Programme Description

The MSc in Management Practice is a two year degree course designed specifically for chief executives and senior managers, run jointly by the Irish management Institute and the School of Business, Trinity College.

It is designed exclusively for experienced senior managers who:

• Need to develop their understanding of the complex management issues facing themselves and their organisation
• Find it impossible, because of their senior status in their organisation, to go on either a full-time master's programme or a part-time programme which is not directly related to their own organisation and role
• Have not only innate intellectual ability, but also the seniority and experience to implement real changes in their organisations
• Are seeking a qualification at post-graduate level in management

The typical participant will have had general management experience at CEO level or will be at the top of a major corporate function within the organisation such as financial
controller, production director, marketing manager. They will come from large and small indigenous companies, multinational subsidiaries, as well as the state, semi-state and banking sectors.

The average age of participants on the programme is around forty, with a range from 35 to 45. It is only in exceptional circumstances that participants who are not in their early thirties at least will have had the breadth of experience required or the authority to implement the change which is an integral part of the programme.

Recognising that people learn most effectively from the solution of real life problems, the emphasis throughout is on the application of what is being learned to the individual´s organisation and job. In order to do this a high emphasis is placed on one-to-one personal tutoring and consequently the number which can be taken on the programme in any one year is limited.

The action learning principles upon which the programme is based have been
incorporated in many new programmes in Europe and North America.

This programme, which was first in the field, has thus become a model.