Management Organization Master

1) Main Goals

•  Guiding the students throughout the full process conducting them to be “gentiles” in the domain of the managerial theory.

•  Guiding the students throughout the full process conducting them to be “gentiles” in the professional world, mastering the most advanced practical sides of the management.

•  The corporations do need high-quality managers to run their business, on the behalf of their shareholders. Such a high-quality requirement can be acquired through much of the curricula's components.

•  Many of the courses are lectured using some well-known packages and programs to help the understanding the link between the theory and practice of the management's facets.

It is noticeable that the whole courses encompassed in the curricula include practical cases and computer-based real-world applications. In addition, the courses can also be pursued through the most recent e-learning tools.

2) Job Opportunities

•  Teaching in private and public business colleges, engineering institutes, and faculties in Tunisia or in any other country around the world, since the postgraduate obtains at the same time a national and an international diploma.

•  Integrating the professional and leading the business activities of the future in private or public corporations, in Tunisia or in any other country around the world.

3) The Targeted Audience

The people who may get interested in the Master are those who already have a B.A. (finance economics, accounting, marketing, etc.) or an engineering diploma.

4) Enforcement of the Program

The whole program is made up of three semesters, as follows:

•  April's Session

From the beginning of October until March of the same academic year. The graduates can pursue the courses in their curricula over three days a week. In the main, these three days are the last days in the week.

•  June's Session

It starts from mid-April until the end of May. As in the first session, the courses take place three days a week.

•  Seminaries and Applied Research's Session

This session is devoted to the conduction of a research program. Indeed, every postgraduate student tackles a particular problem in finance, insurance, or risk management. Each student will certainly be supervised by a senior supervisor and many other teaching assistants.

Curriculum

Mandatory courses

Organizational Theory

This course develops issues that are closely related to the economics of organizations, their social aspects, alongside with the major managerial treatises that shaped the field over the last fifty-plus years. The main goal is to help the postgraduates to understand the theoretical grounding and link it with real-world facts.

Aspects of Modern Finance Theory

Although this course seems to not fit the Master's goals, the real fact is that it genuinely does. In fact, this course will be a useful starting-point to master the working of financial markets and the reverberations it may have on the firm's policy and strategies. Indeed, some aspects of modern finance theory will be linked to the corporate choices made by the management and their impacts on the firm's efficiency and survival.

Marketing Theory

The marketing theory is a cornerstone of the Master. Indeed, the most important facets of this course are the developments of the marketing theory over the last 50-plus years and the challenges it is confronting regarding the “birth” of a general marketing theory. Many theories and approaches will be developed throughout the course; particularly, the approaches of S.D. Hunt (Michigan University).

Microeconomic Theory

The foundational microeconomic theories are dealt with, and thus through the game theory in perfect and imperfect information. Additionally, the course will embed an introduction to experimental economics (Vernon Smith's approach) and its affect on the firm's level.

Research Methods in Management

This course starts with a broad approach enlightening the basic problems with respect to research problems in organizational and managerial theories. Afterwards, many research methods and techniques are expounded in order to elucidate the extent to which modeling and theoretical reasoning are practical. Strictly speaking, this course is an important part of the Master.

Qualitative Methods 1

Conducting the empirical side of a research plan requires some basics regarding the qualitative methods. Indeed, corroborating theoretical facts needs the application of qualitative econometrics methods. Undergraduate statistical and probability theory is supposed to be known.

Quantitative Research Methods 2

This course is a deepening of undergraduate econometrics. Standard econometric methods are studied, alongside with the most important techniques and methods, such as VAR, GMM, panel data,…

OPTIONAL COURSES ( Choosing 5 courses among the following list)

Organizational Finance

Performing an in-depth analysis of return, risk, and profitability using financial ratios. This course helps the postgraduate student to assess the firm's financial situation by focusing on its financial structure as well as on its profitability. It is a highly appreciated preparation for the job of a financial analyst, listing sponsor, among others.

Quantitative Finance

The issues discussed in this course are principally: the foundation of financial modeling, Basle II, the financial decision-making. Furthermore, many tools to tackle the finance-management interplay.

Accounting: Historical and Modern aspects

Accounting is studied through an evolutionary approach. Indeed, the course starts with the standard basics until it encompasses more sophisticated developments such as the IFRS norms, Basle II agreements, the fair-value concept, etc.

Management and Accounting

Computerized accounting systems are compared to the most traditional ones. The position of accounting systems (particularly the Tunisian system) relative to the international IAS standards. Further, some aspects of managerial accounting are dealt with on the theoretical side as well as on the empirical one.

Advanced Marketing

Market analysis in the light of the most recent developments of operational and strategic marketing. Extension of the traditional 4P's approach to include other deep components for the analysis of consumer behavior. The analysis is driven by the globalization of the competitiveness and the cross-countries cultures.

Strategic Management

This course centers on the corporate strategy and the multifarious theories lying behind it. The analysis is based on the differences and similarities between each school of thought dealing with corporate strategy.

The Theory-Practice Interplay

This course shows how the theory-practice interplay works. Indeed, it provides the tools to link theory to its practical counterparts through the utilization of a variety of packages such as excel, Reuters, Bloomberg, Condor. The goal is showing the similarities and discrepancies between the theoretical prediction and real-world facts.

English

The importance of this course is the same as the aforementioned ones. Indeed, it guides the students to master the technical terms and expressions used by financial analysts (and strategists) in marketplaces through the discussion of modern texts dealing with recent topics (in a journalistic manner).