Start Date

September and February

Format

Full-time or Part-time

Duration

1 or 2 years

Location

Qatar

Fees

Application Fee
QR 1,000/- (non-refundable)

Per Semester
QR 52,500/-

Yearly Fee
QR 105,000/-

Overview
   
Course Content
 
How you learn
 
How you are assessed
 
University
 
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Overview
   
Course Content
 
How you learn
 
How you are assessed
 
University
 
Entry Requirements
 
Apply

Overview

The MBA Global in Hospitality Management pathway is designed to match your existing experience, current role, and future plans. The foundation provides a thorough grounding in strategic leadership, financial performance management, global operations, markets and resources, business research methods and data analysis.

  • The MBA Global Hospitality Management pathway focuses on current industry trends, hospitality operations management, service quality, and customer experience management.

The highlights

  • A first-class educational experience where you will gain the strategic knowledge, vision, and confidence to innovate, challenge, and lead change
  • The MBA Global in Hospitality Management is designed to match your professional experience and ambitions
  • Flexible routes for you to achieve your qualification, with full-time and part-time delivery options
  • The MBA Global in Hospitality Management is accredited by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI), which means you can apply for Chartered Manager status on completion of your studies
  • Experiential education through real-world practical scenarios drawn from across the global hospitality business sector.
  • The opportunity to undertake a corporate placement project instead of a traditional dissertation
  • Accomplished faculty with extensive management and leadership experience with influential global networks to open doors for you
  • Mentoring and coaching support will enhance professional development and help build vital attributes for career success

Managers who can perform, think, and act from an international perspective are in high demand. The MBA Global in Hospitality Management has been designed specifically to meet that demand; nurturing leaders who are creative, dynamic, and innovative – ready to excel in senior positions worldwide.

The MBA Global programme will transform your business thinking as you work towards the world’s most recognised management and leadership qualification. Challenging both academically and practically, it will strengthen your professional profile so you can solve complex business problems and inspire change within the industry.

Course Content

To achieve the MBA Global in Hospitality Management you will need to complete 180 credits, concluding your studies with a dissertation worth 60 credits.

The intention of this module is to enable managers and future managers to appreciate, apply and mould the role of finance, operationally, tactically and strategically within an organisation. This module will provide the opportunity for you to critically analyse the financial data that information systems provide and process this data to convert it into information, applicable for strategic planning. The module will also allow you to explore the role of performance measurement systems within an organisation and how the accounting and finance function is used to design approaches which then enable the effective and timely management of performance.

The focus of this module is on the internal accounting and finance function and how this data is deployed to inform organisations in their planning processes and decision making. The module will include, from an external perspective, analysis and interpretation of key financial statements and corporate reports, consideration of shareholder wealth maximisation and value creation, and the measurement of performance within this context. Internally, the module will cover data generation and conversion into information for management use within planning, control, decision-making and performance management.

Module learning outcomes

On successful completion of the module, you will be able to:

  1. Critically analyse financial data and interpret information, evaluating timeliness, relevance and validity
  2. Critically evaluate the wider role of fundamental analysis within the context of corporate performance
  3. Critically evaluate using financial management practices to produce information appropriate for management to aid planning, control and decision-making at strategic, tactical and operational levels

Module content

  • The objectives of financial reporting
  • The main financial statements
  • The interpretation of financial statements
  • Fundamental analysis of corporate performance
  • Shareholder value creation
  • Capital investment appraisal
  • Internal costing structures – tools and techniques required for assisting management in controlling and decision-making
  • Absorption costing, marginal costing and activity-based costing
  • The purpose, structure and integration of budgets, from a planning and controlling perspective
  • Measurement of divisional performance
  • Key decision-making processes
  • Strategic management accounting

20 Credits

This module seeks to develop knowledge and understanding of the principal areas of strategic management and leadership practices emanating from business research and development. The module allows you to have a holistic view and understanding of how leaders and managers in an organisation manage the dynamics of strategies and policies formulation, implementation, and evaluation in order to respond to changes in both internal and external environmental dynamics and develop sustainable (competitive) advantage.

