Gain the skills to be an effective manager within a sustainable-focused industry, or bring an increasingly important perspective to any business.
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Sustainability has been identified as a key future issue for businesses. This major has been designed to bring together learning around management skills and contemporary issues in sustainability.
Management involves both being able to work independently and make management decisions, but also being able to work with and direct teams of people. Those people could be within your organisation, or external clients and stakeholders. The Master of Management study programme works with you to help develop these skills as well as specialist business capability in your endorsement of choice.
It is a relevant, contemporary qualification, with a unique core of courses that focus on the key business skills of communication, understanding current issues in business and on the fundamentals of sustainability. This gives you a solid platform of knowledge to build on in your area of interest.
Areas of focus for this sustainability major include corporate social responsibility, ethics, the carbon-free economy and the UN Sustainable Development Goals and specific management applications such as the ethical behaviour of management within businesses and organisations.
Your study draws on published and consistently cited-research by discipline leaders, designed to give you the ability to understand the issues and, where necessary, drive change in your organisation.
The Master of Management (Sustainability) has been developed in consultation with major industry bodies, to ensure that the content and learning is consistent with issues and current gaps in business process and knowledge. The Master of Management works to help you understand the issues, and gain the right skills to bring a sustainability perspective to management positions, ultimately contributing to your employability.
The Massey Business School is one of the country’s leading and largest business schools and is AACSB accredited.
Massey University’s business and management studies rank in the top 250 (by QS (Quacquarelli Symonds) rankings).
We are ranked No.1 in New Zealand and in the top 150 universities worldwide for our business administration, communication and finance programmes by ShanghaiRanking.
You will learn from our business experts - Massey University has the largest and one of the most highly respected management schools in New Zealand.
The Master of Management is a rigorous programme, where students are expected to achieve at a high level. This is reflected in the quality of our graduates, and contributes to the reputation of the qualification. It is a professional qualification.
Note, if you wish to progress to a PhD upon completion, Massey’s Master of Business is a research-based degree that is a better pathway to a doctorate.
Postgraduate study is hard work but hugely rewarding and empowering. The workload of the Master of Management replicates the high-pressure environment of senior workplace roles. Our experts are there to guide but if you have come from undergraduate study, you will find that postgraduate study demands more in-depth and independent study.
Graduates from the Sustainability major of the Master of Management can look forward being employed in the broad field of sustainability management in the capacity of a manager in or consultant to business, central government, local government, NGOs etc. Representative entry/intermediate level position titles would be: Graduate Sustainability Analyst, Sustainability Advisor, Sustainability Programme Coordinator, Associate Sustainability Consultant, Environmental Advisor, Sustainability and Risk Management Advisor. These positions could be expected to offer career progression to senior positions as Sustainability / CSR Managers.
International trends are for employers to reward postgraduate study well, especially in larger enterprises. The skills you learn are increasingly recognised as setting you apart from other potential employees.
A 2017 Ministry of Education publication The post-study earnings and destinations of young domestic graduates, found that in New Zealand:
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