledge and skills necessary to become an effective and responsible leader in your chosen field.

Develop a critical understanding of essential management accounting and finance topics within a business environment and learn the importance of managing customer value parameters (cost, quality, and time) through management accounting practices for value creation.

Develop critical insights into the process of change management and explore the models of change management, and how these can be effectively implemented within organisations. You will examine how the process of change can be led, and moreover the specific roles people have in that change process. Leading change is not without its complexities and as such you will further consider the varying approaches that can be taken to minimise some of the challenges that organisations and stakeholders may experience from change.

Explore the sources of data and how data is collected, processed, and presented, and then continue the data lifecycle by considering how this is used within informed decision-making processes within contemporary enterprises. Upon completing this module, you will be able to answer questions such as: How can businesses be certain that their data is reliable and valid? How can they link that to a primary function within management and leadership, making decisions.

The module incorporates strategic concepts, tools, and techniques that organisations can employ to assess their environment and resources and make strategic decisions towards long-term success. The knowledge and skills developed in this module are transferrable and used in a broad range of management functions.

Evaluate and apply project management theories, tools, and techniques to design a project management approach based on a case study. Issues such as the nature and scope of a project, the project methodology, contracting and working with suppliers in project management, planning of project activities, delegation and team management, communications planning, quality management, cost planning and control, risk management, baselining and project change management, time control and project closure are all explored. Finally, you will gain an in-depth understanding of the higher-level function of managing and leading a project.

Critically evaluate a range of contemporary issues that affect the international hospitality industry, including the hospitality macro and microenvironment, ethics, environmental issues, demographic change, food waste, energy and water conservation, new technology, emerging markets and changing travel and leisure trends, natural and manmade disasters, contemporary corporate communication, policy and strategic planning, wellbeing, and accessibility.

Explore the principles and practices of innovation within contemporary enterprise and consider how innovative products are brought to market through the principles of entrepreneurialism. Utilising the hospitality industry as the environment in which a product is to be launched, you will research and develop an innovative product you propose bringing to the marketplace. You will critically evaluate the changing nature of the hospitality environment and how consumers are changing and formulate an innovative product that meets evolving or future consumer and market requirements.

Explore the developments in contemporary issues affecting hospitality operations and cover the core issues, including a critical analysis of various aspects of the external drivers and dynamics shaping the expectations of hospitality operations to be responsible and sustainable as an underpinning philosophy for hospitality organisations.

You will examine the evolution of expectations regarding organisations as good corporate citizens in a contemporary commercial context and the importance of this as a key strategic priority alongside the issues around getting it right and wrong within a commercial hospitality context. You will gain a critical understanding of global, local, and future-orientated benchmarks, including the UN Global Compact and Sustainable Development Goals and other suitable benchmarks are drawn upon to inform the students’ thinking and practice. Throughout this module, you will be tasked to audit an organisation’s current practice, appraise and map its impact based on researched and identified artefacts and make recommendations for how sustainable operations can be developed further.

Gain the knowledge and skills required to carry out a project at master’s level successfully. You will develop essential research skills and knowledge that you can apply within the context of business. Starting with developing a philosophical underpinning of knowledge appropriate for master’s level study, you will learn good research practice and research design. You will also explore the design of data collection instruments, data collection processes, data analysis and management methods, and research ethics.

This project enables you to build upon your programme modules to develop and apply the skills of research and independent inquiry to a self-selected project which contributes insights and advances understanding to a subject, field or profession. You will be required to design and undertake a small-scale independent research project, relevant to your field of study and/or professional practice, reflecting on the application of the insights you generate. You will be required to exhibit a professional approach, academic rigour, independence, critical thought and self-direction with the input of a supervisor.