The MBA Program is an internationally-recognized degree designed to develop the skills required for careers in business and management. However, the value of MBA is not limited strictly to the business world. MBA Program can also be useful for students pursuing managerial career in the public sectors, government, and private industrial sectors, and other areas. The most core courses in the MBA program cover various areas of business such as Accounting, Applied Statistics, Business Communication, Business Ethics, Business Law, Organizational Behavior and Design, Global/International Business, Information Technology, Finance, Managerial Economics, Leadership and Management, Entrepreneurship, Marketing, and Operations in a manner most relevant to management analysis and strategy as well as elective courses that allow students/participants to follow their own personal or professional interests. Some schools require that MBA students/graduates have to complete internship at companies or organizations, which they can lead to concrete job opportunities after the completion of the MBA program.

Essentially, the business context in Cambodia has rapidly changed and need to improve their governance in the business firms, enterprises, organizations and government sectors. Therefore, in order to meet the globalization in Cambodia, the graduate programs in the Business Administration are designed to meet the urgent needs of professionals to advance and modernize business, leadership, management, and enrich professional skills and knowledge for innovation and wisdom to address our today’s global economic challenges.

MBA Program is designed to pursue and develop high performing students with an entrepreneurial spirit into innovative leaders and ready to tackle challenges of today's global business environment and seize the right opportunities for the right business with the right education. Therefore, the Graduate School of Management Economics offers MBA degrees with specializations in Human Resource Management, Management, Economics, Finance, International Business, Marketing and Entrepreneurship as well as EMBA, which intend to develop students into future leaders and executives. In addition,  the programs are directly linked to practical experiences, career goals, and professional development and respond to the major challenges and complexities in world economy, world businesses, and organizations today is changing rapidly: globalization, growing importance of knowledge and intangible, and the uncertainty and risks in the markets.

Major: Human Resource Management

Course Description

ENGL500       Writing for Graduate Studies

Students will study the academic English to advance and broaden their knowledge in order to be able to keep pace with the requirements of the Graduate School assignments and progressive work. The course enables them to understand how human being utilizes oral and written language to interact with each other in the learning environments.  Furthermore, students will do their best to explore different styles of academic writing and develop basic skills in conducting academic research based on comparison and analysis of various case studies. Significantly, students will build on their foundation knowledge through their own research in various topics assigned and verified by professor of the course and strength in an academic essay writing style.

MGT 505        Fundamentals of Management

This course will provide students with the fundamental principles and skills needed for the field of Management. It refreshes students in the process of accumulating managerial responsibility at their workplace with updated theories and managerial cases. The course also discusses various topics related to management theory, history of management, organizational culture, planning and practical applications for managers who work in small and large organizations. Finally, it enables students to learn how to use management and leadership skills in a decision making process.

NATS 510      Global Environment Awareness

This course introduces students to concepts and theories related to world environment. It discusses a natural process of an ecological system, economic and social development in equilibrium to environmental conditions. Importantly, it brings updates about human activities and environmental pollution causing major problems from draught, inundation, desertification, contaminated soil, air and water to ozone depletion. The course also raises awareness of essence in environmental preservation through various debates about climate change, natural resource protection and conservation and sustainable development from an environmental perspective.

STAT 520       Fundamentals of Statistics

This course is designed for students who have never taken statistics before. It starts with the introduction of the elementary concept of statistics and descriptive statistics and ends with inferential statistics. By the completion of the course, students will learn how to present qualitative and quantitative data from using graphs to summary values. They also learn basic probability theory in order to understand the concept of inferential statistics. The students need to have an increased understanding of inferences, confidence intervals and hypothesis testing along with practices through the final step of the course, as these are vital for them to resume their studies in the field of academic research from Research Methodology course necessitating a requisite of Fundamentals of Statistics.

RESR 525      Research Methodology

This course targets at offering skills and techniques in research to the course followers. The major themes with regard to the course include problem statement development, hypothesis formulation and the practical aspects of research methods to attain the intended and desired research outcomes. It, of course, looks into research proposal, a research scheme and literature review. Essentially, it discusses the citation of documents or the ways to tell the sources of information, surveys, interviews and questionnaires. Moreover, it introduces a comparative aspect of research methods from social discipline to science and business on the basis of the use of the distinctive use of qualitative and quantitative approaches. Ultimately, the course members are expected to be able to develop their own themes and conduct the research for the class, together with the presentation of the written report from research findings.

