The programme aims to:

• Attract high calibre students irrespective of race, background, gender or physical disability, from the UK, Poland and other European countries
• Provide you with the necessary knowledge to enable you to enhance your managerial abilities;
• Provide transferable skills that will support your career development;
• Stress the integrating role of the manager in a complex and dynamic environment;
• Prepare you for postgraduate study and lifelong learning.

The MBA programme is built around a series of modules that reflect the important issues, tensions and operational realities that constitute contemporary business life. The content draws on a wide range of respected academic research which is the theoretical foundation for developing a learning experience incorporating the wide experience of our lecturing staff, visiting speakers and professorial contribution. In addition, we draw upon the valuable experience of the participating students to provide you with an integrated, soundly academic but practical management development programme.
Nottingham Business School's courses, and therefore those provided by Karol Adamiecki University of Economics, are highly respected attracting a high calibre of applicants from a wide range of well known businesses covering both the private and public sectors. Typical cohorts will include representation from small businesses through to companies with global reach and from both the ‘for profit' and ‘not for profit' sectors. You can expect to benefit from working with a network of widely experienced peers with an eclectic range of background and experience. The interactive nature of the course ensures that this mix adds a great deal of value to the input provided by university staff, making a contribution to your overall development.
To reflect the changing nature of global commerce and the effect on the typical business mix of even small organisations, the course has an international perspective embedded within each module.
From this course you can expect to develop a broad underpinning theoretical knowledge and understanding that will enhance your ability as a practising manager. A fundamental driver of our course design is the belief that theory underpins skill; thus supporting our objective of helping you to become a more effective manager. And so, you will find embedded in the modules that constitute the academic programme, a variety of opportunities to apply what you learn in a ‘protected environment'; you can learn from mistakes without the associated risks! Importantly, our confidence in the ability of our students is expressed through a module where you will join a small group of peers and carry out a real life consultancy project to help an operational business where typically you might address a business problem that the business doesn't have the resources to work through itself, or perhaps do some research to provide support for the growth aspirations of the business.Learning outcomes - graduate profile

Programme outcomes
Programme outcomes describe what you should know and be able to do by the end of your programme if you take advantage of the opportunities for learning that we provide.

Knowledge and understanding. By the end of the programme you should be able to:

• Demonstrate critical understanding of the theories and current issues of leadership through strategic management and the development of conceptual frameworks to guide application within organisations
• Demonstrate creativity in the application of knowledge
• Demonstrate and apply independent research and critical skills enabling the investigation and evaluation of valid and relevant strategic management issues
• Demonstrate initiative, insight, attitudes of responsibility, ethics and leadership in the development of the strategic management agenda
• indicates those outcomes having specific reference to the QAA Business & Management Benchmark statements

Skills, qualities and attributes. By the end of the programme you should be able to:

• Formulate and test hypotheses and integrate and evaluate data from a variety of sources
• Demonstrate a proficiency in the use of appropriate research methods including electronic resources and show the ability, from detailed, critical analysis, to draw conclusions
• Prepare professional standard written reports and be able to communicate key issues and argument through presentations
• Work effectively and collaboratively in teams and demonstrate a capacity for leadership
• Demonstrate creativity in the solution of problems and the development of useful proposals
• Demonstrate a range of transferable skills including written and oral communication, effective resource and time management and the ability to carry out financial analysis.
• Learn independently in familiar and unfamiliar situations with intellectual curiosity and open-mindedness and in the spirit of rational enquiry.
• Exhibit the qualities and transferable skills relating to communication, organisation, strategic management and working with others
• indicates those outcomes having specific reference to the QAA Business & Management Benchmark statements