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Education designed for impact

Our S.E.P programme is committed to shaping leaders ready to tackle the world's intricate challenges and catalyse economic growth—accessible entirely through our dynamic online platform.

How It Works:

  1. Select Your Preferred Modules (Craft your own Curriculum)
  2. Earn a CPD Certificate for each module completed
  3. Upgrade to a Full Master's Degree without any additional coursework but at an additional fee

What is the Special Executive Programme (S.E.P)?

The Special Executive Programme offers you the flexibility to select from a range of carefully designed, executive-level modules, enabling you to create a curriculum that directly supports your career development. Each module is a short, intensive course that focuses on high-impact, practical knowledge designed to fit around your professional commitments.

Steps to crafting your own curriculum

1.) Choose any six modules that align with your professional goals and interests.
Each module is carefully crafted to deliver high-impact learning and is tailored for executive-level professionals.

2.) Upon completing each module, you'll receive a CPD Accredited Certificate, demonstrating your mastery in the specific subject.
These certificates are recognized globally, enhancing your credentials as you advance your career.

3.) After completing at least five modules, you can upgrade your qualifications to a full Master’s Degree without any additional coursework at any of our prestigious affiliate universities in Europe or the USA.

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We offer a rich and innovative portfolio of in-person programmes, and a selection of online courses in a range of innovative formats.

Who Enrols?

This programme is ideal for the High-Performance Managers, CEOs, Founders, COOs, Entrepreneurs and Directors who work in critical roles and need an intensive course to cover the key areas that drive success and profit in business today.

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Leverage organisational resources to set your company apart and drive innovation for business performance.

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Why is it that some leaders inspire success, while others struggle to motivate their people? Why do some organisations thrive where others fail? Most importantly, how can any of us be certain our organisations will survive an uncertain future?

Leading Businesses into the Future offers leaders new insights into these questions, with a ground-breaking blended format that offers both a comprehensive review of your organisation and expert-led sessions on how to succeed in the modern economy.

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Discover the actions leaders must take to unite their people around meaningful work and steer their organisations to sustainable success.

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Gain the tools to build a positive environment with evidence-based techniques from our faculty and distinguished guest speakers.

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Gain the tools to build a positive environment with evidence-based techniques from our faculty and distinguished guest speakers.

We help you create the leaders of tomorrow for your organisation. Drive your business towards growth with employee development. Our programs are designed to identify, train and help develop the necessary skills for your employees.

This programme has an emphasis on developing global perspectives to ensure that participants are well prepared for the unique challenges of leading and innovating in an ever-changing, international business environment.

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Discover different stages of team development and leadership styles needed to move them toward success.

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Your employees gain practical insights from industry-wide leaders about team development.

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Exploring your options? Learn more about the programme

Choose any five or six modules that align with your current career goals and interests. Each module is designed to be delivered in a short, intensive format, ensuring you can quickly gain the skills you need without a long-term time commitment. Assessment is Assignment based.

Upon completing each module, you'll earn a CPD Accredited Certificate, recognized globally. These certificates not only enhance your professional credentials but also showcase your mastery in specific industry domains. Based on the completed assignment each module is a 20-credit module.

After completing a minimum of five modules, you can upgrade your qualification to a full Master's Degree with one of our renowned affiliate universities in Europe or the USA.

If you complete six modules, you'll have a direct pathway to earning your Master's Degree without additional coursework. Alternatively, if you choose five modules, you'll only need to complete a Graduation Project to achieve your degree.

If you have more questions, you can first go through the information on what it means to learn with MSBM and our study contract.

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Collaborate with ambitious professionals, develop your perspective and engage with a global business network.

Flexible and Concise

The S.E.P. is delivered online through a series of intensive short modules, allowing professionals to fit learning into their busy schedules without the long-term commitment of a traditional Master's programme.

Practical Relevance

Designed to deliver cutting-edge strategies and frameworks that you can apply to real-world challenges. You’ll gain valuable insights that enhance your decision-making and leadership skills, boosting your career trajectory.

Career-Enhancing

Crafted to advance your professional development by delivering the latest industry-relevant knowledge. Whether you’re aiming for a promotion, transitioning into a new role, or simply sharpening your leadership abilities.

Comprehensive Modular Education

This programme is a modular version of a Master's Programme, offering in-depth coverage of key subject areas in a concise and focused format.

Globally Recognized Certification

Upon completing each module, you will earn a CPD Accredited Certificate, recognized internationally, demonstrating your expertise and commitment to ongoing professional development.

Craft your own curriculum
Craft your own curriculum
Choose any five or six modules that align with your current career goals and interests. Each module is designed to be delivered in a short, intensive format, ensuring you can quickly gain the skills you need without a long-term time commitment. Assessment is Assignment based.
Earn a CPD Accredited Certificate
Earn a CPD Accredited Certificate
Upon completing each module, you'll earn a *CPD Accredited Certificate*, recognized globally. These certificates not only enhance your professional credentials but also showcase your mastery in specific industry domains. Based on the completed assignment each module is a 20-credit module.
Upgrade to a full Master's Degree
Upgrade to a full Master's Degree
After completing a minimum of five modules, you can upgrade your qualification to a full Master’s Degree with one of our renowned affiliate universities in Europe or the USA.

