MBA – Aviation Management

Program Learning Outcome

At the end of the program, students will be able to : 

  • Apply theories & concepts in the decision making process in the business enviroment.
  • Conduct research with minimal supervision.
  • Generate solution to problems using scientific and critical thinking skills.
  • Adhere to legal, ethical & professional codes of practice.
  • Communicate effectively in a business context, both orally & in writing.
  • Demostrate the skills & principles of like long learning in their academic and career development.
  • Work & function effectively in a team.
  • Demonstrate managerial & leadership qualities in organizational context.
  • Identify and develop business opportunities.

 

Programme Structure

46 Credits

(27 Credits)

Strategic Management

Code: MBSA 1213

Pre-Requisite Course(s):

  • Accounting for Business Decision Making
  • Marketing Management

Synopsis: In this course, participants are given strategy concepts for knowledge and applications both at the organizational and the strategic business unit (SBU) levels. The development of strategic thinking permits participants to approach complex organizational scenarios and opportunities from a larger perspective, particularly in the context of globalization of businesses, and with regard to business operational strategies as they relate to the overall corporate strategies of the organization. This course also focuses on the development and implementation of marketing and implementation plans of its corporate and strategic business units according to the ever-changing global market environment. Simultaneously, this course explores effective management of corporate, business model and operational strategies towards gaining competitive advantage for business organizations.

Leading Talent in Organizations

Code: MBSA 1623

Pre-Requisite Course(s): None

Synopsis: In this dynamic and global business environment, effective leadership and outstanding human resource are the keys to organizational success. This course focuses on equipping students with the knowledge and competencies to lead, manage and develop talents in organizations. The course is built upon the foundations of leadership and human resource management disciplines. Students will learn to lead talents by understanding the behaviors of individuals, groups and organizations as a whole, and achieving talent professionalism as well as organizational effectiveness through human resource management activities.

Accounting for Business Decision Making

Code: MBSA 1413

Pre-Requisite Course(s): None

Synopsis: This course is designed to expose participants to important issues in accounting relevant to business organizations. Its main aim is to provide knowledge and develop a general understanding of how these issues are relevant and affect business operations. Participants are taught on how to interpret financial statements and understand the implications for their organizations. The course also discusses the various costing concepts and methodologies to help build awareness on the importance of cost and profit, so that participants will be cost conscious and strive for productivity and profitability as they ethically perform tasks at their workplace.

New Venture Creation

Code: MBSA 2313

Pre-Requisite Course(s):

  • Accounting for Business Decision Making
  • Marketing Management

Synopsis: Entrepreneurship education is an integral component of business education since it focuses on recognizing a business opportunity, starting a business based on the recognized opportunity and sustaining that business. As well realized, successful entrepreneurship requires more than merely luck and money. Education provides skills and tools to the process of creativity, innovativeness, risk taking and planning to ensure higher survivability. This course is designed to provide a contemporary perspective on the theory, process and practice of entrepreneurship. It also focuses on important aspects of the business start-up process with a business model canvas as the grand outcome. The development processes are applicable to both small business and corporate environments.

Business Research

Code: MBSA 1713

Pre-Requisite Course(s): None

Synopsis: Understanding of organizational issues requires managers to know the methodologies to acquire relevant information (data) accurately. The course is delivered as a series of modules by a team of lecturers. It addresses knowledge needed to conduct the following projects: 1) scientific research, 2) case writing research, 3) business plan, and 4) consultancy project. Students are expected to produce any of the following outputs: 1) mini research report, 2) caselet and teaching note, 3) business plan, or 4) consultancy report. Presentation of these outputs shall be presented and evaluated by at least two examiners nominated by IBS. The outputs of the course will be carried through shall students opt for Business Research Project course (MBSA 2923).

Strategic Innovative Marketing

Code:  MBSA 1323

Pre-Requisite Course(s): None

Synopsis: This course will help students develop a deeper understanding of marketing and its applications primarily through practical problem solving exercises based on current and future outlook of the market environment particularly IR4.0 revolution. The students will learn how to practice marketing principles to make better decisions, from high level strategic decisions to more granular, tactical ones centred on the effective deployment of the marketing mix elements and ethical norms. The course will be taught using cases, lectures, and a major field project which has student teams working with companies or establishing their own marketing plans.

Managerial Economics & Policy Analysis

Code:  MBSA 1523

Pre-Requisite Course(s): None

Synopsis: The main objective of this course is to provide a sound grounding in the basic principles of micro and macroeconomics and their application to business decision making, to facilitate informed reading of economic of economic media and achieve an understanding of the broader economic issues faced by businesses in Malaysia, and to understand how fiscal policy and monetary policy affect the economy and business decision.

