Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 1:
A comprehensive and systematic knowledge base of the relevant concepts and theories of the chosen area(s) of specialisation is demonstrated.
All concepts and theory are integrated to develop sustainable functional and strategic recommendations based on the area of specialisation.
The consequences are understood and recommendations are disseminated.

Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 2:
Appropriate and creative investigative methods, techniques, processes or technologies from a variety of business and management disciplines are designed, selected and applied to complex practical and theoretical business and management problems.
Interventions at a strategic level within a system is made, based on an understanding of the hierarchical relations within the system.
A wide range of business and management skills and knowledge in identifying, conceptualising, designing and implementing methods of enquiry to address complex and challenging business and management problems are used.

Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 3:
The concepts and theories of corporate sustainability to develop ethical and sustainable business decisions and recommendations are integrated.
The ethicality and sustainability of the business decisions or recommendations generated is understood.
Autonomous ethical decisions which affect complex organisational or professional issues are made.

Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 4:
Advanced skills in information retrieval and processing of both qualitative and quantitative data are applied.
Various business research methods are reviewed, applied, and critiqued.
A research proposal for either a technical project or a single research or mini-dissertation is developed and presented.

Integrated Assessment:
All assessments will be conducted in line with the principles of assessment as defined in the Institution’s Assessment Policy. In the Master of Business Leadership (MBL), assessment will comprise a combination of group and individual assessment.

Learners will be required to integrate knowledge and skills learnt in order to produce specified results and to apply their knowledge and skills in a complex environment. Furthermore, on being given an authentic scenario and case study, learners must demonstrate the ability to engage effectively in business leadership issues in an integrative way, dealing with divergent and “random” demands related to the operations of the business world. Ultimately, the aim of the assessment design is to give meaning to the qualifications as a whole and permit demonstration of competencies at an advanced level through application, problem solving, analysis and synthesis.

The submission of a range of formative assessments (both group and individual) in each module will be required as a means to assess learning and to provide feedback to learners. Formative assessments will contribute towards a year mark, which will contribute 50% of the final mark in most modules.

With the exception of the Strategic Leadership Project, which requires a research report, all modules will require an individual venue-based summative assessment. Alternatively, a portfolio assessment may be conducted where appropriate. The mark obtained in the summative assessment will contribute 50% to the final mark.