Faculty of Management and Leadership

As organisations face the need to be increasingly competitive both locally and globally, it is essential that managerial staff be equipped to address the impact of economic change in their specific contexts. Management education needs, therefore, to focus on equipping students with the necessary skills and attributes.

The Faculty of Management and Leadership believes that a business school is a place where students learn how to think about business, about creative solutions to old problems, and about management. Thinking alone, however, is not enough. Managers and leaders must also be practically and strategically effective. The challenges facing South African leaders include employment equity, employee advancement, significant skills shortages and increasing productivity and cost efficiencies. So today’s leaders need to learn how to innovate – in respect of new products, individuals, operating practices, management tactics and business strategies.

Business schools should offer qualifications that provide a blend of the traditional forms of business knowledge (finance, operations, marketing, strategy and human resources) with new economy business skills (team skills, problem solving and innovative thinking).

Milpark Business School's Faculty of Management and Leadership offers qualifications that encourage its graduates to think in the future tense. We understand the complexities of operating in an ever-changing environment and realise that today’s students, more than ever before, need to be able to harness change and innovation continuously. Great leaders need to be great learners!