MGT 530        Governance, Management and Leadership Dynamics

This is an upper level course of management and leadership which looks at how managers and leaders behave and make a decision to deal with an organizational change and a crisis situation. Students will be expected to actively participate in the debate on studies relevant to the themes such as advanced management skills, leadership dynamics and leadership styles. The subtheme on Effective Governance is also introduced for the course followers in order for them to increase an understanding about responsibility, decision making and accountability in the field of management and leadership. A combination of readings and class discussions with hands-on exercises will familiarize students with the variety of approaches one might take to management and leadership. To advance the students’ knowledge in the discipline, case studies on corporations, business firms and public institutions are incorporated into the course.

MGT 535        Human Resource Management

HRM uses a workshop approach to explore day-to-day management issues, with specific focus on the management of human resources.  Specifically, the course will examine staff and managerial issues from an international and national business perspective. This course covers job evaluation, recruitment, selection, orientation and training, compensation management, performance appraisal, labor relations, and employment standards. It also enhances the students’ knowledge from a practical aspect through case studies dealing with underuse or overuse of resource in the personnel management sector.

FIN 545          Financial Management

Students can gain further knowledge in finance from the course of financial management. The themes of the course incorporates the revision of bond and stock valuing, present value and future value, corporate strategies in financing investments, dividend policy, common stock versus preferred stock and weighted average cost of capital. It also looks at how a firm applies its debt policy in exchange for capital to invest, and differentiates among short-term, mid-term and long-term financing and liabilities. It finally examines the essence and use of accounting principles in managing financial operations and transfers in a particular corporation, and compares the difference and similarity of a smart financial manager with a financial rule-oriented manager in solving real world business issues.

MGT 565        Strategic Management and Business Policy

This course will provide students with an opportunity to apply concepts, skills, and techniques to real-world corporate problems and build on existing knowledge in management, hence advancing it to the use of strategies to better manage business and work. The course explains concepts and theories useful in understanding the strategic management process and strategic vision, strategic positioning of a business firm, strategy formulation and implementation. It delves into diamond strategy from Michael Porter, strategy theories and application of strategies for competitiveness and establishing a market niche. Case studies on successful grand business strategies are introduced to broaden further knowledge in strategies used in management assisting managers to achieve the organizational goals successfully and within the given time frame and budget.

MGT 578        Labor and Industrial Relations

The course is designed for either Cambodian or foreign students to be familiar with labor supply and the Cambodian ways in boosting industrial relations with countries in Asia and others. It covers industrial relations in the world economy ranging from industrial policies, manufacturing, foreign trade to labor union. It then examines industrialization of Cambodia’s economy in terms of its garment industry. The course also introduces some basic theoretical issues in industrial relations, i.e. the role of unions, ways of determining wages and the bargaining relationship between employers and employees. The rest of the course analyses a range of practical issues that enable students to fully understand industrial relations and increase their knowledge in labor supply in relation to industry. Finally, it discusses the challenge of employment creation, working conditions in the garment sector, and Cambodia’s benefits and costs from its membership to ASEAN and WTO.

MGT 567        Training and Development

This course addresses the issue of human resource development. It discusses different methods of training from formal to informal approaches, knowledge accumulation, capacity building, skill development, and R & D, seminar, and interview and performance appraisal. Case studies on training for development further the details of the need for training, retraining, restructuring of an organization and the human resource development for an entire organization to adapt to a changing environment of society and economy from market to consumption and supply. By the end of this course, the students are able to gain full insight into ways in establishing competitive edge and market niche of an organization through ongoing training and development efforts and realization of a particular organization.

MGT 575        Strategic Human Resource Management

This course covers various strategies from grand strategies to tactics used in effectively managing human resource. It brings empirical studies relevant to institutional capacity, governance, human capital enrichment and HRM issues. The course compares the empirical studies from different workshops and participatory approaches from students’ group discussion and debate in a panelist format. It also tries to address a problem solving skill in HRM involving skills in counseling, scenario formulation, simulation, negotiations and crisis management techniques.