Strategic Financial Management

Code:  MBSA 1463

Pre-Requisite Course(s): None

Synopsis: Business organizations are torn between effective business services for consumers and organizational profitability. This is pertinent in view of the need to strategize their operations within the competitive business market, especially for private businesses. The governance of corporations in contemporary business and socio-economic environments is further explored looking into in-depth analysis and evaluation of the role, responsibility, integrity and accountability of corporations and their directors, managers and officers. The complex and multi-faceted relationships of the corporations with the government and society. Topics covering the corporation as a unique form of social organization acting as catalyst for reform towards enhancing the strength, resilience and morality of civil society of the nation and the world would be covered and critically examined.

Business Information System

Code:  MBSA 1133

Pre-Requisite Course(s): None

Synopsis: In this course, participants are given strategy concepts for knowledge and application both at the business and corporate levels. The development of strategic thinking permits participants to approach complex organizational scenarios and opportunities from a larger perspective, particularly in the context of globalization of businesses, and with regard to business operational strategies as they relate to the overall corporate strategies of the organization. This course explores effective management of corporate, business and operational strategies towards gaining competitive advantage for business organizations.

(9 Credits)

Airline Operations (compulsary)

Code: MBSA 2153

Pre-Requisite Course(s): None

Synopsis: This course is designed to provide students with an overview to airline operations; this includes all operational aspects of staffing and running an airline. Students will learn the fundamentals of airline operational strategy. The course examines the various types of airline route structures, in particular huband- spoke and point-to-point. Based on airline network strategy fleet planning is also investigated. The airline as a product will be explored including product design and distribution. The importance of fuel on airline operations will be evaluated in terms of its economic impact, and special consideration will be given to fuel conservation. All of these aspects will then be encapsulated in the context of air fare structure and yield management and their importance for airline operations.

Airport Operations (compulsary)

Code: MBSA 2163

Pre-Requisite Course(s): None

Synopsis: This course is designed to provide students with an understanding of the practical knowledge to manage key airport operations with high efficiency and safety. Understand and meet the operational requirements of main stakeholders: airlines, authorities, ground service providers, passengers, and freight forwarders.

Human Factors in Aviation Safety and Maintenance

Code: MBSA 2683

Pre-Requisite Course(s): None

Synopsis: The majority of aviation accidents and incidents have roots in human factors. With that realization, comes the revelation that quality human factors training is effective in improving aviation safety and maintenance. This course provides human factors knowledge and practical tools that can be applied to improve safety and maintenance in the organisations. Emphasis is placed on identifying the causes of human error, predicting how human error can affect performance, applying counter measures to reduce or eliminate its effects, specific issues such as fatigue management, deviations for approved procedure and situation awareness.

Aviation Safety Management System

Code: MBSA 2293

Pre-Requisite Course(s): None

Synopsis: This course provides the essential skills to manage the aviation safety system as well as the principles and practices needed to manage the problems associated with aircraft maintenance operations. Aviation system management is important to ensure that all safety risks in the organisations have been identified, assessed and satisfactorily mitigated. It is the function which exists to assist managers in better discharging their responsibilities for operational system design and implementation through either the prediction of system’s deficiencies before errors occur or the identification and correction of system’s deficiencies by professional analysis of safety occurrences.

Aviation Crisis Management

Code: MBSA 2283

Pre-Requisite Course(s): None

Synopsis: This course is designed for individuals who are involved in either preparing for an accident or responding to one as a representative of their organisation. It is based on the premise that accidents are relatively rare events and organisations may have little experience in dealing with them. While the situation is usually complex, challenging, and stressful, the impact on individuals or an organisation can be reduced by preparation and developing an effective response plan. The course presents the principles of Human Factors, Management, Investigation and Analysis. It is realized that very few people will investigate a major accident but all supervisors will investigate incidents and make recommendations. It will provide you with the why incidents occur. It will explain how incidents are discovered, investigated, and reported in writing. Finally, the student will learn the techniques of data collection and analysis

in collaboration with

3 credits.

Organization Behavior and Development

Code: UBSE 1123

Pre-Requisite Course(s): None

Synopsis:

The Techno-Entrepreneurship course is designed for students interested in learning about how to start and manage technology-based high-impact ventures. This course brings together both the traditional in- class learning and practical experience and the interaction with the entrepreneurs and other related industry players. It introduces the strategies to assess the potential of a new business concept and thus improve the success of high-impact ventures. It offers significant, fascinating and stimulating experiences through a variety of innovative teaching and learning techniques. This course utilizes the case studies on technology-based ventures to show challenges of creating technological ventures including the financial and human resources facets. For this purpose, pedagogical methods including sharing sessions by successful entrepreneurs and problem-based learning based on real business scenarios are applied to foster technological-based entrepreneurial behaviour and action.

