MBA Handbook, The
Description
The MBA Handbook, 9th Edition by Cameron is a vital resource for MBA and other postgraduate management students to gain maximum learning benefit from their programme. This clearly structured handbook addresses the specific challenges of management study and the transferable skills required to meet these, including:
- Managing self, time, stress and the risks associated with study
- Learning and professional development, including reflective and action learning, critical reading and thinking and using data and other evidence
- Working with others, including teamwork and leadership, group creativity and problem solving
- Demonstrating learning, including academic writing for assignments and exams, making presentations, building portfolio, and assessment for and during employment
- Consultancy, research and project management
- With real-life case studies, business examples, new activities and exercises in every chapter, this successful text is designed to prepare and support students early in their studies, at key points during the programme, and well into their subsequent career.
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Sheila Cameron has years of experience of the particular needs of these students as MBA Director at the Open University Business School. She was involved in the development of the school's pioneering MBA programme, and subsequently developed its Masters in HRM. She has been external examiner for management programmes at a wide range of universities. Sheila is also the author of The Business Students Handbook.
Content
Preface
Acknowledgements
Guided tour
Part 1 Understanding the challenge
- Orientation to postgraduate management learning and the role of the handbook
- Theory, practice and ethics in management learning
Part 2 Transferable personal skills
- Managing yourself and other stakeholders
- Managing your time
Part 3 Transferable learning skills
- Managing your learning
- Professional development
- Critical use of ideas and information
- Diagrams and infographics
- Teamwork, communication and leadership
- Case studies, complexity and consultancy
- Information from numbers
Part 4 Skills for assessment
- Assessment methods, stakeholders and grades
- Writing for business and assessment
- Effective presentations
- Examinations
Part 5 Completing your qualification and using it
- Academic and work-based projects, and dissertations
- Applying your skills to your career
References and bibliography
Index
