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Management and Business Administration

The "Management and Business Administration" (MGE) specialization trains students to deal with the major management issues facing companies (and organizations in general) through a multi-disciplinary approach to management science. Particular attention is paid to understanding and taking account of environmental and social issues in the management of organizations. The course aims to provide students with a reflexive mastery of managerial decision-making techniques: strategy & CSR, corporate finance, management control, marketing, human resources/international management, project management, business law, etc.

At a glance

Admission

Competition

Language

French

Modality

Face-to-face

Description

In the first year, courses provide the fundamentals of management and administration, enabling students to seek an internship in their chosen field. The second semester is devoted to a 4-6 month internship.
 

 

The second year is spent in an apprenticeship program, alternating three weeks in a company and one week at Sciences Po Grenoble - UGA, for a total of 12 weeks of classes spread over the academic year. This approach makes it much easier to find a job, both in the company where the apprenticeship is carried out and on the job market in general. Initial positions are similar to those at a business school or Institut d'Administration des Entreprises.

This course gives you the opportunity to apply to the UGA Graduate School and one of its 15 thematic programs, the STEEN (societies in ecological, economic and digital transition) program on transitions. The Graduate School@UGA is a new training program through and for research launched in 2021 within the Université Grenoble Alpes, involving all UGA schools and components.
The aim of these thematic programs is to offer interested students a structuring, interdisciplinary training program of academic excellence. Each thematic program develops a specific line of research, leading to a thesis or direct professional integration.
Participation in the @UGA Graduate School is for 2 years (M1 and M2) and may open the possibility of obtaining an academic scholarship for 2 years for the best international students (non-French baccalaureate holders).
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Skills

Reference lists of activities and skills targeted by the training program.

  • Identify emerging news in relation to communication issues;
  • Problematize a communication issue and mobilize an appropriate theoretical framework ;
  • Conduct a literature review on the subject and compile a structured bibliography;
  • Identify and map the stakeholders involved;
  • Design and popularize communication grids based on innovative theoretical frameworks;
  • Design and produce a variety of communication media;
  • Organize and promote public events on communication-related topics.

Skills blocks associated with the activity: RNCP34024BC01 - Conduct a reflective and distanced analysis, taking into account the complexity of a request or situation; RNCP34024BC05 - Work in a collaborative environment

  • Identify the scope of the study and the communication challenges;
  • Contextualize and identify the stakeholders involved in a communication issue;
  • Carry out a strategic watch and diagnosis of the strengths and weaknesses of an ecosystem in relation to the issue at hand;
  • Identify and formulate objectives and goals based on the expectations of a given target (consumers, voters, users, institutional players);
  • Relating information from a critical perspective ;
  • Use one or more methodological tools related to the problem;
  • Produce and present a strategic analysis, both orally and in writing, in French or English.

Skills block associated with the activity: RNCP34024BC02 - Express your thoughts clearly and concisely in writing and orally, in French and English

  • Monitor communication trends and practices;
  • Gather political and/or market issues and transform them into communication research questions;
  • Design and write a proposal that takes into account the expectations and needs of a target audience;
  • Justify and present the project to a customer, both orally and in writing;
  • Manage the deployment of a consulting strategy and support the client in its implementation and management over the short and medium term.

Skills block associated with the activity: RNCP34024BC02 - Express your thoughts clearly and concisely in writing and orally, in French and English

  • Identify, define and create a communication device in line with the objective ;
  • Test and validate new communication devices;
  • Produce and implement a multi-channel communication medium in line with the needs of the target audience;
  • Monitor, measure and report on the effectiveness of online and offline communication tools;
  • Take stock of actions undertaken with a view to optimizing future processes.

