Entrepreneurship

The module is designed to enable potential managers to review the creation of financial statements (accounting cycle) and then learn about users and providers of management accounting information. Learners also learn internal accounting terms and procedures; use of accounting data in planning, control and performance evaluation; assumptions and limitations of conventional accounting measurements.

The module is designed to equip learners with the abilities and skills to adapt and manage an increasingly diverse human resource, and in a competitive business environment. The areas include diversity management; job analysis and job design; human resource planning; and recruiting, screening and selection of candidates; interviewing candidates; orientation, training and development; compensation, incentives and benefits; evaluating and appraising employee performance; and organizational culture and cross-cultural issues.

The module is designed to present the nature and purpose of strategic management from local and global perspectives, strategic management models, strategy formulation, external environmental analysis, internal environmental analysis and evaluation, competing in the global marketplace, strategy implementation, strategy monitoring through balanced scorecards, issues related to the organization’s functional areas in relation to the corporate business strategy, strategy review, evaluation and control, as well as corporate social responsibilities of companies that implement an integrative corporate strategy.

The module is designed to provide the learners with the fundamental principles, theories and model applications of how to plan and manage projects to achieve organisational goals and objectives regardless of business or industry. It studies the underpinning knowledge of project management as well as an understanding of tools, techniques and methods to effectively initiate, plan, execute, monitor, control and close projects. It covers what it takes to be a high-performance project management team to be able to effectively communicate with and to achieve the expectations of stakeholders.

This module is designed to provide an overview of the importance of quality and its many realizations in the firm’s programs and project areas. This module recognises the responsibility of the project manager to ensure projects meet expectations on quality. It therefore requires an ideal working definition of quality and its management. It introduces the learners to the philosophy and principles of TQM in general as well as to provide them with the underlying principles and techniques with an emphasis on their application to the organizations’ projects. The module also covers discussions on distinguishing quality planning, assurance and control. Cost of quality and cost classifications as well as the tools of quality are included in this study. Offhand, Six Sigma’s place is also defined in this course.