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PGDip
Business Administration (Executive) Senior Leader Apprenticeship
The Leeds Business School PG Diploma in Business Administration (Executive) is a post-experience postgraduate course that aims to give mature apprentices a broad-based business and management curriculum, to enhance their credentials on the senior management route.
Course Overview
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Part Time -
2 years -
City Campus -
Fees for the course will be a maximum of £14,000 over two years.
The Leeds Business School PG Diploma in Business Administration (Executive) is aimed at prospective apprentices with more than five years’ managerial experience, who would like to add to their existing functional skill set, by studying issues which impact upon a senior manager’s professional role.
The PG Diploma will prepare apprentices for the transition to senior management and director level by teaching concepts useful for such roles in an organisation. This will be achieved through the use of various scenarios from the subject areas of strategy, governance, leadership, communications, human resources, enterprise and finance. It is aimed at business apprentices who are working in organisations in England and will be able to meet the standards set for Level 7 Senior Leader Apprenticeships, by applying knowledge gained on the course to develop skills by evaluating business systems and identify potential solutions.
What modules can I study?
The apprenticeship comprises on-the-job practical training with academic learning delivered through a number of modules:
This module allows apprentices to analyse the role of leadership when organisations are facing contemporary issues surrounding increasing complexity, ethical awareness, organisational resilience, the role and impact of key stakeholders and the social responsibility of organisations. It assists the evaluation of leadership approaches to challenges that managers are faced by in complex and dynamic environments combining multiple perspectives of leadership, followership, communication, and motivation.
This module enables apprentices to understand the current central issues in corporate governance facing directors and senior executive managers, and the roles of the board and directors in ensuring an effective, ethical, and good governance practice.
This module allows apprentices to employ knowledge gained through their leadership experience in the context of a strategic perspective of business management. It assists the evaluation of decisions that managers are faced with in complex and dynamic environments combining multiple perspectives of business and management.
Apprentices in this module will learn about issues management as a process of facilitating communication leadership in organisations in order to mitigate threats to the organisations. Likewise, they will develop knowledge matching management and communication strategies to different situations, crises, and stakeholders.
This module will review the concepts and theories underpinning organisational development as a means to critically analyse how they enable organisations to meet their aims and objectives. It will critically evaluate the people development agenda, including employee engagement, talent management, succession planning, workforce design, and coaching and mentoring arrangements for people within their area of responsibility.
This module teaches apprentices to develop knowledge of innovation and entrepreneurship to identify new customer trends and design an entrepreneurial proposal that will enable their organisation to embrace new opportunities profitably. It assists the apprentices in evaluation of resources required to support innovation, learn trends from big data, identify new sources of funding, be values driven and satisfy legal responsibilities of managers.
The aim of this module is to develop key decision-making skills regarding organisational resource requirements (budgets, people, technology), based on strategic insight and reliable evidence, by applying accounting and financial techniques to assist in control and planning at management level.
Essential information
The course is scheduled to take place in 24 months, combining a blended learning approach of on-the-job training with integrated learning. This blended approach is designed to be adaptable and flexible with a combination of face-to-face university teaching, virtual interactive sessions, online independent research, and reflective practice.
By reflecting on the challenges and learning from experience of employment, leaders can identify how challenges can be addressed using contemporary theory. Furthermore, the course features leaders from a variety of different functional backgrounds and experiences to provide an opportunity for peer-level learning and collaboration to occur.
As a key feature of successful apprenticeships, tri-partite reviews will be scheduled on a regular basis between the apprentice, the employer representative and course team representative. These reviews will be structured and monitor the apprentice’s progress, identify additional support if necessary and ensure successful completion of the apprenticeship.
A UK Graduate 2:2 Degree in Business or similar areas.
5 years’ experience as a manager in an organisation evidenced through a CV and reference from senior personnel in the apprentices’ organisation.
Please note applicants will normally have attained English and Mathematics at level 2 (GCSE) or higher. Applicants who have not attained these will have the opportunity to complete the necessary qualifications alongside their apprenticeship as it will form part of the apprenticeship assessment requirements. Queries regarding arrangements for Maths and English can be directed to the Apprenticeships Team.
Evidence will also be required of the applicant’s eligibility to join an apprenticeship, in line with Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) requirements. This will be informed by the Initial Needs Assessment (INA) of the apprentice and review of their existing knowledge and skills set, to identify potential exemption from parts of the course through the Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) process – details on this will be included as part of the application and admissions process.
Please note applications are submitted through the relevant employer, not directly from applicants.
Before starting an apprenticeship, applicants will be required to sign a “Commitment Statement” which details key information regarding the apprenticeship such as learning requirements, responsibilities of the apprentice, employer and university, assessments, delivery schedule, etc, some of which are detailed below. Further information on this, and general apprentice admissions requirements, may be sought from the Apprenticeships Team:
Email: apprenticeships@leedsbeckett.ac.uk
Tel: 0113 812 4500
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