Getting ahead in the business world today requires precision and speed. UCAM University’s Integrated Doctorate in Management (IDM) online program is designed for working professionals who want to accelerate their leadership path. This program offers an accelerated pathway to a doctoral qualification, blending master’s-level coursework, applied research, and dissertation components. Over the course of 40 months, you will acquire advanced knowledge and practical skills that are essential for thriving in dynamic, innovation-driven business environments.
The program presents an extraordinary and exclusive opportunity to earn three prestigious qualifications. In just 40 months, you will achieve:
Additionally, you will earn prestigious recognitions from global organisations:
This triple qualification accelerates your career while equipping you with strategic leadership, research expertise, and prestigious certifications, making you a sought-after professional in today’s dynamic business landscape. Combining research-driven learning with practical coursework, the program delivers actionable insights—all in a fully online format that ensures flexibility to balance work, study, and life.
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Course
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Year 1
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Introduction to Research Methods
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10
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Applied Research in Organizational Behaviour and Leadership
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10
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Contemporary Research in Business Analytics
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10
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Innovation and Sustainability Research Perspectives
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10
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Action Research Approaches in Operational Managemen
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10
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Doctoral Research Proposal
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10
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Year 2
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Thesis Registration
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60
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Confirmation of Supervision
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Year 3
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Thesis Completion
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60
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Defense
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Total Credits
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180
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Module Description
The objective of this module is to make students understand the human resource management, and equip them with knowledge, skill and competencies to manage people along with material, information, capital and knowledge asset in the organization, to equip the students in formulating their own managerial and leadership, style, their assumptions and belief about ‘people’ and their behaviours in an organization. Given the state of competition and globalization, business environments are getting volatile and managing Human Resources is a challenge faced by present day organizations in both domestic and global scenario. This module helps students relate HRM practices in globalized context, its significance, scope and practices in relation to International Human Resource Management.
Learning Outcomes
Module description
Change dynamics challenges managers due to the inherent uncertainty and need for adaptability. Strategic change impacts the human resources structure of the organisation and this often means a restructuring of the workforce or changes in working practices.
This course defines sequential process, role and dynamics to organizational change, which imparts the skills and knowledge to support active engagement in the process of strategic change management and further highlights ways of dealing with it. It focuses on need, phases and conditions for successful organizational change. The knowledge developed as part of the module assists in real-world decision making. Different organizational interventions are also incorporated. The SCM module is designed to help students understand the dynamics of Strategic Change Management.
Learning Outcomes
LO1. Identify and analyse the implications for managing strategic change in supporting organisational transformation.
LO2. Analyse the organisational management challenges faced during the transformation and changes experienced by the organisation.
LO3. Analyse and evaluate the significance of strategy employed in trying to bring about an effective change management in an organisation. How does this impact leadership and human behaviour in the organisation.
LO4. Evaluate different change management theories propounded on management and leadership attributes which leads to enhanced contribution by managers and the employees.
Module Description
This module is designed to help students understand and evaluate various aspects of Strategic Management in a global context. The module explores theories, models and frameworks to provide insight on how an organization’s life cycle evolves through various stages to achieve excellence. The module helps students to evaluate the relationship between organizational strategies, performance and stakeholder expectations.
Learning Outcomes
LO1. Analyse the concepts and theories of strategic management and critically evaluate the relationship between strategy, stakeholder expectations and organizational performance.
LO2. Evaluate the impact of current and emerging Economic, Political and Cultural factors on strategic management in an International context.
LO3. Formulate business strategies under challenging circumstances of Innovation and Change and evaluate those that contribute to the success of a particular organization.
LO4. Develop plans for the implementation of business strategies and enhance Stakeholder Expectations.
Module Description
The module is designed to help students understand the strategic role of operations management and its competitive advantage for organizational survival. It brings out the relationships between the operations function and other functional areas of a business such as marketing, finance, and information systems and how they can work together to achieve the business strategy.
Learning Outcomes
LO1. Know the various tools, techniques and apply suitable tools and techniques in different alternative scenarios of Operations Management.
LO2. Apply information management techniques and evaluate them in context of operational functions to achieve competitive advantage and make the organization globally competitive.
LO3. Apply and critically evaluate the importance of project management to given usiness situations (Using PERT / CPM).
LO4. Demonstrate operations strategy in domestic and global context and evaluate how the use of technology has impacted the operational functions.
Module Description
This course will enhance participants’ understanding of research process. Participants will critically explore research approaches, language, and ethics. The course will take a step-by- step approach to develop students’ knowledge, skills and understanding on design and implementation of quantitative and qualitative research designs including Cross-sectional surveys, cohort studies, Randomized Controlled Trials, and operational study designs which include quasi experiments and Cluster Randomized Controlled Trials. The course will equip students with the skills necessary to conduct secondary research designs including scoping and systematic reviews. The course will also help students to develop the skills to recognize and reflect on the strengths and limitations of different research methodologies and address ethical and practical issues in research. Further the student will be equipped with the ability to methodologically review and derive meaning from published research work for application in professional practice and growth.
Learning Outcomes
LO1: Identify and describe different quantitative study designs, describe the key elements and weaknesses and strengths associated with each approach, and application of quantitative research in professional Practice.
LO2: To understand Qualitative Research approaches and their application including qualitative data collection, analysis and reporting methods.
LO3: To understand secondary research design and application methods including Scoping and Systematic reviews approaches, and how different research designs can be combined in a mixed method study approach
LO4: To understand the concept of research quality assurance and its application in research integrity and ethical principles and application of validity and reliability principles in research.
