PhD in Business Management
 

 Introduction

Doctor of Philosophy in Business Management represents the highest level achievement in the discipline of business. The purpose of the Doctor of Philosophy in Business Management programme is to prepare student for the highest level of leadership in business industry, to conduct and participate in research in the field of management and to teach business management courses in colleges and universities. Students who earn this degree qualified to enter academia or the top levels of business arena or the government service. These graduates will be able to demonstrate excellence in their pursuit of academic study in their selected field. As with any quality PhD degree, the work is changing but the rewards are substantial.

 Doctoral Programme Design
 

This doctoral programme consists of two parts: the pre-dissertation stage and dissertation stage. The objective of the pre-dissertation stage is to provide students with theoretical foundation and practices of the primary and supporting fields of research with a good command of relevant qualitative methods of research and analysis. The objective of dissertation stage is for the student to apply the theoretical and practical knowledge with analytical methods to the resolution of research programme

 Admission Requirements

Minimum educational requirements are a Master of Business Administration degree or equivalent from a state approval regionally or nationally accredited institution or equivalent.

 Study Plan - Pre-Dissertation Stage

The study plan is a description of how the student’s educational interest and objective be pursued during enrolment in the Doctorate programme.

  The students have to take the following classes :

• Management – Finance, Investment & Foreign Exchange

• Economics – Marketing Strategy

• Accounting for Managers – Human Resource Management

• Managing Change – Managing Product Development

• Competition and Markets

Each course takes 20 hours to cover and is conducted in seminar form. This plan is unique in placing so much emphasis on the student’s educational achievement in relation to longer-range personal and career goals. It tailors the doctoral student’s interests as well as faculty requirements. Students are urged to be in-depth and innovative in their study and to confine planned activities to the independent research, publication, consulting, travel and teaching which if properly developed and presented, may be approved by the Committee on Doctoral Studies.

Course Structure of Doctorate programme ( 60 chrs ) :

Doctoral Orientation ( 2 chrs )

ORN 600 Doctoral Orientation

2 chrs

Research Methodology ( 18 chrs )

RSE 602 Introduction to Research & Data Analysis
RSE 604 Research Methods & Design
RSE 606 Quantitative Research & Analysis
RSE 608 Explorations in Business Research
 

Core Courses ( 20 chrs )
(A maximum of 10 chrs can be exempted from those who have completed the pre-Dissertation Stage)

MGT 612 Business Policy & Practice
MGT 614 Advanced Corporate Leadership
MGT 616 Strategic Organizational Development
MGT 618 Contemporary Marketing Management
 

Doctoral Dissertation ( 20 chrs )

DDS 700 Doctoral Dissertation

 The Doctorate Dissertation Stage

The objective of the dissertation stage is to demonstrate that the student has synthesized the knowledge gained during the pre-dissertation stage and is able to apply this knowledge to the resolution of a substantial problem.

  The dissertation stage consists of five major activities :

• 2 doctoral concentration seminars / papers

• 3 dissertation seminars

• Development and defense of proposal

• Research execution

• The final dissertation approval

Candidate is required to attend a final oral examination on the dissertation. This consists of external examiners, who are experts in the field as well as senior academics.