Course Title: Administration and Control
This course will highlight human relations principles and techniques in modern-day examples and comment on their appropriateness, particularly in relation to managerial control.
Course Topics
Unit 1 - Control and the Art of Management
Unit 2 - Scientific Management
Unit 3 - Principles of Administration
Unit 4 - Human Relations
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Course Title: Business Finance
Business Finance deals with the raising and managing of funds. Fund management activities require financial forecasting. This forecasting allows the organization to develop long term strategic plans for the organization. Short-term budgets can then devised to meet the organization’s strategic goals. This course is suitable for anybody who is interested in the financial aspects of an organization and covers a broad range of relevant financial and managerial issues.
Course Topics
Unit 1 – Cost and Management Accounting
Unit 2 – Budgetary Control
Unit 3 – Introduction to Accounting
Unit 4 – Working Capital Management
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Course Title: Business Management
Business Management can be defined as the process of leading and directing all or part of an organization, Management and Leadership are vital to organizational success in today's challenging global environment. It is the role of management to conceive and initiate strategies that create and sustain competitive differentiation and advantage. This course has been designed to take you through the key concepts that underpin good management and ensure that you have the requisite knowledge to promote organizational success.
Course Topics
Unit 1 – Managing and Leadership
Unit 2 – Performance at Work
Unit 3 – Working, Planning and Organization
Unit 4 – Motivating the Workforce
Unit 5 – Human Resource Management
Unit 6 – Business Strategies
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Course Title: E-Business Management
This course aims to provide insight how e-business operates. It examines how e-business evolved, the technologies and business models that drive it, the threat it poses to traditional business models, and how to develop a fuller understanding of e-business opportunities.
Course Topics
Unit 1 - Introduction to E-Business
Unit 2 - E-business - Applications, Models and Technologies
Unit 3 - E-Business and the Consumer
Unit 4 - mpact of E-Business on Business Processes
Unit 5 - E-business in the Service Sector
Unit 6 - Legal, Fiscal and Ethical Issues of E-Business
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Course Title: Events Management
The Event Management course is designed to enterprise the participant towards the management of associations, clubs, special interest groups, political, government, sports, hotel convention planning, and much more. Event Management is a course that offers a very special opportunity; it is the opportunity of coupling one of your life's greatest joys with a career.
Course Topics
Unit 1 – Getting to know your employees
Unit 2 – Planning in Event Management
Unit 3 – Human Relations
Unit 4 – Catering and Food Services
Unit 5 – Marketing
Unit 6 – Fund Raising
Unit 7 – A Career in the field of Event Management
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Course Title: Human Resource Management
Human resource management (HRM) describes the range of strategies to achieve competitive advantage by matching the needs of the business to satisfy the customer with the reasonable aspirations and potential of the people employed in and by the business. As part of this process, businesses frequently restructure, review their managerial processes and redefine their value systems.
Course Topics
Unit 1 – Human Resource Strategy and Organization
Unit 2 – Management, Unions and Employees
Unit 3 – The Labour Market and Human Resource Planning
Unit 4 – Contracts of Employment, Recruitment and Selection
Unit 5 – Grievance, Discipline and Dismissal
Unit 6 – Reward
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Course Title: International Business Strategy
The course is designed for all those intending a business career and for those with an interest in how contemporary organizations operate. Business strategy is not simply the province and responsibility of senior level management decision makers. The ideas which underpin International Business Strategy can be applied at many levels in the business organization to help ensure that individual business units or departments maintain an effective contribution to the overall success of the business.
Course Topics
Unit 1 - Internal Analysis – An Integrated Approach
Unit 2 - Organizational Structure and Strategic Control Systems
Unit 3 - Corporate Strategies
Unit 4 - The Global Dimension of Strategic Management
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Course Title: Information Technology Management
This course is structured to lead you through the different areas of the subject of Information Technology. Also designed for Students wishing to work towards IT or for a variety of vocational IT exams. It will also suit anyone interested in extending their knowledge of computers and their use in society.
Course Topics
Unit 1 - Information Systems
Unit 2 - Data Collection and Validation
Unit 3 - Data Storage and Security
Unit 4 - Data Processing and Output
Unit 5 - The Operating Environment
Unit 6 - Applications Software
Unit 7 - Information Systems in Society
Unit 8 - Project Work
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Course Title: Logistics
In this course we examine logistics. Logistics is concerned with managing the flow of materials through an organization to the customer. Increasingly, organizations are looking at their products or services as part of a chain or network. They are looking at what they produce and trying to optimize the value of all the inputs from all sources – that is, all the suppliers in the chain of supply. This is called supply chain management.
This closer linking between customer and supplier organizations obviously needs much closer integration, and organizations are sharing much more information to achieve this. This involves utilizing information technology for sharing data about stock levels, demand and trends. These initiatives use technology such as EPOS (electronic point of sale equipment), EDI (electronic data interchange), scanning and bar-coding.
Course Topics
Unit 1 – What is Logistics?
Unit 2 – Logistics in Practice: a Factory Visit
Unit 3 – Controlling Supply: Materials Planning and Control
Unit 4 – Supply Chain Management and Distribution Systems
Unit 5 – Strategy, Performance and Key Measures
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Course Title: Management Accounting
Accounting has become an essential part of business life, and the knowledge and skills that you will learn in your studies will give you a broader and more experienced view of business life.