The aim of the module is to assist you in becoming an effective manager and leader in the workplace. For businesses to maintain a competitive advantage in the market, business leaders and managers have to manage contemporary challenges such as globalisation, innovation, technology and sustainability. Therefore, this module provides a broad representation of the diverse concepts and theories that reflect current debate among academics and practitioners alike. It explores how today’s leaders and managers utilise and manage competitive intelligence and knowledge in diverse cultural, industrial and organisational contexts in order to develop innovative strategies for sustainable competitive advantage.

The module will challenge you to reflect critically on theory and your own practice, as well as drawing experiences from global strategic leaders and managers. You will be encouraged to develop the skills to deal with the current challenges in organisations. Overall, you will develop a wider global and international perspective and increase your awareness of the different leadership and management approaches for successful strategy development and implementation in a variety of organisational, industrial and cultural contexts.

Module learning outcomes

On successful completion of the module, you will be able to:

  1. Critically evaluate the contemporary research and debates on the relationship between management and leadership practices and organisational outcomes
  2. Critically evaluate how the role and nature of the organisation affects the knowledge, skills and behaviour needed by leaders and managers
  3. Critically analyse the contemporary issues facing the successful formulation and implementation of organisational strategies

Module content

  • Exploration of contemporary strategic theories on leadership and management
  • Strategic management in context: its history, evolution and role in corporate development and the role of leaders and managers as innovative strategic thinkers
  • Strategic management in a changing environment; change and competitive advantage; managing strategic change and developing dynamic response in dynamic and volatile environments
  • Strategy development and implementation: approaches and challenges in various contexts
  • Leadership styles and organisational structures and cultures and how leaders and managers can develop in an organisation
  • Understanding motivation, team and group dynamics, personality, attitudes and behaviours, and the effects that these have on organisational and individual performance
  • Power, politics and conflict
  • Vision and the effective school thought
  • Developing a collaborative culture
  • Cross cultural leadership and management styles
  • Strategic thinking and management of corporate governance, social responsibility and ethical issues
  • Developing a collaborative culture
  • The ‘Social Enterprise’ and ‘Shared Values’ agendas
  • Globalisation and strategic management theories
  • Strategic competitive advantage through innovation
  • Leadership and the corporate level strategy and culture
  • Strategic knowledge management
  • Managing and leading strategic change
20 Credits

The purpose of this module is to introduce the holistic nature of operations, markets and resources. This will be done from a strategic perspective, allowing the long term vision of an organisation to be understood, implemented and realised. This can only be possible through the appreciation of effective business operations, clear understanding of market position and relations with the market, and clarity on resource availability.
The module will lead you through a critical evaluation of the variety of strategies available to an organisation, whether that be local, national or global, incremental or transformational, planned or emergent.

In determining any strategic intention, an organisation must have a clear understanding of the market within which is wishes to compete, so a full market analysis will need to be undertaken, coupled with complete awareness of resource availability. This will allow managers to identify the organisations capabilities, which in turn will act as the driver for implementing strategy.

The recognition and management of both internal and external relationships with the market will consequently move the organisation towards effective operations and performance. It is therefore necessary to understand how to manage the organisation’s impact on, and interplay with, the global marketplace.

Through these analyses, appropriate strategies may be identified to place organisations in a position of competitive advantage and strength in terms of market share.

Module learning outcomes

On successful completion of this module, you will be able to:

  1. Critically analyse the importance of effective sustainable business operations and the conditions necessary for effective and efficient work
  2. Critically evaluate organisational strategy and how this is developed in light of market and resource position
  3. Critically evaluate how customer value can be maximised through marketing activities to produce sustainable, strategic, competitive advantage
  4. Reflect on current trends and critical issues that are pertinent to the successful strategic alignment of sustainable value to markets and organisations

