This is a research-based programme geared towards providing managers with specialist expertise in the field of business leadership in order to facilitate and promote decision-making of the highest standard, the continual development of a high level of cognitive knowledge, skills and attitudes and excellent managerial development in various organizations. The programme will ultimately provide the current research to contribute towards the development and understanding of a specific field of interest in general management to enhance business leadership skills. The PhD degree will offer an opportunity to interface business industry and address challenges in industrial development in the prevailing national, regional and global environments. It will further provide an opportunity to practising managers to investigate the ongoing practices in their organisations and develop new contextual theories, or theories that will compliment those built around the practices of the organisations in more developed markets.