If you complete six modules, you’ll have a direct pathway to earning your Master’s Degree without additional coursework. Alternatively, if you choose five modules, you’ll only need to complete a Graduation Project to achieve your degree.

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The Special Executive Masters Programme (SEMP) in Business Administration offers an intensive, practical curriculum to enhance leadership and strategic management skills for professionals aiming to advance their careers.

The Programme offers an efficient approach beyond traditional classroom learning. The course emphasises real-world applications through case studies, business simulations, and 100% project-based learning, allowing participants to practice what they learn in a controlled environment before applying it to their roles.

The Special Executive Master Programme in Business Administration allows you to achieve the qualification in 6 months. It is a fast track to new opportunities and enhanced career prospects.

The program effectively prepares learners to tackle complex operational challenges by integrating theoretical knowledge with practical applications.

The aim of the Special Executive Masters Programme (SEMP) in Business Administration is to equip professionals with advanced knowledge and skills in leadership, strategic management, and business operations. The program focuses on practical applications to drive organizational success and personal career advancement. It also fosters critical thinking and innovative problem-solving abilities in a global business context.

Course Details:

Leadership and Organizational Behaviour: Explore theories and practices to cultivate effective leadership strategies and understand the dynamics of organizational behaviour.

International Business Management: Gain insights into the complexities of global markets, cultural nuances, and international trade strategies for successful business expansion.

Strategic Financial Management: Develop proficiency in financial analysis, risk management, and strategic decision-making to drive sustainable business growth and maximize shareholder value.

Business Research Methods: Understand the research techniques and methodologies essential for evidence-based decision-making and business innovation.

Strategic Human Resource Management: Learn to align human capital strategies with organizational goals, fostering employee engagement, talent development, and organizational effectiveness.

Strategic Marketing: Learn to use market analysis, branding, and marketing strategies to create competitive advantage and drive business growth in dynamic market environments.

Assessment: Graduation Project (GP)

Upon finishing the coursework, students must complete a graduation project(GP) that combines and utilises the knowledge acquired across different modules. This qualification embodies current practices in business administration and helps learners deepen and broaden their understanding of the field at an advanced level.

Programme Structure and Credits:

This programme comprises 6 modules with 30 ECTS and 1 GP of 30 ECTS.

This module provides the most critical information about the study course and assignment submission.

  • Navigating the MSBM Study Portal

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  • Course Structure and Guidelines

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  • Interacting with Lectures/Learning Components

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  • Harvard Referencing Style Guide

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  • How to Summarise - Assignment Guide

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  • Summarising, Paraphrasing, Quotation for your Assignment

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  • Official Title Pages - SEMP

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The Leadership and Organizational Behavior module is designed to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of leadership and the principles of organizational behaviour. This module will explore the various leadership styles, traits, and behaviours that are necessary for effective leadership in modern organizations.
Students will learn how to analyze and evaluate organizational structures and culture and the impact of these factors on employee motivation, job satisfaction, and performance. They will also examine team building dynamics and the importance of communication, conflict resolution, and decision-making in achieving organizational objectives.

  • A Review of Organizational Theories

     

  • Leadership and Organizational Behaviour

    Self-paced pre-recorded learning content on this topic.

  • Organizational Change, Behaviour & Culture

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  • Organization System Thinking and Structure

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  • QUIZ - LEADERSHIP AND ORGANIZATION BEHAVIOUR

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This course aims to introduce learners to current debates, theories, and practices in the field of International Business.

  • International Business Environment

     

  • Managing International Trade

     

  • Strategic Approach To International Business

     

  • International Business Operations

     

  • Organisational Structures In International Business

     

  • QUIZ-International Business Management

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On completion of this unit, learners will have gained knowledge and understanding relating to planning the usage and management of a business organization’s financial resources.  Learners will understand the importance of attaining business objectives and maximizing shareholder return. Learners will gain a working knowledge of business strategy design and the production of comprehensive business plans.

  • Understanding cost system and its classification

    Self-paced pre-recorded learning content on this topic.

  • Concepts and Tools of Cost Accounting

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  • CASE STUDY - Activity based costing in Xu Ji Electric Co. Ltd

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  • Understanding the Concept and Classification of Sources of Funds

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  • CASE STUDY - Global Fund Raising Strategies

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  • Understanding The Financial Performance Analysis

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  • CASE STUDY - Financial Analysis Reporting

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  • Understanding the Financial Ratios and its Various Types

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  • Understanding The Budgetary Concepts and Approaches

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  • CASE STUDY - How Maritz Accomplished a 40% IT Budget Reduction

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  • Understanding the Working Capital Management

    This lecture explore the cycle to convert your capital and generate profits. 

