Diplomas (Top-up)
➤ Business Administration
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Limit the work success to one business area is not enough for executives while they are getting promoted to higher positions in their organizations. The need to consider other business areas and look from wider business scope is indisputable competencies for them to excel. This will allow them to be effective as leaders and take their decisions effectively and efficiently.
Business Administration Diploma is a high-standard program that is relevant and responsive to business trends. The program designed for current and future managers, business leaders and entrepreneurs looking to shift their career to the next level. The diploma will expose the participant to a solid foundation course that includes business tools, knowledge framework and useful models for holistic business view.
Throughout the diploma, participants will expand their learning capacities and business experiences. They will acquire indispensable skills and knowledge needed to succeed in their professional career. Participants will gain solid foundation of various business functions that covers Strategic Management, Marketing Management, Accounting and Finance and Human Resources Management; also, they will gain the required skills for effective management.
Diploma Objectives
➢ Provide participants with integrated solid business foundation
➢ Understand business knowledge that connects strategy to their operations and markets
➢ Provide strategic management framework of covers strategy formulation and Implementation
➢ Learn HRM framework and HR main functions
➢ Learn accounting and financial concepts and knowledge
➢ Learn marketing activities and function in the organization
➢ Learn how business units related and how they affect one another
Diploma Course
✴ Introduction to financial accounting ✴ Accounting cycle ✴ Transaction analysis ✴ Completion of the accounting cycle ✴ Financial statement analysis ✴ Nature and scope of finance discipline ✴ Types of Financial Markets ✴ Debt and Equity Instruments ✴ Financial Intermediaries ✴ Financial Statements and ratio analysis ✴ Major financial statements and accounting premises ✴ Cash flows statement ✴ Nature of investment ✴ Nature of the LT financing decision ✴ The overall weighted cost of capital ✴ Marginal cost of capital ✴ Evolve of HRM and its progress through history ✴ The different HRM functions ✴ Job Analysis; Job Description and specifications ✴ Different methods of collecting job analysis ✴ Understanding competency framework ✴ Core competencies and others types of competencies ✴ Corporate culture and values ✴ Techniques of employment planning and forecasting ✴ Different types of tests and assessments ✴ Techniques of selection interviews ✴ Define employee training and development ✴ Recognize Training Generic Model ✴ Identify training needs analysis (Performance gap) ✴ Identify training versus non-training solutions ✴ Performance management versus appraisal ✴ Different rater’s common pitfalls ✴ Methods in compensation planning ✴ Factors in determining pay rates ✴ Discuss current trends in compensation ✴ Flexible benefit employee programs ✴ Work Contract, working hours and leaves ✴ Management functions and tasks ✴ Management evolves and knowledge background ✴ Integration between Management and leadership ✴ Adopt different Leadership styles ✴ Balance between tasks and people ✴ Different motivational theories ✴ Concept of Performance ✴ Management by objectives ✴ Effective Communication ✴ Rewarding and coaching ✴ Define Strategic Management and Planning Concept
✴ Corporate Governance Concept
✴ Strategic Management Model
✴ Environmental Scanning – External factors
✴ Industry analysis (Porter forces)
✴ Environmental Scanning – Strategic factors
✴ Strategy Formulation
✴ Formulate competitive Vision
✴ Formulate effective working Mission
✴ Transforming mission into objectives
✴ Strategic objectives are cascaded through the hierarchy
✴ Types of Strategies in Organization
✴ Types of Corporate Directional Strategy
✴ Merge, Acquisition and Strategic Alliance
✴ Business Strategies; cooperation and competition
✴ Business Portfolio and Portfolio Analysis
✴ Functional Strategies and alignment of strategies
✴ Strategy Implementation
✴ Evaluation and Control
✴ The production, product and Selling Concept
✴ The core marketing concept and definition
✴ Marketing and strategy definitions
✴ The components of the marketing mix
✴ Applying marketing mix – concept and definition
✴ Difference between needs, wants, and demands
✴ Analysing the market environment
✴ Micro/macro environment–Understating marketplace
✴ Responding to market environment
✴ Target markets, positioning, and segmentation
✴ Segmentation, targeting and positioning
✴ Bases for and kinds of segmenting
✴ Selecting customer to serve
✴ Offerings and brands, Value and satisfaction
✴ Understanding customers and Marketing channels
✴ Creating value and value proposition for customers
✴ Product development and product life cycle
✴ Different pricing strategies
- European and Italian Quality Standards – the program is conducted within high framework of quality Italian and European standards of high educational measures of teaching quality that ensure the maximum effectiveness of the programs
- 6-months Program and Flexible Schedule
- Academic and Professional Balance – between the conceptual framework and practical tools and techniques that are applicable in practical business environment
- Professors and Instructors – of both academic background and professional experiences.
- Teaching Tools – include practical that enrich learning experience and allowing knowledge to “sink-in”
- Diverse Group – from different business sectors which promote group diversity and different perspectives
- Affordable Program tuition
- Copy of Official University Certificate
- Copy of ID or Passport
- Application Fee
- Applicant Recent CV
- 2 recent Photos
- Recommendation Letter
- Copy of official transcripts (for post graduate certificates/ Diploma obtained)
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