MGT 580        Human Behavior in Organizations

The course analyses employees’ behavior at workplace. It thoroughly examines relationship among employees, employers, customers, stakeholders and end users within and outside the organization. The course specifically elaborates themes on staff performance, motivation theories, socialization, interpersonal communication, organizational objective setting, working environments, team building and allocation of resources. Case studies about certain organizations will be introduced to discuss in detail the behavior of personnel, staff, employer and customers necessary for the effectiveness of an organization. The course members, in the end, are able to develop self-motivation from intrinsic and extrinsic factors to promote efficiency and effectiveness of an organization as their future career or one of their professions. They better understand an organization from structure to the outcome so that communication flows are decentralized. 

MGT 585        Compensation Management

This course aims to clarify the principles and basic concepts of compensation management in organizations, including the role of human resources management in dealing with employees, and methods used to provide compensation. It also highlights the importance of maintaining the capable education qualification, the value of developing their skills, and the significance of providing the appropriate atmosphere for them. Several important topics will be addressed in the class such as: Compensation professionals’ goals within a human resource department. Ways to strengthen the pay-for-performance link and health insurance concepts.

ECON 515      Fundamentals of Economics

This course, in its traditional sense, does not deal with economic issues. It focuses on the principles of economics necessitated for practical applications in the economics. The course also provides basic knowledge in Microeconomics and Macroeconomics used as economic tools of analysis. This is to be accomplished by raising certain key problems or issues relevant to the economics principles, teaching the tools necessary for analysis, and finally applying these tools to analyze the problems.

FIN 540          Quantitative Methods in Decision Making

This course introduces the graduate student to the basic methods of empirical inquiry in the social sciences. The major studies focuses on testing hypotheses, empirical models, predictions and estimating policy impacts based on quantitative or statistical analysis. This course provides a basic introduction for students ranging from quantitative approaches for research and policy analysts to qualitative ones. It also provides a solid foundation in statistical inference, enabling the student to become a competent producer of basic statistical research. In addition, the skills acquired from the course enable the students to become a more sophisticated consumer of advanced research methodologies.

ACCT 545      Accounting for Managers

The course describes how accounting transactions are compiled into financial statements and how information about company performance can be extracted from those statements. It also addresses decisions in such areas as sales and marketing, human resources, and acquisitions that are impacted by accounting information. The course describes several tools, including target costing and constraint analysis, which can be used to understand how accounting information can be used to drive business decisions and improve upon business decisions.

MGT 550        Total Quality Management

Quality management is essential to any business and enterprise. This course, following the path of top quality achievement, seeks to explore a process of quality control in production, a concept of total quality management (TQM) with a focus on its practical aspects, Six Sigma-based quality, ISO quality format as well as a quality system. It will enable students to well assimilate quality control, quality as a top priority in business and production and its value as a long-term foundation for competition. The case studies on Japanese-style quality management and on major enterprises, i.e. Philips, Nokia, Motorola, Intel, Toyota automobiles and Ford automobiles are provided to motivate students to discuss the outcomes of adherence to the principles of quality from corporation to corporation, respectively.

MGT 555        Managing Change and Innovation

Organizations today operate in a world of accelerated change. Change is not a new phenomenon, but is a process and not something extraordinary. Ability to well cope up with change, a business firm is capable to stay competitive in a marketplace. This course covers approaches to deal with change from planned change, predicted change to emergent change and unplanned one. It also explores strategies utilized by firms to undergo changes successfully, and studies roles of change agent, the preparation for effective management of change and the external as well as internal environmental scanning for means and implementation of managing change effectively. With an understanding of the nature of change from the course, the students will be able to explore conceptually the implications of change, and can develop their skills in change management with effectiveness.

BUS 555         International Businesses

This course explores the implications of global economic integration in a world of national differences, focusing on corporations and business global firms that operate in several countries. The emergence of a world economy has also produced unparalleled opportunities to test theories developed in a single national border relative to other trading nations. The course examines the growth of the multinationals and international trade theories linked to practical cases differing from country to country. It also deepens an understanding of basic human behavior and is to find out practical world business elevating real academic value relevant to the disciplines of politics, business, economics, psychology, and sociology. Due to the fact that the world has become more and more open in terms of economics, politics and culture, students can pursue their research studies in countries with widely divergent cultures, economic systems and political institutions so as to broaden their understanding and knowledge in international business.

