Uganda Management Institute Masters of Institutional Management and Leadership

INTRODUCTION

In today’s changing landscape of service delivery, it is pertinent that managers at all levels become sophisticated to steer the Knowledge economy and face the internationalization challenges that are taking shape in the effective and efficient delivery of goods, services and works. Managers in public, private and the NGO world are both consumers and critical agents of the sophisticated knowledge of management and leadership from an institutional perspective. In line with the mission and strategic direction of Uganda Management institute, the Higher Degrees Department designed a unique Masters Degree in Institutional Management and Leadership, which blends theoretical and practical skills to produce a institutional leader or manager with capacity to steer his or her institution/organization in the rapdly changing organizational environment.

The Masters of Institutional Management and Leadership is designed to enable managers play a challenging role in managing key strategic resources and to tap necessary competences amidst a turbulent internal and external institutional set up where the common expectation is ‘to do more with less’. The programme not only addresses the primary challenges of day-today operational management and leadership issues but more importantly it aims at developing managers and leaders who can handle the tactical and strategic roles. The programme will help the participants to develop competencies in a number of specific areas that will enhance their ability to provide urgent solutions to their clients.

The core components of the course provides for not only the generic required competencies in management and leadership but also those of the modern era whilst the specializations and Dissertation component/term paper allows the candidates to demonstrate their ability to formulate and research issues and problems faced by their organizations. To achieve these goals but also to ensure quality of the teaching and learning outcomes, the programme will be taught by a combination of academics, senior public and private managers and leaders, accomplished with significant local and international exposure.

We strive to encourage and adopt collaborative mechanisms with reputable visiting academics and practitioners in the areas of management and leadership. The programme will expose participants with the theory and practice of effective management and leadership through comparing national, regional and international practices.

Course Aims and objectives:

The Masters in Institutional Management and Leadership is designed for anyone who aspires to have a leadership position in any kind of organization, including but not limited to service delivery sectors like education, health or who is interested in understanding more about management and leadership positions within these contexts.Theprogramme aims to develop the knowledge, skills, competencies and capabilities of its graduates to lead their organizations efficiently, effectively and successfully at a time of rapid change. The Master’s Programme is oriented to the needs of professionals and researchers and will be strongly supported by a broad range of experts in the field.

In specific terms, this programme pursues two broad aims:

(i)To enable aspiring leaders and managers to become more informed about critical issues in management and leadership, and thus to apply intellectual and practitioner oriented approaches to addressing these challenges during their work

(ii)To help them cope positively and effectively with the management and leadership challenges that emanate from the political, social, economical and technological environments.

The programme will impart a set of skills including Management Skills ,Leadership skills, change management skills, people management skills, Research Skills ,Curriculum Development Skills ,Psychology Skills ,Research Skills , Cultural Diversity Skills , Evaluation Skills , facilities management , financial management among others.

Rationale and Justification:

In the changing environment there is a general lack of specifically designed programmes to meet the

unique challenges of institutional leaders and managers with a true vision of service to propel their organizations A graduate level training programme aimed at producing such managers and leaders with the practical hands-on skills to effectively manage and lead institutions amidst the exiting challenges but with the capacity to work within the bureaucracies of the institutional systems cannot be over emphasized. A Masters in Institutional Management and Leadership will involve an analysis of different institutional systems in Uganda (and beyond) and will impart skills and competencies with an ability to manage a large number of people and the ability to navigate often cumbersome bureaucracies in effectively producing institutional outcomes. The Programme aims at producing problem solvers not leaders or managers who become ‘part of the problem’. The programme will have core and specialization modules offered within three Semesters and Dissertation/Term Seminar Paper in the third semester. The weekend programme will be conducted at UMI main campus on Saturdays and Sundays for a prescribed number of contact hours.

Target Categories:

Members of governing boards in government and private organisations CEOs in public and private organisations

Senior managers of educational, health and other institutions

Those aspiring to be experts in the science and practice of institutional management and leadership. Senior academics, principles, Teachers and trainers in government and private institutions Organisational Development analysts and Consultants

Heads of Departments

Programme structure:

The programme will include a set of 12 core compulsory modules to be completed by all participants and a set of elective modules (4-specializations) with the dissertation/Term paper written after completing both core and specializations. To receive an award of a Masters of institutional Management and Leadership, the student must have completed core and elective courses and presented and defended a dissertation of acceptable quality in accordance with the guidelines of Uganda Management institute.

Year 1 Semester One

MIML1: Institutional Management and Leadership: Theories and Models

MIML2: Public Financial Management

MIML3: Institutional Policy Planning, Design and Implementation

MIML4: Research Methods and Inquiry

MIML5: Human Resource Development and Management

MIML6: Strategic Leadership and Management

Year 1 Semester Two

MIML7: Ethics and Law in Leadership and Management

MIML8: Monitoring and Evaluation of Institutional Programmes

MIML9: Corporate Governance and Innovation

MIML10: Leadership and ICT

MIML11: Procurement and Facilities Management

MIML12: Organisational Development and Change

Year 2: Semester One (Specialisations)

MIML13: Staff Administration and Management

MIML14: Measurement and Evaluation: Theory and Models

MIML15: Independent Study

MIML16: Health Policy and Planning

MIML17: Transport Policy and Planning Management

MIML18: Occupational Health and Safety

MIML19: Guided Study

Write a dissertation/Scholarly Term Paper

TUITION FEES:	Ug.shs.4, 150,000 per year.
DURATION:	2 years

MODE OF STUDY: Weekends: (Saturday & Sunday) 8.30 a.m. – 4.00 p.m.

COURSE CODE: HDD: 601-4