Advanced Diploma in Business Management

Introduction

This program, Advanced Diploma in Business Management, covers the theoretical issues of business management and offers many practical skills useful to potential employers.

The Advanced Diploma in Business Management can be completed in 9 months on a full-time basis. Part-time students can complete the course in 12 months.

Awarding Body

  • School D'Hospitality

Diploma Awarded

  • Advanced Diploma in Business Management

Entry Requirements

  • Minimum Age: 17
  • Academic Level: Diploma awarded by School D'Hospitality, Higher Nitec Holders, Diploma from recognised institutions or its equivalent
  • Language Proficiency: IELTS 5.5 or its equivalent
  • Work Experience (If applicable): NIL
  • Internal Assessments: Written Exams, Assignment / Projects, Practical Exams

Assessment Methods

  • Written Assignments, Examinations plus Project / Industrial Attachment (Optional) 

Graduation Requirements

  • Obtained a pass in all modules
  • Complete and pass the Industrial Attachment if the student opt-in for an industrial attachment. 

Duration

  • Full-time: 9 months
  • Part-time: 12 months
  • Industrial Attachment (Optional): 6 months

Next available intake(s)

  • The intake for this program is every two (2) months (January, March, May, July, September, November)

Course Modules

 
Managerial Accounting
Principles of Business Law
Corporate Strategy and Planning
Managing in Organisations
Strategic Marketing Management
Strategic Human Resource Management for Business Organisation
International Business Case Study

 

Course Synopsis

1. Managerial Accounting

The module introduces the costs and management accounting concepts to help students better understand management accounting topics, research and issues from the perspective of a business manager using extensive classroom discussions, case analysis and relevant mathematical calculations. It springboards from the fundamentals taken up in financial accounting. Students upon completion will be able to understand and interpret financial statement, use financial tools to do forecasting and budgeting and help in evaluating investment decision and drives value in organisations.

2. Principles of Business Law

The module presents Business Law as an evolving outgrowth of its environment and the legal environment itself. It hopes to provide a fundamental understanding of legal concepts and principles as they apply in organisations and business. It also emphasises on online law and e-commerce as key parts of the legal system. In addition, it covers social, ethical and international issues that are important to the study, observance, and practice of business law. Actual as well as hypothetical case studies that display legal violations and issues are used in order to bring out the important legal principles based various levels and types of laws, such as the common law, statutes or state and national laws. Emphasis is placed on providing specific guidance for students to ask questions and go beyond rote memorisation.

3. Corporate Strategy and Planning

This module offers insights into effective strategic management and planning at the top management level. It identifies covers a study of global companies and the unique strategies they are using in order to compete in an environment that requires no less than steady success if only to gain the trust and confidence of stakeholders. Studies have shown a positive relationship between corporate strategy and a company’s performance. This solidifies the reality that organisations with employ strategic management concepts and techniques do have higher levels of business achievement. In support of this ideal, this module aims to provide the students with a comprehensive understanding of strategic planning concepts and principles as they apply in organisations of all types and sizes.

4. Managing in Organisations

This module teaches students on understanding the key factors in designing an organisation and also the reasons why organisations have adopted their current form to provide effectiveness in light of external/internal pressures. Learning outcomes here includes the understanding of the nature, role and significance of management activities in a range of organisational types. It touches on corporate leadership roles that provide the general direction to the organisation as it competes in the market place. Case studies will be included among the few other methodologies of developing critical analysis skills. Students will be expected to make relevant and practical recommendations for companies under study. In these next steps, involvement of management and staff in the corporate structure will be given emphasis.

5. Strategic Marketing Management

Students will understand the broad concepts of marketing strategy and planning. The module allows students to analyse the processes of strategy development and marketing planning, and apply the core concepts and techniques for operating marketing strategy, and the elements of the marketing mix. From the students’ knowledge of basic marketing principles, they will be required to critically analyse and discuss cases of business entities and make necessary recommendations that are expected to go beyond operational and functional levels. This course emphasises on the students’ development of sensitivity to practical but effective evaluation skills at the top management level.

6. Strategic Human Resource Management for Business Organisation

This module aims for students to be able to critically evaluate the strategic approach to human resource management and describe the benefits of designing and implementing a human resource strategy. It is necessary that top level managers are able to evaluate and explain the necessity for alignment between an organisation’s corporate strategy (and its higher order purposes, reflected in its vision, mission, values and goals) and its human resource strategy. As such, it is another aim of this course for students to be able to do just that. Moreover, students are expected to be able to design human resource strategies that may be related to the current and expected requirements of organisations confronting a range of contingencies; evaluate strategies for people training, learning and development which maximise the skills and contribution of people; and critically evaluate strategies for people reward which bring added-value benefits to the organisation in excess of their costs.

7. International Business Case Study

This course aims for the students to understand the key challenges facing international business and global operators and to examine what is meant by and the key drivers of globalisation and its implications for regions, countries, markets and customers. It critically evaluates strategic business plans for organisations and these plans’ implementation for the success of the business. Students will be required to evaluate and recommend organisational structures outside the domestic situation. Moreover, they are going to critically evaluate the visions of those providing corporate leadership and how effective such visions and their related strategies are. Also included in this module, the evaluation of regulatory, ethical and social responsibilities of international firms.

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