MBE Projects
As part of the MBE degree students undertake a research project. Recent research topics related to the MBE degree stream include:
- A framework for organizational learning application
- A recommendation for developing Corporate Environmental Responsibility in the passenger transportation industry in Hong Kong
- An investigation into improving a SME's competitiveness: Managing environmental knowledge
- An investigation into the application of knowledge management in the journey to excellence.
- An investigation into the extent to which current approaches to developing leaders prepares them for leadership roles and responsibilities advocated by the European Excellence Model.
- An investigation into the links between Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and the European Excellence Model
- Application of Excellence Models in Chinese Engineering Enterprises
- Application of ISO 9001 within the business context
- Application of the Excellence Model to SMEs
- Application of the practices and principles of excellence to a major engineering enterprise process
- A study of barriers that prevent Chinese middle managers achieving business excellence: Barriers of mindset and practice
- A study of the excellence model in the SME context
- A study of leadership improvement in Chinese engineering enterprises by adapting the EFQM model
- Barriers to and prerequisites for implementing the EFQM model in SMEs in Northern China
- Business excellence through the implementation of renewable energy and energy efficiency initiatives: Conceptual model for SMEs
- Creation of a brand extension decision model to support companies in reducing the likelihood of extension failure and contributing towards the journey of achieving excellence
- Creating a suitable improvement and learning model to achieve fundamental improvement in the Construction industry
- Creating an excellent community of practice
- Design for six sigma and new product introduction
- Developing A Self Assessment Tool To Audit Knowledge
- Developing A Tool To Audit Organizational Learning From Six Sigma Projects
- Developing employee engagement strategies to improve organizational performance for multinational companies in service and production industry
- Driving competitiveness to Colombian companies through excellence: An analysis based on the impact of the US-Colombia Free Trade Agreement
- Effective use of DFSS for NPI
- EFQM and e-Business
- EFQM Excellence Model and SMEs
- Engineering process excellence
- Environmental risk management: Myth or reality?
- Evaluating product reliability
- Excellence in Chinese enterprises
- How can the European Excellence Model be used to guide the improvement of technology application in an engineering business?
- How will Nigerian businesses under pressure of corruption, identify their level of capacity with respect to excellence and formulate plans for improvement?
- Initiating organizational change
- Investigation into employee motivation within Chinese HRM - Practical evidence from Littleswan Company
- Investigation into the impact of job satisfaction and organizational commitment on employee turnover intentions: Practical evidence from case studies of Chinese enterprises
- Leading out of complacency: Transforming complacent organizations
- Lean six sigma
- Lean thinking in the supply chain
- Lean transformation
- Learning during the New Product Introduction (NPI) Process: An investigation into the experience of organisations' six sigma projects
- Overcoming barriers in organizational learning: An academic approach
- Review any barriers to the implementation of six sigma in China
- Robust design - A new way of thinking within the Automotive sector
- Measuring learning
- Six sigma and lean
- The application of the EFQM Excellence model in a small engineering business
- The cultural impacts on Chinese leaders to achieve excellent leadership
- The development of a tool for the diagnosis and improvement of an organization's Corporate Social Responsibility response
- The elimination of barriers to growth for SMEs in the manufacturing sector
- The possible barriers to and pre-requisites for implementing the EFQM model in Northern China SMEs
- The potential contribution of organizational learning principles to the success of six sigma programmes
- The relationship between continuous improvement and organisational agility
- The role of quality tools in knowledge generation, capture and application in the decision making processes within the New Product Introduction process
- The use of quality tools in an E-business context
- To propose an implementation plan for using the EFQM excellence model in a Chinese manufacturing POE (private-owned-enterprise)
- Total stakeholding: Leading stakeholder networks to sustainable success