MGT 560        International Corporate Management

International corporate management course focuses on management methods employed by corporations in business expansion and bringing in higher profitability for their shareholders. The course includes consulting services, structure of corporation, management styles of corporation and strategic competitive edge of corporate enterprises. Empirical studies of successful corporations, i.e. Microsoft, Wall Mart, Del and Sony are realized to enhance further knowledge in the corporate management of the modern days. It ultimately looks into management by a corporate enterprise in the context of new acquisition and merging.

MGT 570        Negotiations and Conflict Resolution in Business

This interdisciplinary course examines various formal and informal methods of conflict resolution, which are often used in business, law, diplomacy, politics, and in everyday life. The course also focuses on developing effective strategies and techniques in negotiation for reaching different agreements. It emphasizes economic, cultural, psychological, and ethical areas essential to conflict resolution and negotiation.  The course compares and contrasts the traditional methods and styles of conflict resolution used in Cambodian society with the methods and styles commonly used in Western countries.

MKT 575        Consumer Behaviors

This course overviews the dynamic nature of consumer behavior and their influences on marketing and the power impact of marketing on consumer. Actually, consumer behavior is a multi-disciplinary field of study which incorporates theories and principals from psychology, sociology, anthropology, marketing and other areas of study. All these areas help to better explain the phenomena of selecting, purchasing, using and disposing of products and services. We are all neophyte consumer behaviorists because of our personal experiences in the marketplace. For a graduate level class, the trend of contemporary consumer research will be introduced.

MGT 576        Project Management in Business

The course designed for the provision of the evolution and update about business projects in a changing international business enables financial and business managers to be well prepared and ready to manage various projects. It focuses on project planning, project scope, Gann Chart, PERT Analysis, project proposal, project implementation and evaluation. Case studies on private projects, i.e. NGOs/firms and public projects are to enhance debate and analysis of projects from a practical aspect. In the end, the students are able to formulate project proposals, manage business projects and contribute to bringing in profits and benefits for their firms.

MKT 580        Marketing Management and Strategy

This course is designed to provide students with a concise and practical management guide to the latest ideas in advanced Marketing and Strategy. The course shows how to develop a marketing orientation in the organization and how this impacts on the ultimate corporate goals of profit, growth and security. Then, students examine how marketing strategies are developed and implemented through effective product, pricing, distribution, communication and services. This course enables students to better appreciate the role of marketing in individual firms as well as the wider community and also examines how a business can make effective use of marketing concepts to achieve an understanding of the objectives of both its competitors and its customers, and to make appropriate buying, selling, pricing and investment decisions. At last, contemporary marketing issues are examined to determine their influence upon households, firms, and industries.

ENTR 586      Social Innovations and Entrepreneurship

The course aims to provide students with a new orientation and way of thinking to organize and lead sustainable development, namely through social innovation and entrepreneurship. Sustainability encompasses many dimensions, including the long-term maintenance of responsibility, which has environmental, economic, and social dimensions. This course focuses upon ways in which social innovation and entrepreneurship are driving the delivery of social (including environmental) value in communities, and the way in which this (accelerating economic) relationship drives social changes, both globally and locally. The course will help you to develop awareness and critical understanding of the accelerating economic relationship between the government, business and the third (non-for-profit) sectors, in areas of social innovation and entrepreneurship.

HRM596        Comprehensive Examination

                        Complete two courses prior to written and oral comprehensive exams

HRM 597       Project Report

This course is designed for students to complete MBA in Human Resource Management by Project Report. The students take this graduation path, they are required to successfully complete all the required courses for 42 credits and project report for 6 credits totaling 48 credits. Prior to the project report writing, students are required to complete the required courses for 36 credits (18 foundation courses + 6 basic courses + 12 core courses).

HRM 598       Thesis

This course is designed for students to complete MBA in Human Resource Management by Thesis. The students take this graduation path, they are required to successfully complete all the required courses for 36 credits and thesis for 12 credits totaling 48 credits. Prior to the thesis writing, students are required to complete the required courses for 36 credits (18 foundation courses + 6 basic courses + 12 core courses).