Module content

  • Business operations as a system
  • Sustainability through systems design – sourcing, distribution and managing the value-added activities and minimising wasteful activities
  • The integrative nature of strategic management
  • Synthesise contrasting perspectives founded in the tension between competitive positioning and the resource based view of the firm
  • The impact of the complex external environment – local, national and global, macro and micro – on organisational strategy, behaviour and management
  • The marketing orientation and centrality of the customer/consumer
  • Understanding the needs and values of customers
  • Marketing objectives, strategy, marketing sustainability and marketing tactics
  • Integration of organisational operations to achieve strategic aims
  • Creating and delivering customer value and innovation
  • Product and services designs, including the 7Ps
  • Marketing planning, actions, implementation, risk and controls
  • Critically compare the concepts of strategic management and strategic marketing
20 Credits

This module aims to equip you with the professional skills you will need as you develop your career and move into more senior leadership roles.

Through an experiential approach, you will develop critical skills in business including communication, self-management and self-direction. This module also provides an oversight and appreciation of the challenges of professional working. The module develops your academic study skills, your ability to critically review information and your referencing skills.

The development of a portfolio of academic and practical skills will underpin your study at postgraduate level, and support your journey through the programme and within your professional context.

Module learning outcomes

On successful completion of the module, you will be able to:

  1. Identify, search for and critically review relevant academic and business information following academic conventions
  2. Acknowledge supporting material and evidence in written work and present in an effective manner for a range of audiences
  3. Undertake critical self-reflection of business skills and develop strategies for improvement

Module content

  • Orientation and induction to university
  • Self-Management, time management, prioritising, meeting deadlines
  • Effective communication skills for different audiences
  • Presentation skills
  • Team working
  • Learning and reflection
  • Enterprise and initiative
  • Personal organisation and planning
  • Problem solving
  • Academic practice – critical, professional and academic writing skills, avoiding plagiarism, Harvard Referencing
  • Using appropriate information resources (databases, Library resources)
  • Information collection, analysis and interpretation
  • Word-processing, PowerPoint presentations, Excel spreadsheets, SPSS statistical processing
  • Digital literacy and data privacy

This 0-credit module has been designed explicitly for you to reflect on your current personal competencies. By studying this module, you will be directed to a range of resources to help you to develop in the future, with a view to pursuing your CMI Chartered Manager application.

0 Credits

In order to assess new business opportunities or potential future strategies managers need to be able to conduct business research in a systematic and objective manner. This module therefore prepares you to apply your dissertation/corporate placement project in an organisational or industry context, and for undertaking management interventions in the workplace. The module brings together your knowledge of your own area of professional practice and the skills to investigate issues of professional interest and concern in an area of research interests and workplace problems that you will need to report in a manner consistent with the masters level demands.

The module focuses on your progression as you develop into becoming an independent thinker, capable of articulating and synthesizing the data, information and knowledge gained from the programme. You will select a work problem or issue that is of professional and personal development interest to you or of benefit to an organisation. You will design a methodologically sound approach as to how you will collect data and critically analyse, evaluate and present the findings of your investigation.

Module learning outcomes

On successful completion of the module, you will be able to:

  1. Critically evaluate the various research approaches, methods and techniques for your chosen workplace problem/topic of further study/research
  2. Critically examine the contribution primary and secondary data sources can make to research studies in respect of sampling, analysis and data presentation techniques
  3. Propose and justify a research project in business management

Module content

Key areas of study may include:

  • Research approaches, philosophies and strategies
  • Justifying research questions including testing hypotheses where relevant
  • The collection of ethical primary data for a chosen research project
  • Primary data collection methods and tools
  • Basics of qualitative designs, including case study, phenomenology, narrative inquiry, grounded theory and ethnography
  • Basic quantitative designs including experimental and quasi-experimental, survey and causal-comparative
  • Secondary data collection sources and ethical review of secondary data from within your own organisation
  • Sampling techniques and analysis
  • Issues of validity and reliability
  • Bias, error and accuracy in the research process
  • Ethical issues in research approach and design and recognition of the University’s research ethics policy guidelines (University of Derby Code of Practice on Research Ethics)
  • Creation of research questions and objectives relevant to your research project
  • Content analysis and construction of a literature review
  • Debate of a research methodological strategy
  • Analysis of data collection methods in terms of processing and presenting
  • Drawing and then testing the findings emerging from business research
20 Credits

20 Credits

20 Credits

The aims of this module are to develop a deeper awareness of career management and to facilitate your’ professional development by analysing personality types, coaching styles and career behaviours. The module will enable you to explore your motivations, behaviours and leadership development and asks you explore what it means to be a professional through a systematic consideration of your role in particular workplace settings. A series of personal diagnostics will act as reference points for your development, along with personal tutoring, coaching and career development workshops. You will develop an understanding of your authentic leadership, refine your ability to connect with others and acquire a global mind-set enabling you to work in culturally diverse environments.

