Organisations Development Management
38.04.01 In russian
Level of education Master
Type of instruction Full-time
Duration 2 years
Programme description
- The master’s programme ‘Organizations Development Management’ is designed to train a new type of managers who combine the competences of economists, managers and entrepreneurs. The programme is aimed at: providing students with fundamental knowledge of the lean management of organisations; and developing in students strategic thinking and managerial competencies that ensure increased competitiveness, sustainable development, and successful personal business careers. Graduates of the programme also have competencies and skills in making professional presentations, leading discussions and organising teamwork.
- The academic programme has been designed taking into account professional standards and the views of employers on the compliance of graduates' competencies and job functions in their professional activities.
- The programme is designed to train a new generation of managers, economists-managers and entrepreneurs. It combines a classical university education with cutting-edge methods of training. Graduates of the programme will be capable of working in the areas of development management of organisations of all types of ownership and levels of management. They have fundamental managerial and economic knowledge, professional skills and creative thinking. They are also able to effectively manage strategic development processes within organisations, ensuring increased competitiveness and corporate responsibility, strategically sustainable development in a dynamically changing environment and digital economy.
Main courses
- E-Government
- Contemporary Management
- Strategic Management: Advanced Level
- Managerial Decisions: Advanced Level
- Theory of Organisation
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- Information Resources in Economic and Management Research
- Project Management. Advanced Level
- Financial Reporting Analysis
- Management of Non-Profit Organisations
- Stakeholder Management
- Nonfinancial Reporting
Our advantages
- Graduates of the programme acquire knowledge and competencies needed to be employed as managers in Russia and abroad in such innovative areas as: management of strategic development of organisations; organisational change management; management consultancy; human resource management; and corporate social responsibility
- Particular attention is paid to: the strategic aspect of management; development of professional competencies in managers; and effective strategic decision-making ensuring long-term competitiveness of the business
- We use the extensive practical experience of our teaching staff and their participation in management consultancy and research on the strategic development of organisations, industries and regions
- In-depth training is organised in the field of research on organisational development management within the framework of research seminars. Students take part in the implementation of important research projects in compliance with the research university model
- Students develop professional managerial and entrepreneurial qualities based on a combination of classical fundamental knowledge and business creation/development projects within the framework of the entrepreneurial university model
- Students develop leadership qualities required for senior and middle managers based on fundamental university education using the new technologies of active learning: computerised business training in modern management and strategic management, professional business games, and case studies
International relations
Students have an opportunity to take part in academic mobility programmes in accordance with their research interests within the framework of St Petersburg University agreements with the world's leading research centres. Cooperation agreements on academic mobility programmes between St Petersburg University and foreign partner universities are available via the link.
Main areas of research
- Strategic management of the company's competitiveness growth
- Development of innovative strategic management processes
- Designing business strategies for organisations development
- Strategic management of the human capital development in organisations
- Social partnership in making socially beneficial managerial decisions
- Intellectual capital of the organisation
- Applying scientific approaches of business administration to management decision making
- Formation and development of a quality management system
- Conflict management in the context of strategic organisational changes
- Developing methods and principles of management consulting
- Developing a human resource management strategy within the organisation
- Developing a digitalisation strategy for the functioning of the company
- Building an environmental management system within the organisation
- Development management of small innovative start-ups
- Improving company management in a crisis
- Improving the efficiency of business processes within the organisation
- Developing a strategic marketing system for the organisation
- Managing core competencies of the organisation
- Development management of relations with the parties concerned
- Developing a strategy for corporate citizenship of the company
Career opportunities
- The programme is designed to train experts with fundamental managerial and economic knowledge, professional skills and creative thinking. They will be capable of managing efficiently: strategic processes; and the growth of competitiveness and sustainability of economic development in a dynamically changing environment and the digital economy
Professions
- Managing directors of profit and non-profit organisations: managerial activities in the areas of management and strategic management, planning and forecasting the development of organisations and their divisions
- Management and key personnel of various departments of organisations that ensure the strategic development of organisations: development of social and economic strategies; design and economic activities in the areas of development management of organisations of all types; and planning and development of new management standards and regulations
- Specialists of organisations that deal with management consulting: analytical activities in the sphere of development management of organisations of all profiles and types of activities
- Management and key personnel of departments in the field of corporate social activities
- Academic and teaching staff in higher education and in the systems of training and retraining managers and specialists in business management, development management of companies, and growth of their competitiveness, sustainability and efficiency
Practices
- Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation
- Committee for Investments and Strategic Projects of St Petersburg
- Committee for Finance of St Petersburg
- Committee for Labour and Employment of St Petersburg
- Office of the Federal Treasury in St Petersburg
- Office of the Federal Tax Service of Russia in St Petersburg
- St Petersburg Chamber of Commerce and Industry
- Ernst & Young (CIS) B.V. branch in St Petersburg
- VTB 24 Bank
- Sberbank
- Promsvyazbank
- United Power Company
- Baltika Brewery
- St Petersburg Тechnopark ('Ingria' Business Incubator)
- Gazprom Neft
- Gazprom Export
- State Unitary Enterprise 'Vodokanal of St Petersburg', Information and Training Centre
- Rosgosstrakh Insurance Company
- Renaissance Insurance Group
- STC-Innovations
- Heineken Breweries
- Ambassadors
- Fazer
- Center for Strategic Research 'North-West' Foundation
- Maxidom
- Siemens Gas Turbine Technologies
- Coca-Cola HBC Eurasia
- ILIM Group
- Amcor Tobacco Packaging in St Petersburg
- Belmond Grand Hotel Europe
- Hotel Astoria
- Nissan Manufacturing RUS