  • Understanding the Investment Appraisal Techniques

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  • QUIZ - Strategic Financial Management

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To provide learners with the competence to proffer solutions to problems arising in relation to leadership, management, and development of human resources within the organizational contexts. Learners will be enabled to appraise the effectiveness of organizational strategies, processes, and practices in efficient and effective leadership and management, also the contribution of HRM/HRD practitioners to organizational change.

  • Research Philosophies and Principles

     

  • VIDEO - Overview of the Research Onion

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  • Selecting a Research Topic

     

  • Searching and Reviewing Literature

     

  • VIDEO - How to write a Literature Review

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  • Developing conceptual Framework

     

  • PDF - How to create a Conceptual Framework

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  • Research Strategy and Design

     

  • Research Methods I

    Self-paced pre-recorded learning content on this topic.

  • Research Methods II

    Self-paced pre-recorded learning content on this topic.

  • PDF - How Observation is Used As a Research Method

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  • Research Methods: Data Analysis

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  • Research Proposal and Writing Up

     

  • Research Ethics

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  • QUIZ - Advanced Business Research Methods

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This unit aims to develop learners’ understanding of how the effective strategic management of human resources supports achieving organizational objectives in different contexts. Learners will evaluate the contribution of strategic human resource management and the application of leadership and management theory for organizational benefit.

  • VIDEO - Human Resource Management Today - An Overview

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  • Understanding the role of human resource management

    Self-paced pre-recorded learning content on this topic.

  • Role of Human Resource Management Strategy in an Organisation

    Self-paced pre-recorded learning content on this topic.

  • Contributions of HRM

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  • Business Dynamics Concerning The Human Resource Strategy

    Self-paced pre-recorded learning content on this topic.

  • Case Study - Real-time, authentic employee voice feedback

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  • Determining Human Resource Requirements

    Self-paced pre-recorded learning content on this topic.

  • Fundamentals Of Human Resource Plan

    Self-paced pre-recorded learning content on this topic.

  • Legal And Ethical Requirements Of Human Resource Policies

    Self-paced pre-recorded learning content on this topic.

  • Human Resource Management And Organisational Strategy, Structure And Culture

    Self-paced pre-recorded learning content on this topic.

  • Effective Monitoring Of Human Resource Management Activities

       

  • People Development and Human Resource Management

    Self-paced pre-recorded learning content on this topic.

  • Case Study - Answering the Phone (Training and Development)

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  • Developing Human Resource Management, Recruitment and Selection

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  • Case Study: Solution for Recruiting Hard-to-Fill Positions

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  • Employee Retention Concepts, Tools and Strategies

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  • Organisational Theory Underpinning Human Resource Management

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  • Leadership Practices In An Organisational Context

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  • Strategic Leadership And Organisational Development

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  • Exploring Purpose Of Leadership And Evaluating Human Resource Strategy

    Self-paced pre-recorded learning content on this topic.

  • QUIZ - Strategic Human Resource Management

    Put your knowledge to the test with this quiz. Read each question carefully and choose the response that you feel is correct.

The aim of this unit is to develop learners’ understanding of the concepts, methods and technical aspects of strategic marketing and the challenges associated with marketing in today’s business environment, including how a strategy combines product development, promotion, distribution, pricing, relationship management, and other elements.

  • Fundamental Concepts in Marketing

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  • Understanding The Marketing Mix

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  • Understanding the Extended Marketing Mix

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  • Understanding External and Internal Environment for designing a market plan

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  • CASE STUDY - How Starbucks is using pricing strategy for profit maximization

    Downloadable material to advance your understanding of this module.

  • Marketing planning and strategy

    Self-paced pre-recorded learning content on this topic.

  • Strategising for Marketing Operations

    Self-paced pre-recorded learning content on this topic.

  • Marketing Function Interrelationships and Entrepreneurial Marketing

    Self-paced pre-recorded learning content on this topic.

  • The Strategic Marketing Process

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  • CASE STUDY - MasterCard Global Targeted Content Marketing

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  • Strategic Positioning In the Business Environment

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  • Segmenting And Targeting Strategies

    Self-paced pre-recorded learning content on this topic.

  • Fundamentals of Branding

    Self-paced pre-recorded learning content on this topic.

  • CASE STUDY - Starbucks's Misunderstandings In Australia

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  • Branding Decisions and Strategies

    Self-paced pre-recorded learning content on this topic.

  • RESEARCH - Market entry strategies of passenger carmakers

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  • Understanding Brand Identity Personality And Positioning

    Self-paced pre-recorded learning content on this topic.

  • Concepts in Digital Branding

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  • QUIZ - Strategic Marketing

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All MSBM courses are accredited by the relevant partners and awarding bodies.  Please refer to MSBM accreditation in about us for more details.

There are no strict entry requirements for this course. Work experience will be added advantage to understanding the content of the course.

This is a self-study programme with unlimited tutor support. You will never be more than a message or phone call away from our tutors.

Workshops are conducted by live webinars for online students.

Classroom workshops are available if there is a local branch in your country. Speak to our course advisors on this subject.

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