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Professional Diploma in Management
Professional Certificate in Management
3 month stand-alone Certificate courses
Master of Business Administration (MBA)
Stage 1
Title: Fundamentals of Senior Management (B713)
The course is divided into four blocks: on the context of management; the practice of management; improving performance; and managing projects and change.
Next course: Nov 04-Oct 05
Stage 2 Compulsory
Title: Strategy (B820)
This compulsory course helps you to develop a better understanding of what business strategy entails, both theoretically and in practice.
Next course: Nov 04-Apr 05
Title: Making a Difference (B830)
A new compulsory course offering graduate-level students joining the MBA at Stage One increased flexibility which allows completion of the MBA in 2.5 years.
Next course: May 05-Oct 05
Stage 2 Course Options (of which 2 must be chosen)
Title: Financial Strategy (B821)
By the end of the course you should have a grasp of the fundamentals of financial analysis and financial theory and know how to tackle the main financial problems you are likely to encounter at work.
Next course: Nov 04-Apr 05
Title: Creativity, Innovation and Change (B822)
It will enable you to understand how perception, style and culture affect thought and action, and give you a grasp of the principles underlying creative thinking and problem-solving.
Next course: Nov 04-Apr 05
Title: Managing Knowledge (B823)
This takes a broad view covering communications, sense-making, information management, measurement of intellectual capital, intellectual property, intangible assets, learning, knowledge creation and innovation, human resources for innovation, and building knowledge management capability.
Next course: Nov 04-Apr 05
Title: Managing Human Resources (B824)
It takes a strategic view of resourcing the organisation (through such policies as recruitment, job design, flexible contracting and business process re-engineering), managing performance (through innovative reward and recognition strategies) and increasing organisational capability (through training and development).
Next course: Nov 04-Apr 05
Title: Marketing in a Complex World (B825)
The course expands into a broad discussion of complexity theory and its application to marketing strategy. We discuss external change drivers, with units on economics and scenario planning, and deal with advanced marketing concepts and techniques, emphasising relationship marketing and brand strategy and management.
Next course: May 05-Oct 05
Professional Diploma in Management
Title: Managing Performance and Change (B700)
This course equips managers with tools and techniques to improve performance in teams, departments, projects or small organisations.
Next course: Nov 04-Oct 05
Professional Certificate in Management
Title: The Professional Certificate in Management (B615)
This course helps new, general or middle managers to work more effectively with foundation management models and techniques (NVQ Level 4).
Next course: Nov 04-Oct 05
3 month stand-alone Certificate courses
Title: Managing (BZX641)
It shows you how you can continually develop your managerial competence, enabling you to use fundamental management processes and techniques.
Next course: Nov 04-Apr 05
Title: Managing People (BZX642)
The course begins with entry to the organisation - designing jobs appropriately, recruitment and induction - and goes on to working with people in teams, in meetings, in situations of conflict, or across boundaries within and beyond your organisation.
Next course: Aug 04-Jan 05
Title: Managing Finance and Information (BZX643)
This course enables you to identify, interpret and use financial information more effectively.
Next course: Nov 04-Apr 05
Title: Managing Customers and Quality (BZX644)
A course about the difference that managers can make - the value they can add - to what their organisations deliver to their customers.
Next course: Aug 04-Jan 05
Title: The Management Challenge (BXR635)
This residential school course is a two-day event that develops core interpersonal management skills - teamwork and negotiation - through a series of structured group activities.
Next course: Jun 04, Sep 04, Nov 04
Title: The Management Challenge (BXR636)
This three-week online course develops core interpersonal management skills - teamwork and negotiation - through computer communication.
Next course: Jun 04, Jul 04, Oct 04
To complete the Certificate via this modular route, you will also need to take a planned 60-point revision pack and examination module (BZX646) available from 2005.
This degree is designed to develop knowledge and skills that are highly valued by employers. These include the ability to absorb and evaluate complex information quickly, together with presentation, communication and IT skills. The BA (Hons) Business Studies programme makes sense if you want to be equipped for the next career challenge. It gives you the knowledge to make a more informed choice and a first rate degree recognised by employers.
Next course: Nov 2004