Courses Master Display 2020-2021

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Course title Performance Management and Strategy Execution
Course code EBC4154
ECTS credits 6,5
Assessment Whole/Half Grades
Period
Period Start End Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri
2 26-10-2020 11-12-2020 X X
5 12-4-2021 28-5-2021 X X
Level Intermediate/Advanced
Coordinator Frank Moers
For more information: f.moers@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Language of instruction English
Goals
After you have finished this course, you will have a good understanding of at least three themes. First, you will be able to understand and discuss the meaning and importance of management control as a basic part of managerial activity. Second, you will be able to understand and assess the interaction between control problems and organisational arrangements, such as performance measurement and incentives. Third, you will have obtained skills to adequately address control problems in actual practice, which includes data analytics.
Graduates have profound, evidence-based and up-to-date academic knowledge and understanding of theories, methods and tools in business/economics. This includes demonstrating the ability to develop new ideas.
Graduates can apply their profound knowledge and understanding to identify and solve also unstructured or semi-structured real life business/economic problems in unfamiliar environments within broader multidisciplinary contexts. This includes demonstrating analytical skills, data analysis skills and a problem-solving attitude.
Description
PLEASE NOTE THAT THE INFORMATION ABOUT THE TEACHING AND ASSESSMENT METHOD(S) USED IN THIS COURSE IS WITH RESERVATION. THE INFORMATION PROVIDED HERE IS BASED ON THE COURSE SETUP PRIOR TO THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS. AS A CONSEQUENCE OF THE CRISIS, COURSE COORDINATORS MAY BE FORCED TO CHANGE THE TEACHING AND ASSESSMENT METHODS USED. THE MOST UP-TO-DATE INFORMATION ABOUT THE TEACHING/ASSESSMENT METHOD(S) WILL BE AVAILABLE IN THE COURSE SYLLABUS. PLEASE NOTE THAT THE INFORMATION ABOUT THE TEACHING AND ASSESSMENT METHOD(S) USED IN THIS COURSE IS WITH RESERVATION. THE INFORMATION PROVIDED HERE IS BASED ON THE COURSE SETUP PRIOR TO THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS. AS A CONSEQUENCE OF THE CRISIS, COURSE COORDINATORS MAY BE FORCED TO CHANGE THE TEACHING AND ASSESSMENT METHODS USED. THE MOST UP-TO-DATE INFORMATION ABOUT THE TEACHING/ASSESSMENT METHOD(S) WILL BE AVAILABLE IN THE COURSE SYLLABUS.

The central question of this course is: ‘How do managers control the parts of the organisation they are responsible for?’ In other words, we are interested in how managers make sure that organisational participants behave and perform in line with the organisation's objectives. Management Control is an essential managerial task. In this course we will deal with the following questions: What control problems do we observe in practice? In what way can these control problems be solved? What are the effects of management control systems? How can we design and implement adequate management control systems?
Literature
Merchant, K.A. and Van der Stede, W.A., Management Control Systems: Performance Measurement, Evaluation and Incentives, Prentice Hall, 3rd edition, 2012.
Prerequisites
Repeat or double specialisation students (that started their first specialisation prior to September 2020) who want to follow this course in period 5 have to request a course registration through Ask SBE. This course is not open to students that started their programme in September 2020 or later.

2nd year courses Finance & Accounting (EBC2007) and Management of organisations (EBC2008) or 2nd year courses Accounting II (EBC2002) and Managerial economics (EBC2023).
Intermediate level knowledge on the subject fields of Accounting, Organisational studies or Finance.
Teaching methods (indicative; course manual is definitive) PBL / Presentation / Groupwork
Assessment methods (indicative; course manual is definitive) Participation / Written Exam
Evaluation in previous academic year For the complete evaluation of this course please click "here"
This course belongs to the following programmes / specialisations
Master Business Research - No specialisation Year 1 Disc - IB Accountancy
Master Business Research - No specialisation Year 1 Disc - IB Accounting and Control
Master Business Research - No specialisation Year 1 Disc - IB Controlling
Master Business Research - No specialisation Year 1 Disc - IB Mng. Decision-Making and Control
Master Business Research - Operations Research Year 1 Elective Course(s)
Master Business Research - Operations Research Year 2 Elective Course(s)
Master Fiscal Economics Economics Elective(s)
Master Human Decision Science Elective Course(s)
Master International Business - Accounting and Business Information Technology Elective Course(s)
Master International Business - Entrepreneurship and Business Development Elective Course(s)
Master International Business - Managerial Decision-Making and Control Compulsory Course(s)
Master International Business - Accounting & Control (parttime/NL) Compulsory Course(s)
Master International Business - Information Management and Business Intelligence Elective Course(s)
Master International Business - Marketing-Finance Elective Course(s)
Master International Business - Organisation: Management, Change and Consultancy Elective Course(s)
Master International Business - Strategic Corporate Finance Elective Course(s)
Master International Business - Strategic Marketing Elective Course(s)
Master International Business - Strategy and Innovation Elective Course(s)
Master International Business - Supply Chain Management Elective Course(s)
Master International Business - Sustainable Finance Elective Course(s)