• Your effectiveness as a manager is improved
• You obtain a recognised management qualification as evidence of your managerial competence
• You learn how to takle areas of management outside of your specialised field
• You broaden your view of your organisation's business as a whole
• Your confidence is increased when dealing with new challenges
• You are marked out as career-minded individual who is willing to study to succeed
• Your promoyion prospects are enhanced and career dislocation is minimised

Benefits for your employer

• You apply your developing skills immediately in your work
• Your expertise makes batter use of existing resources and so increase efficiency and productivity
• You have increased interest and motivation in your work
• You expand your organisation's pool of trained managers, so promotion can come from within

The Open Learning Management Training Programme

The Oxford Brookes MBA gives you the freedom to study without the disruption of taking time off work or having to spend long periods away from home. The programme is both flexible and supportive.

A key benefit of the programme is that it will give you the opportunity to communicate with other managers working in a broad spectrum of industrial, commercial, public and voluntary services.

The Programme is based around four key themes

• Understanding complex and dynamic environments
• Developing personal and managerial effectiveness
• Managing and developing organisations and resources
• Advancing your managerial specialisation