Skills block associated with the activity: RNCP34024BC02 - Express your thoughts clearly and concisely in writing and orally, in French and English

  • Design and manage an online or offline brand reputation strategy for an internal or external audience;
  • Managing a public relations campaign in the private or public sector;
  • Manage and disseminate the image of a political, market or institutional entity;
  • Identify a crisis situation and implement a specific plan to manage it ;
  • Coordinate and manage internal and external stakeholders in a communications project within an organization; ?
  • Manage and ensure relationships with service providers and project stakeholders;
  • Set up a sponsorship and fundraising campaign;
  • Draw up and monitor a provisional budget.

The aim of the Management and Business Administration program is to enable students to develop key professional activities over the course of their training. A set of skills is associated with each activity. The skills repository sets out in an orderly fashion the steps required to successfully complete the activity.

Reference lists of activities and skills targeted by the training program.

- Carry out a state of the art on environmental and societal issues;
- Identify the environmental and societal issues relevant to the organization;
- Characterize the organization's positioning in relation to the issues;
- Assess the reciprocal impacts between the company and its environment;
- Draft and formalize a diagnosis, in French and English;
- Present, both orally and in writing, the elements of the diagnosis.

- Determine the strategic orientations of the audit;
- Draw up an inventory of the organizational structures, methods, procedures and tools used;
- Identify the organization's resources;
- Propose changes adapted to the organization's needs;
- Draft and formalize a diagnosis, in French and English;
- Present, both orally and in writing, the elements of the diagnosis.

- Gather and study the organization's financial data;
- Assess variances between results and objectives;
- Draw up an organization's financial forecasts;
- Create visual representation and decision-making tools;
- Carry out and formalize a financial and management control diagnosis of an organization;
- Present, both orally and in writing, the elements of the diagnosis.

- Carry out a market and competitor study;
- Take stock of existing resources within the organization;
- Define the organization's marketing objectives;
- Develop the marketing mix by product or service;
- Identify digital communication tools;
- Define the communication plan.

- Define the project objective and evaluation criteria;
- Define, plan and monitor progress milestones;
- Identify and manage the risks inherent in the project;
- Identify the players and coordinate their activities;
- Communicate and report on project progress to the various stakeholders.

- Define a shared objective, taking into account the personal aspirations of team members;
- Identify and take into account personality differences and manage disputes;
- Carry out market and competitor research;
- Take stock of the resources required for the project;
- Draw up an organization's financial forecasts;
- Define, plan and monitor progress milestones;
- Draw up and formalize a business plan;
- Argue and defend the creative project, both orally and in writing.

- Identify and apply regulatory frameworks relating to work;
- Analyze types of interlocutors and their expectations;
- Identify and take into account personality and cultural differences in a professional context;
- Define and negotiate objectives;
- Communicate positions and manage disputes.

- Carry out an academic literature review;
- Problematize a complex phenomenon or situation;
- Define a scientific research design;
- Apply qualitative and quantitative scientific methods;
- Collect and analyze empirical data;
- Write a research article in academic language;
- Present and discuss results orally.

Job opportunities

The MGE Master's degree offers training in the various dimensions of organizational management (strategy, finance and management control, marketing, HRM, etc.). It trains professionals capable of tackling multi-disciplinary management problems in a variety of organizational contexts: companies, banks, insurance companies and mutual societies, associations, etc.

The range of possible positions is therefore broad:
 

  • Functional departments of large and medium-sized companies: strategy, commercial/international development, finance, management control and internal audit, marketing, human resources
  • Consultants in various fields (strategy, finance, organization and management, human resources, etc.), financial auditors (statutory auditors, special assignments on mergers and acquisitions, etc.).
  • Project or study manager
  • Junior product marketing manager
  • Company creator

Contact

Anne Bartel-Radic
Professor of Management Sciences
anne.bartel-radic@sciencespo-grenoble.fr


Sébastien Gand
Senior Lecturer HDR in Management Sciences
sebastien.gand@sciencespo-grenoble.fr

Naziha Mezlini
Tel. 04 76 82 60 68
contact-parcours-mge@sciencespo-grenoble.fr

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