The module also develops an understanding, application and evaluation of practical tools to support coaching and mentoring processes, applicable to management issues such as managing team performance, supporting staff through change, innovative problem solving, building supportive relationships and mentoring the growth of talent. Through this journey you will create an individualised leadership and personal development plan and the skills required for ongoing self-reflection and appraisal of your capabilities to support your future career aspirations.

Module learning outcomes

On successful completion of the module, you will be able to:

  1. Critically reflect on your personal strengths and weaknesses and use a range of reference points to support your career development
  2. Demonstrate self-awareness in terms of personal motivation, supporting and restricting beliefs and attitude in proactively setting goals for your career and professional development
  3. Understand, apply and critically evaluate the underlying principles and approaches that have contributed to the growth of coaching and mentoring as development tools in the workplace

Module content

  • The changing economic, cultural, organisational and demographic context of careers
  • understanding personality and personal style at work
  • Leading self and others
  • Authentic leadership
  • Cross cultural awareness
  • Mindfulness and resilience
  • Emotional Intelligence
  • Definitions of coaching and mentoring
  • Coaching skills, trust and rapport, listening and challenge, question technique
  • Coaching process models; GROW, OSCAR and SCORE
  • Giving and soliciting feedback, Johari window
  • Self-assessment/evaluation tools e.g. skills audits/personal SWOT analysis, personality testing, psychometric tests
  • Ethical standards in professional recognition – their value and implication for career progression
  • Becoming a Chartered Manager (CMI)

This 0-credit module has been designed explicitly for you to reflect on your current personal competencies. By studying this module, you will be directed to a range of resources to help you to develop in the future, with a view to pursuing your CMI Chartered Manager application.

0 Credits

A dissertation is a major piece of independently researched work, providing an opportunity to carry out an in-depth investigation of a management problem or issue. This will normally have a strategic dimension which addresses organisational issues and provides a process for solving research related problems. Based on an identified problem, learners find answers to research objectives by critiquing literature, analysing methodologies, synthesising primary and/or data, and analysing results, taking a critical perspective of their role in the research. If the collection of primary data is prohibitive, at the discretion of the programme leader, desk research may be allowed to be undertaken.

The module builds on the knowledge and skills within the Business Research Methods and Data Analysis module, in shaping students into becoming independent thinkers. The module provides an opportunity for students interested in specialising in any business related area to explore an in-depth topic relevant to their own context. It also provides the opportunity for you to reflect on the research experience and use what you have learned to guide your future development via a reflective statement and development plan.

Module learning outcomes

On successful completion of the module, you will be able to:

  1. Critically evaluate, with appropriate academic rigour, a business or management research problem or issue
  2. Conduct a research methodology that investigates a business problem or issue, reviews pertinent literature, analyses primary and/or secondary data to an appropriate depth and demonstrates strategic awareness within a chosen business related discipline
  3. Reflect on the process of undertaking a significant piece of independent research

Module content

The dissertation represents a major learning experience for students, providing an opportunity to pursue in considerable depth and with suitable academic rigour a specific area of management and/or strategy, building on the study of relevant concepts, models and paradigms. Each research project will be supervised by a specialised research supervisor. At the beginning, and as part of this module, a dissertation topic and research objectives will be individually negotiated and agreed. This initial collaboration with the supervisor will demonstrate that the proposed research and objectives can be achieved. Students will also have to complete an ethical approval form that meets the University of Derby’s ethics guidelines. The final work will comprise a dissertation or action-based study, a reflective statement and development plan. This whole process will normally be independently assessed by two tutors, one of whom will be the Dissertation Supervisor.

