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Master Program: International Action Learning MBA

Learning purpose

Real Time Challenges

In this International Executive programme you will NOT work on endless theoretical or historical cases. Instead you will focus on your own organisation’s real-time challenges that need to be solved, to get on with your job. By solving these challenges as an Action Learning team, with the help of your fellow students and BSN’s expert faculty, you will not only gain knowledge but will be advancing your career from the start of this course. In addition you will gain international learning experiences through interaction with fellow students and acclaimed faculty from different parts of the world during your 2 block visits to the Netherlands. Your Action Learning Projects and Dissertation form the backbone of your studies. All these projects are based on your own professional workplace learning and the outcome is assessed by a team of specialist BSN faculty. ith this Action Learning methodology BSN takes its programme further than the “standard” academic programmes, thus creating better leaders beyond academics.

 

Target audience

For managers around the world

This International Executive programme is for busy managers that like learning by doing. If you have so many daily challenges already that it seems impossible to combine them with a MBA study – then the International Action Learning MBA is for you.

 

Programme

Phase 1

Here we lay the theoretical foundation on which your future study will be based; this creates a common conceptual framework whilst you follow the IALMBA. You will generate an ‘Organisational Analysis’ of your own company and design a Personal Development Plan based on your current leadership skills.

 

Phase 2

Kicks off with a residential international conference in the Netherlands or South Africa. You will meet your fellow classmates face to face for the first time. Here faculty members are keen to share experiences and knowledge. Following each conference, students work on the Action Learning Projects (ALPs), which they selected in their organisations. Students will aid each other as members of a project team. Where student numbers permit, (minimum 4) geographical sets will be established for additional face to face coaching. Students have access to the virtual class environment, where continued networking, discussion, and exchange of experiences is encouraged, supported and coached by one of our renowned expert facilitators. A written report of the projects, one for each of the six Core Courses, will serve as the assignment, in which the students should demonstrate that they have studied the body of knowledge and have been able to apply it.

 

Phase 3

Rounds up the successful conclusion of your MBA by completing the Masters Project. This differs from the ALPs in phase 2 by addressing a relevant problem or challenge that is considered of strategic value to your organisation. The internal examiner provides continued support during this final phase.

 

Entry Requirements

Who can apply?

MBA students must have finalised at least a Bachelor’s study and hold a management or management trainee position. In certain circumstances exception can be made for managers that do not hold a Bachelor Degree, based on the extent of their professional experience. In such cases an APEL (Accreditation of Prior Experiential Learning) interview will be required. Completion of the English literacy test is also a requirement. Furthermore the organization that the student works for has to be fully supportive, to enable students to execute their change projects (Action Learning Projects and Dissertation Project). These projects are in all cases intended to directly benefit the said organizations by finding best fit solutions with the intent to learn from it as well.

 

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