Business Ethics, Responsibility and Sustainability

Code: MBSA 1533

Pre-Requisite Course(s): None

Synopsis:

Business plays a significant role in societal and environmental well-being. Private and public organizations are no longer responsible to shareholders and those inside the organizations, but to external parties including consumers, politicians, regulators, communities and ordinary citizens. To fulfill the conflicting needs of these stakeholders, business leaders and managers often encounter complex situations which require them to make difficult decisions whereby the lines between right and wrong are blurry. This course aims to provide students the fundamental knowledge about the role of organizations in a society and to develop their skills to sustainably manage organizations that integrate legal, ethical, economic, environmental, and social dimensions into their decision-making. The course intends to develop responsible managers who have high integrity, professionalism and interpersonal skills. The course will also teach strategies on how managers can promote responsible conducts in their companies. The course objectives will be achieved through various teaching and learning methods specifically through critical examination of case studies involving ethical issues and dilemmas on complex and controversial business problems. This course is integrative in nature built upon the understanding and reflection of the main disciplines covered in the core courses in the MBA program.

7 credits.

Action Research I

Code: MBSA 2933

Pre-Requisite Course(s): None

Synopsis:

This course is designed to address problem(s) in organisation based on management, marketing, accounting, finance, and entrepreneurship fields. The students are expected to produce individual project based on their specialization/concentration. The students are required to choose action research as the mode of this project. In doing so, the students should find a suitable company to work on the real life problem. In Action Research I, the students will prepare the proposal of the project which consists of three main parts: (a) identification of the problem, (b) applicability of the relevant models/concepts, (c) designing for the solution. At the end of the semester, this proposal will be assessed by the supervisor.

Action Research II

Code: MBSA 2934

Pre-Requisite Course(s): None

Synopsis:

This course is designed to address problem(s) in organisation based on management, marketing, accounting, finance, and entrepreneurship fields. The students are expected to produce individual project based on their specialization/concentration. The students are required to choose action research as the mode of this project. In doing so, the students should find a suitable company to work on the real life problem. The Action Research II is the continuation of Action Research I in which the students will complete the full project under the guidance of the chosen supervisor. Upon submission of the final report, the students are required to present their findings in front of the examiner. The BRP report is examined by both supervisor and the examiner on the basis of 70:30 ratios.

Admission Requirements

The Minimum entry requirement to the MBA program are as follows:

  • An honours degree from UTM or other recognized universities or an equivalent academic qualification from an overseas establishment approved by the University Senate.
  • Certain professional qualifications will also be considered.
  • At least two years post-qualification working experience.

Minimum English requirement (For International Candidates Only)
ELTS ≥ Band 6.0 / TOEFL ≥ 550 
OR
IELTS = Band 5.5 525 ≤ TOEFL < 550

Must attend English Course Certificate (equivalent to 120 hours of intermediate English)

Admission Through APEL (Malaysian Candidates Only)

  • Admission through APEL (for Malaysian candidates only)
  •  More than 30 years of age in the year of application; and
  •  STPM / Recognized Diploma / A-Levels / Equivalent; and
  • Relevant work experience / prior experiential learning; and
  •  Pass the APEL Assessment (Aptitude Test, Portfolio & Interview)
Application Procedure
  1. Application must be made online at admission.utm.my
  2. The following documents must be uploaded into the online application portal:
  3. • Certified copy of Bachelor Degree• Certified copy of Diploma (if any)• Certified copy of Academic Transcript(s)• Certified copy of English Certified of IELTS/TOEFL with band score of 6.0/550 (for international candidates only)• Passport-sized Photograph• Copy of Passport (for international applicants)• Two Referee Letter (Not compulsory)• Financial Guarantee / Bank Account Statement (for self-sponsored candidate)• Two copies of Scholarship Letter (If any)
  4. • Proof of processing fee being paid
  1. 3.Only completed application will be processed

STUDENT’S EXPERIENCE

“From the very first day I came to UTM IBS, I was impressed by the professors. Apart from all the high standard facilities and learning opportunities, all the lecturers of UTM IBS are truly concerned about each student’s success.”

Dr Faizan Ali, IBS Alumni

Assistant Professor, University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee

CONTACT DETAILS

For more information about the program, please contact:

Name Mr. Noor Ashruf Adzmawi bin Noor Akmar
Email   ashruf@utm.my
Telephone   +603-2180 5031
 

For more information about the admission process, please contact;

 Email   pgrad@utm.my
 Telephone   +607-5537900
 Website    admission.utm.my

Any inquiry about course registration, please contact:

Name  AHIBS KL Academic Office 
Email  

academic.ahibs@utm.my

Telephone

+603-2180 5023/5024/5025

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