Module Description
The course will equip participants with the essential skills, strategies, and tools they need to unlock their fullest potential in taking up expanded leadership responsibilities to guide their organizations effectively. Participants will be exposed to fundamental elements and models of organizational behaviour as well as research methods applied in studying Organizational Psychology. Participants will also be involved in a comparative analysis of effective leadership approaches and methodological considerations in Leadership research. These knowledge and skills will enable participants to build their capacities in integrative thinking, managing diversity, team building and managing effective teams, and negotiating and influencing skills which are essential skills in leading organizations in the global business environment.
Learning Outcomes
LO1: To understand the fundamental elements and models of organizational behaviour and influence of individual factors in organizational behaviour.
LO2: To analyse effective leadership approaches and their application in leading successful organizations
LO3: Discuss methodological approaches used in Leadership research.
LO4: To analyse and conceptualize quantitative and qualitative research methods used in organizational psychology.
Module Description
This course will enable participants to develop data-driven business leadership skills required in a complex knowledge based global business environment. Participants will be introduced to the world of data analytics, with a focus on descriptive, diagnostic, predictive & prescriptive Analytics, Machine Learning & Optimization, Data Visualization, and decision making and leading with data. Participants will also be led to understand application of data analytics in the knowledge economy and disruptive technology as contemporary domains which influence business operations in the global stage.
Learning Outcomes
LO1: To understand descriptive and inferential statistics and application of statistics in business research and decision making.
LO2: To understand Machine Learning algorithms and Optimization concepts including supervised and unsupervised machine learning concepts with regression and classification techniques.
LO3: To explore the concept of data Mining and challenges associated with application of big data analytics in Business.
LO4: Understand the application of data analytics in leading contemporary business domains including Knowledge based economy and disruptive technology.
Module Description
This course will help build participants understanding role of research to develop new products, process, and technologies that also emphasis on the promotion of the natural resources. The course will entail enhancing learner’s perspective in need for integration of sustainable innovation. The course will enhance the leadership ability of the learner to understand sustainable business model innovation. Learners understand to communicate and manage stakeholders to drive the need for sustainability competitive advantage. The learner will evaluate and critically understand the need to be a catalyst to induce and efficiently incorporate and address global issues. This course will ensure the learner to understand the critical role of being purpose driven Leader. Learners will understand the step by process to maintain a sustainable business. The course highlights the role of advance theories in sustainability and focuses on the research on the use of sustainable design to protect the environment (increasing the focus on thermal comfort along with helping to reduce energy consumption and using recycle materials).
Learning Outcomes
LO1: To understand and evaluate research on innovation and sustainability and to enhance research for sustainable business solutions.
LO2: To explore and understand models of Innovation and Sustainability in business and explore design thinking to improve sustainable innovation research.
LO3: To analyse research sustainability perspectives with green design and design science approach in the field of innovation.
This course will enable learners to understand and apply elements of Action Research in the domain of operations. Students are expected to apply theoretical and data-driven approaches to add to the existing body of knowledge in Operations management. Through an initial operational understanding of the practice system within projects and processes, while controlling the standard quality linked at every stage, students gradually are trained to evaluate strategic issues of designing operational systems that yield optimized results. The research supervisors welcome a wide variety of operational domains that deserves to be improved through the application and cyclical nature of Action Research.
Active Research Areas: service management, healthcare management, retail operations, logistics, supply-chain management, sustainability, stochastic control of processing networks, revenue management, not-for-profit operations, and contracting and economic-mechanism design.
Learning Outcomes
LO1: To understand and apply the steps of Action Research in the domain of operations management .
LO2: To analyse and evaluate research-based practice systems within the supply chain of manufacturing and service firms.
LO3: To critically evaluate an action plan with control checks that focuses on improving the quality of the existing systems.
LO4: To critically evaluate the different methods of operations research with an aim to create efficient and effective operational channels.
Module Description
The participants in this course will develop a word research proposal in a subject specific to leadership and business management. The participants will be guided to identify a researchable knowledge gap of their interest and analyse and synthesize the knowledge gap into a problem statement. Participants will receive guidance on specific aspects of doing research including literature searching and conducting critical appraisal; referencing and application of relevant computer software in reference management; framing research questions and research objectives; and application of ethical issues in Research. Participants will be capacity build to develop competence in assessing and appraising evidence in published literature, determining the gaps in the evidence and developing a feasible and valid study design that they can apply in their research. Participants will further be guided to develop a full research proposal.
Learning Outcomes
LO1: Identifying a relevant and suitable knowledge gap in Leadership and business Management and develop structured research questions to address the knowledge gap.
LO2: Write a literature review to identify existing evidence and knowledge gaps associated with the research problem of interest.
LO3: Develop a well-structured research protocol/proposal with clear timelines and relevant study methods that comply with the universal principles research ethics principles.
Founded in the year 1996, UCAM is a fully accredited European University with a clear mission: to provide students with the knowledge and skills to serve society, to contribute to the further expansion of human knowledge through research and development. UCAM empowers students to develop their own real-world skills. The campus’ top class infrastructure, its labs and studios, allied with practical learning components will prepare students to put their acquired knowledge into action. UCAM is a private Catholic university with 20 years of history and more than 16,000 students and around 1,000 professors, offering 32 prominent European official Bachelor’s, 87 Master’s and 8 doctorate lines of research amongst other prestigious title. UCAM is accredited by ANECA (National Agency for Quality Assessment and Accreditation of Spain) The Global Student Satisfaction Awards which empowers students across the globe to determine the best universities of 2021 rated UCAM with a score above 4.4 (out of 5). University bettered itself by 500 ranks in research among higher education centres world over, as per Times Higher Education world rankings, 2022.
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