60 Credits

How you learn

We deliver a dynamic study experience, taking you beyond the classroom to apply learning to real-world business challenges, including the delivery of practical solutions. You will be inspired by a mix of:

  • face-to-face and virtual lectures
  • case studies
  • role play
  • debates
  • online discussions
  • presentations
  • enquiry-based learning
  • problem-solving activities
  • industry seminars and conferences
  • guest speakers
  • visits to various business organisations

In our engaging learning environment, you will receive individual support from faculty. We provide you with key reading and research resources, and you can make the most of the University’s online teaching portal.

How you are assessed

Our wide-ranging assessment methods are designed to enhance your transferable skills, personal, and professional development. They may include:

  • computer-aided tests
  • research projects
  • work-based reports
  • case study analysis
  • reflective reports

Our structured approach to formative assessment means that you will receive ample feedback on your progress throughout the MBA.

About Al Rayyan International University College (ARIU)

At ARIU, you’ll be welcomed into a warm, student-centred environment that blends personal support with global ambition. Located in Qatar and delivered in partnership with the University of Derby (UK), ARIU offers internationally recognised UK degrees in International Hospitality Management, International Tourism Management, and International Business Management.

You’ll benefit from small class sizes, hands-on learning, and a curriculum built around real-world business challenges, designed to help you stand out in the service and international business sectors. All degrees mirror the content and quality of University of Derby programmes delivered in the UK, giving you a globally respected qualification with strong local relevance.

Whether you’re aiming for leadership in global hospitality, launching a start-up, or entering international markets, ARIU provides the professional education and practical experience to equip you for success. With a strong alumni network across banking, finance, retail, tourism, and consulting, your future starts with a degree that opens doors worldwide.

Entry Requirements

a) An application file:
You must fill in and submit the application form together with a copy of your valid Qatar ID and passport and 4 passport sized photographs.

b) Original or an official copy of your Bachelor degree and transcript:
Applicants should normally hold a good honours degree (minimum upper second class or equivalent). Graduates of Qatar University or other universities in Qatar must submit an original or official copy of their bachelor’s degree and the transcript. Graduates of universities abroad must submit a fully legalised bachelor’s degree certificate and transcript together with an “Equivalence Certificate” from the Ministry of Education and Higher Education in Qatar. Please contact the university’s administration for more information.

c) English Language Requirements:
IELTS 6.5 (Overall Band Score) with 6.0 (or equivalent) each for the individual skills (Reading, Writing, Listening, Speaking).
Alternatively, we may be able to accept one of the following:

=> Successfully pass the ARIU English Language Test.
OR
=> English Waiver: you can submit an official letter from your previous university stating that your programme was fully taught in English as the primary medium of instruction.

d) Application for accreditation of prior learning (if applicable):
Applicants who have already had significant prior education at post graduate level may get accreditation of prior learning. Please contact the university’s administration for more information.

e) A personal statement:
You must submit a letter in English (minimum of 400 words) showing your motivation for the programme of choice. This letter should include your reasons for applying for the course, your work experience, how you feel you would benefit from studying this programme, relevant information about
your previous studies and your career ambitions. You can also include your non-academic experiences such as hobbies, interests, participation in any clubs, societies or voluntary work. For more information on the personal statement, please follow the link below:
https://www.derby.ac.uk/undergraduate/apply/personal-statement/

f) Curriculum vitae (CV):
You must submit a detailed CV showcasing your academic and professional achievements, past and current work experience etc.

g) Academic and professional references:
You must submit at least one academic and one professional reference letter to support your application for your post graduate studies.

h) Entrance Interview
After processing your written application and meeting the overall requirements you will be given a date for a university entrance interview. The result of this interview will determine if you will enter our postgraduate programme at ARIU with the University of Derby.

i) Non-Objection Letter from the Qatar National Service Academy:
Qatari male applicants must submit a non-objection letter from the Qatar National Service Academy addressed to ARIU to study in one of the postgraduate programmes at the university.

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