NGO Education Survey

CONTEXTUAL AND ORGANISATIONAL ANALYSIS OF THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR I

This module provides the underpinning for the discipline domain study for students undertaking research into the voluntary sector. The module will cover the following topics: Voluntary sector environment , management, culture and values , governance

Contemporary Issues for Business and Society

Explores the geo-political, economic, social and technological environments in which businesses operate and encourages you to reflect upon these issues.

Dissertation

The final element of the programme is the dissertation, which will provide you with an opportunity to design and undertake a piece of original research in a relevant area of social business or microfinance.

Global Social Entrepreneurship

Engages with internationally informed social entrepreneurship research and develops your understanding of international perspectives. The module also encourages your creative and critical thinking regarding social problems and potential solutions.

Global Strategy - Challenges and Choices

Enables you to develop an understanding of challenges and choices in the global business environment and implications for management.

Management Processes and Function

This module considers management processes and principles in voluntary organisations and provides an opportunity to consider their application within the functions of operations, personnel and marketing, highlighting the inter-relationships that exits

Manager's Environment

This module provides insights into the overall external context within which voluntary organisations operate and a framework in which to analyse and understand the effect of economic, political, social, technological and legal influences upon voluntary

Managing Information

This module provides students with the numeracy skills required to apply critical analysis to quantitative information for decision-making and control within organisations. It also develops an understanding of accounting as a process of identifying,

Managing People

This module is designed to create a framework within which students can prepare and begin to implement management development plans. The module has two dimensions; managing self and managing others. Managing self, or personal effectiveness, develops

Microfinance: Theory and Practice

Introduces concepts of microfinance. Equips students with knowledge of how global and local circumstances have shaped how microfinance is practiced and understood, and the knowledge and skills to determine what factors should be taken into account when critically evaluating the concept of microfinance, or when developing an enabling environment for microfinance to thrive.

Personal and Professional Development

Enables you to identify, understand, develop and articulate your personal abilities in the context of your future career aspirations.

Research Methods

Develops advanced skills related to arrange of research methods needed for academic and practical research at Masters level.

Social Business and The Social Economy

Introduces concepts of social business as an alternative to mainstream business. Equips you with the knowledge and skills to determine which factors to consider when developing your own social venture, or when creating a positive environment for social business and microfinance to succeed.