Course Topics
Unit 1 – Introduction
Unit 2 – About Budgets
Unit 3 – Cash Flow Forecasts - The Cash Budget
Unit 4 – Managing Your Cash
Unit 5 – Planning For Profit - The Trading Budget
Unit 6 – Planning For Profit - The Profit and Loss Budget
Unit 7 – Key Management Reports
Unit 8 – Manual Accounting Records
Unit 9 – Computerized Accounting Records
Unit 10 – Breakeven Analysis
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Course Title: Marketing Management
The value of the area of study which is called Marketing or Market Management is widely recognized in the modern world of business. This course will provide you with the skills and knowledge, to both understand the marketing concept and how to implement a marketing plan.
Course Topics
Unit 1 – Introduction to Marketing Process
Unit 2 – The Marketing Environment
Unit 3 – Market Segmentation and Targeting
Unit 4 – Marketing Research
Unit 5 – Product Life-cycle
Unit 6 – Distribution
Unit 7 – The Nature of Strategic Planning
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Course Title: Marketing Strategy
This course will provide you with a toolbox of ideas and methods to help you make sense of your organization’s complexity. Through the six study units we build the basic principles and provide comprehensive coverage of the main theories of marketing set in the context of modern business practice.
You will learn how to understand your customers’ needs; how to focus scarce resources most effectively though marketing segmentation and targeting; brand building through the right marketing mix; as well as the development and implementation of marketing plans.
Course Topics
Unit 1 - Introduction to Marketing
Unit 2 - Understanding the Market
Unit 3 - Product and Services Management
Unit 4 - Pricing and Distribution Management
Unit 5 - Promotion Management
Unit 6 - Marketing Planning
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Course Title: Office Management
Like it or not, every manager has to organize his or her work place. It may involve organizing one department or the entire business. We organize to develop good work habits. When organizing we take a realistic look at the future, then try to accurately forecast problems, determine alternative strategies to these problems and then finally evaluate available resources. This course will help you to understand the functions and procedures of the office within any business.
Course Topics
Unit 1 – Introduction to Office Procedures
Unit 2 – Communication Systems
Unit 3 – Writing Letters and Reports
Unit 4 – Computers
Unit 5 – Office Materials and Equipment
Unit 6 – Office Organization and Procedures
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Course Title: Project Management
Project management involves a number of interrelated activities which are needed to achieve a specific goal or set of objectives. Unlike most Project Management courses, this course introduces you to the field of project management in a unique self-paced and practical format. This course presumes that you have no prior knowledge of managerial or technical subjects and will guide you, step-by-step, on your project journey.
Course Topics
Unit 1 – The project life-cycle
Unit 2 – Planning and quality events
Unit 3 – Gantt and Pert charts
Unit 4 – Implementing a project
Unit 5 – Evaluating performance
Unit 6 – Good leadership
Unit 7 – Managing conflict
Unit 8 – Feasibility studies
Unit 9 – Control chart
Unit 10 – Delegating responsibilities
Unit 11 – Budget control chart
Unit 12– Appraising a project
Unit 13– Strategy framework
Unit 14– Negotiation skills
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Course Title: Purchasing and Materials Handling
This course covers the purchasing function of all activities which deal with the provision of requirements to an organization. Learning the skills needed to ensure that purchases made on behalf of your company or as the purchasing manager requires specific skills and knowledge.
Course Topics
Unit 1 – The Need for Purchasing
Unit 2 – The Concept of Quality
Unit 3 – Price Determination as a Purchasing Activity
Unit 4 – The Scope of the Stores Department
Unit 5 – Sitting a Store or Stockyard
Unit 6 – Layout of Buildings
Unit 7 – Stock Records
Unit 8 – Financial Control of Stock
Unit 9 – Materials Flow Activities
Unit 10 – International Purchasing
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Course Title: Retail Management
Retail businesses vary in size from a small one-man operation to large international organizations. This course is the ideal tool for students wanting to gain knowledge in the field of retail management, whether it is for the purpose of entering the retail trade through the establishment of a small business, or wanting to gain knowledge to allow for further study in the fields of management to enter a retail organization at a higher level.
Course Topics
Unit 1 – Retailing
Unit 2 – Classifications of retailers
Unit 3 – Population trends
Unit 4 – Store layout and image
Unit 5 – Ordering and the receiving function
Unit 6 – Security
Unit 7 – Merchandising
Unit 8 – Housekeeping
Unit 9 – Customer relations & buying behavior of customers
Unit 10 – Stocktaking
Unit 11– Staff
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Course Title: Stores Management
The day-to-day management of the stores department is a critical factor in the successful management within any business. Stock represents a large percentage of the working capital in many organizations. Minimizing loss or damage makes a significant contribution to the overall profitability of the business - and is a key part of the stores function. This course will teach you the methodologies, principles and practices of good stores management to build your knowledge of this appealing subject.
Course Topics
Unit 1 – Introduction
Unit 2 – Stores Systems and Procedure
Unit 3 – Sitting a Stores or Stockyard
Unit 4 – Layout of Buildings
Unit 5 – Stock Records
Unit 6 – Financial Control of Stock
Unit 7 – The Relationships between Production, Construction and Service
Unit 8 – Location of Stock
Unit 9 – Costing
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Course Title: Transport Management
Transport must rank almost as high as the weather as a topic of conversation. However, few critics are well informed of the exact location and division of responsibility for the transport system; even fewer really appreciate the nature of the problems involved in devising a rational transport system. This course will teach you the skills to recognize these problems and enable you to operate a successful transport management team.
Course Topics
Unit 1 – Public Policy
Unit 2 – Qualities of efficient transport services
Unit 3 – Economics of road transport
Unit 4 – The railways
Unit 5 – Air transport
Unit 6 – Water Transport
Unit 7 – Acts and Regulations
Unit 8 – Carriers and non-carriers
Unit 9 – Cost of transport
Unit 10 – Differential pricing
Unit 11– Competition
Unit 12– Principles of regulation
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