Your management consultancy report gives you the opportunity to demonstrate your academic knowledge and skills within a research project of rigorous critical analysis upon a specific management topic in depth. You'll identify, design and produce a chosen project outline with explicit terms of reference, structure and action plan. It will develop your intellectual ability and employment potential through critical analysis and applied conceptual thinking by undertaking an in-depth investigation into a specific area of interest relevant to the programme of study and your own interests.
You'll engage with conceptual understandings and problem solving, vocational application and practice, demonstration of a comprehensive literature review, critical thinking and analysis, strategic development and management practice, as well as, self-reflection. Your project should be underpinned by a survey of relevant literature and include a planned element of primary and/or secondary research.
You'll learn to analyse data and apply both theoretical and practical arguments of appropriate critical depth and consistency for a Master's Management Consultancy Project. Your critical analysis will lead to conclusions that provide an appropriate response to the stated aims and objectives of the project – ideally with recommendations for future growth, research and development.
Private Study: 292
Contact Hours/Supervision: 8
Total: 300
Main assessment methods
Management Consultancy Report/Dissertation (8000-10000 words) (100%)
Reassessment method:
100% project
Recommended Textbook
Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (2008) CRD Guidance for undertaking reviews in health care (2018). University of York.
Additional Reading
Bryman, A. (2021). Social Research Methods. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
See the library reading list for this module (Medway)
The intended subject specific learning outcomes.
On successfully completing the module students will be able to:
- Demonstrate an advanced understanding of how to conduct qualitative and quantitative research in a business context.
- Produce a report in the required format that integrates and communicates knowledge and understanding gained from the MSc Management programme and internship.
- Critically apply appropriate consultancy/research principles and techniques for effective project management.
- Demonstrate a systematic understanding of research philosophies.
The intended generic learning outcomes.
On successfully completing the module students will be able to:
- Demonstrate competence in numeracy and qualitative management skills, including the use of models of business situations, qualitative and quantitative research skills.
- Identify, find, record, organise, interpret and communicate knowledge relevant to the development and management of organisations.
- Critically apply the underlying principles of social science research and research ethics.
- Demonstrate an ability to design and implement a social science research project.
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