MBA Alternative Dispute Resolution
The part-time MBA (Alternative Dispute Resolution) is designed to prepare full-time professionals to become successful senior managers. The Hume Institute for Postgraduate Studies in Switzerland leads the delivery of this innovative programme in a unique collaboration with the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) and the University of Bolton. The course is taught online but provides a rare opportunity to benefit from a residential visit to Geneva, Switzerland. This exciting trip includes a visit to the United Nations and other international organisations such as the World Trade Organisation, and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.
Award
MBA
Mode of Study
Part Time
Duration
2 years
Location
Online (with an in-person Swiss residential experience)*
Start Date
September 2024
Course Overview
Whatever area of business and management you currently work in, this enriching part-time MBA (Alternative Dispute Resolution) programme will help you understand the challenges and opportunities facing organisations, and support you in developing realistic and well-thought-out strategies and solutions to capitalise on these. Your specialist knowledge and understanding of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) will be developed throughout the course, woven into the business disciplines that traditionally form the core of an MBA and which make it such an iconic and highly valued qualification.
Our dedicated team will also support you in developing your specialism to greater depth through two dedicated ADR modules. The programme seeks to develop and enhance management competencies in order for you to excel in new areas of potential responsibility. The syllabus incorporates the development of essential business, management, and life skills, including communication, leadership, advanced analysis, creativity, and problem-solving techniques. Contemporary issues, strategies, and practices are explored within each core and optional business-specialism module using live case studies and guest speakers from industry, benefiting from the latest research study evidence as identified from relevant management journals. Our meticulous planning for this MBA ensures a scaffolded learning approach, with earlier modules serving as a foundation for later ones and the contents of each module complementing each other throughout the academic year. Within some modules, you’ll have the opportunity to choose the specific topic for your assessment. The professional project is completely tailored to your experience and specialisation, in agreement with your supervisor.
The principal aims of the programme are to:
· Develop a critical understanding of business organisations, their management and the complex issues they face
· Develop a strategic understanding of risk, mitigation and dispute resolution in a worldwide context
· Develop the ability to appraise and evaluate applicability of arbitration and mediation approaches to alternative dispute resolution in a range of commercial and investment settings
· Develop key intellectual capabilities of research, critique, synthesis, innovation and creative thinking, culminating in a professional project
· Prepare students for progression into a career at senior management level. Students will develop knowledge and skills in strategic thinking and effective leadership appropriate to the contemporary global economy
· Develop systematic knowledge and a thorough understanding of how complex contemporary, global business issues, both systematically and creatively, to improve business and management practice
· Develop academic and professional skills, and a commitment to lifelong learning and personal development to foster personal growth and contribution society at large
· Delivered online and with an in person Swiss residential experience where you will observe and engage with agencies of the United Nations
· Develop a critical understanding of business organisations, their management and the complex issues they face
· Develop a strategic understanding of risk, mitigation and dispute resolution in a worldwide context
· Develop the ability to appraise and evaluate applicability of arbitration and mediation approaches to alternative dispute resolution in a range of commercial and investment settings
· Develop key intellectual capabilities of research, critique, synthesis, innovation and creative thinking, culminating in a professional project
· Prepare students for progression into a career at senior management level. Students will develop knowledge and skills in strategic thinking and effective leadership appropriate to the contemporary global economy
· Develop systematic knowledge and a thorough understanding of how complex contemporary, global business issues, both systematically and creatively, to improve business and management practice
· Develop academic and professional skills, and a commitment to lifelong learning and personal development to foster personal growth and contribution society at large
The course aims to combine the general business disciplines within and MBA with a specialism in Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR). ADR provides ways of settling complaints out of court with the assistance of an impartial dispute resolution body, including mediation and arbitration, and is increasingly used in commercial disputes.
The programme is delivered online, part time over two years and typically, you will study:
· Academic Skills and Professional Practice
· The Resolution of International Disputes through International Arbitration: Theory and Practice
· Alternative Dispute Resolution: Mediation and Negotiation
· Leadership and Management
· Marketing and Operations Strategy
· Financial Management and Decision-Making
· Professional Project
One specialist module is delivered in person during the Swiss Residential Experience, during which you will spend a week in Geneva developing your practical experience of dispute resolution through role plays and other in person activities. You will also observe and engage with agencies of the United Nations
You are normally expected to have successfully completed an honours degree (or equivalent) in a relevant subject and have appropriate work experience.
For applicants who have not studied their previous qualifications in English an academic IELTS score of at least 6.5 or a TOEFL score of at least 575 (written)/230 (computer-based) will be required.
We welcome applications for this programme via our online application portal which can be accessed using the link below.
Each link denotes the start date of the cohort, if your preferred start date is not listed, then please contact us and we will try to accommodate you.
MBA Alternative Dispute Resolution (online) January 2025 Intake
Please note the application deadline for the January 2025 intake is the 20th January 2025.
