Diploma in Management Studies 1 year/17 weeks intensive

Course Content

Principles of Management: The Principles of Management module aims to provide students with an introduction to the complexities of modern management. This module explores key areas in modern management and allows students to develop an understanding of the management environment and organisational structure and culture.

Information Technology Applications: This module will equip learners with practical digital skills. Learners will gain an understanding of key technologies in the workplace. Learners will build practical skills in databases, spreadsheets and data analysis and presentation. Learners will also contextualise the role that computer technologies have played in facilitating the evolution and development of business systems, and the legal and ethical issues that have emerged through this process.

Human Resource Management: This module will provide the student an insight into HRM and the role HRM plays in an organisation. This module will appeal to someone new to leadership or to build on existing knowledge and skills and learn how to coach and mentor staff. The module presents current trends in the field and provides the students with the foundational tools for Human Resource Management.

Contemporary Management Practice: The Strategic Principles of Management module aims to provide students with both academic knowledge and practical management skills. This module explores key areas in modern management and allows students to develop key competencies required of a modern professional manager.

Organisational Communications: This module aims at providing students with the skills and techniques to communicate effectively. It introduces communication strategies for specific contexts, focusing on the use of different styles depending on the medium and the public. It is a highly practical module that provides the learners with both oral and written communication skills relevant in any type of business.

Financial Management principles: Through this module student will learn the basic financial and management principles in use in the modern organisation and understand the construction and use of both financial and management accounting techniques adopted.