Special Executive Masters Programme in Business Management

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Course Overview

The MSBM Special Executive Masters Programmes (SEMP) allows you to update your skills, develop new skills, and explore and develop interests in various topics. These courses can be taken as personal or professional development and may enhance your employability.

Economic knowledge and good administration are crucial to prosperity and progress in modern society. For both customers and employees, it is important that companies and public institutions are administered well. At the same time, good administration significantly impacts a company’s bottom-line figures. One of the keywords in Business Administration is management, and as a SEMP BM student, you will gain insight into both financial and psychological aspects of management. The online Programme will provide you with a wide range of skills that will qualify you for many positions in the public or private sectors.

The Business Management courses will provide insight into Organisational theory, management psychology, marketing, planning, microeconomics, and cost management. You will learn how to locate and analyze management issues, such as increasing customer satisfaction; you will also learn how international conditions, technology, the global economy, or legislation influence companies and institutions.

Accreditation

The content of this course has been independently certified as conforming to universally accepted Continuous Professional Development (CPD) guidelines.

Entry Requirements

There are no strict entry requirements for this course. Work experience will be added advantage to understanding the content of the course.

Course Modules

This module provides the most critical information about the study course and assignment submission.

Harvard Referencing Style Guide

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How to Summarise - Assignment Guide

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Summarising, Paraphrasing, Quotation for your Assignment

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Official Title Pages

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This unit provides an in-depth understanding of the key principles and practice of leadership This will enhance the individuals’ knowledge, skills and attributes to effectively engage in the role and responsibilities required of an effective team player and leader of a team; being proactive in innovation and improvement to inform strategy and business planning within the organization.

Understanding the Principles, Concepts, and Approaches to Leadership

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CASE STUDY - King of the Hill

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Understanding Leadership Influences: Individual, Team and The Organisation

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CASE STUDY - How Google builds the perfect team

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Leadership and organisational performance

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Ethical Decision Making And Organisational Value

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CASE STUDY - Collaboration Shifts a Dysfunctional Culture

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QUIZ - Strategic Leadership

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The course is designed to help students become good researchers, to become familiar with the steps in proposing research topics, and clearly apply research knowledge in education. After completing the course, students will be able to prepare a research plan, collect data, address research questions and hypotheses, and organize a project report.

Research Philosophies and Principles
VIDEO - Overview of the Research Onion

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Selecting a Research Topic
Searching and Reviewing Literature
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Developing conceptual Framework
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Research Strategy and Design

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Research Methods I

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Research Methods II

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PDF - How Observation is Used As a Research Method

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Research Methods: Data Analysis

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Research Proposal and Writing Up
Research Ethics

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QUIZ - Advanced Business Research Methods

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Understanding the impact on business decisions, including the role of government, cross-border transactions, cultural and regional impacts are all covered in the International Business Module.

Understanding Entrepreneurship and Business Structure

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Understanding Business Functions 1

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Understanding Business Functions 2

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Understanding Business Environment and Relationships
Planning for and Operating a Business
Business Management

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On completion of this unit, learners will have gained knowledge and understanding relating to planning the usage and management of a business organization's financial resources. Learners will understand the importance of attaining business objectives and maximizing shareholder return. Learners will gain a working knowledge of business strategy design and the production of comprehensive business plans.

Understanding cost system and its classification

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Concepts and Tools of Cost Accounting

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CASE STUDY - Activity based costing in Xu Ji Electric Co. Ltd

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Understanding the Concept and Classification of Sources of Funds

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CASE STUDY - Global Fund Raising Strategies

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Understanding The Financial Performance Analysis

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CASE STUDY - Financial Analysis Reporting

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Understanding the Financial Ratios and its Various Types

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Understanding The Budgetary Concepts and Approaches

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CASE STUDY - How Maritz Accomplished a 40% IT Budget Reduction

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Understanding the Working Capital Management

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Understanding the Investment Appraisal Techniques

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QUIZ - Strategic Financial Management

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The aim of this unit is to develop learners’ understanding of how the effective strategic management of human resources supports the achievement of organizational objectives in different contexts. Learners will evaluate the contribution of strategic human resource management and the application of leadership and management theory for organizational benefit.

VIDEO - Human Resource Management Today - An Overview

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Understanding the role of human resource management

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Role of Human Resource Management Strategy in an Organisation

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Contributions of HRM

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Business Dynamics Concerning The Human Resource Strategy

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Case Study - Real-time, authentic employee voice feedback

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Determining Human Resource Requirements

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Fundamentals Of Human Resource Plan

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Legal And Ethical Requirements Of Human Resource Policies

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Human Resource Management And Organisational Strategy, Structure And Culture

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Effective Monitoring Of Human Resource Management Activities
People Development and Human Resource Management

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Case Study - Answering the Phone (Training and Development)

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Developing Human Resource Management, Recruitment and Selection

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Case Study: Solution for Recruiting Hard-to-Fill Positions

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Employee Retention Concepts, Tools and Strategies

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Organisational Theory Underpinning Human Resource Management

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Leadership Practices In An Organisational Context

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Strategic Leadership And Organisational Development

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Exploring Purpose Of Leadership And Evaluating Human Resource Strategy

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QUIZ - Strategic Human Resource Management

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The Innovation and Entrepreneurship module gives students an overview of the new venture development process, with the goal of equipping them with the skills they'll need to spot possibilities and turn them into profitable ventures. The emphasis is on identifying business concepts and conducting feasibility analyses to determine their commercial viability.

International Entrepreneurial Opportunities
Nature and Importance of Entrepreneurship
Creating and Starting the Venture
Innovation Management
Generating and Implementing Business Ideas
QUIZ - Innovation and Entrepreneurship

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Workshops

This is a self-study programme with unlimited tutor support. You will never be more than a message or phone call away from our tutors.

Visa Requirements

There are no Visa Requirements for this Programme as its as Online Programme.

Mode of Study

Using Web-based technology, this program provides self-paced, individualized instruction that can be taken anywhere and anytime an individual has access to a computer and the Internet. This programme is suitable for successful professionals or specialists in the private, public, or voluntary sectors who have new management responsibilities and need to expand their management knowledge quickly.

This Programme serves as a refresher course for those who had their Masters's a long time ago and need quick reminders and professional/ academic updates. At the same time, it also serves as a primer for those very experienced Professionals who never made time out for their masters. Yet, they require the academic and practical relevance of this master’s experience.

It is a short executive training that runs online for three months. Upon successfully completing the Programme, candidates will be awarded a Continuing Professional Development (CPD) certificate in the specific Programme they have achieved.

What is a CPD Course?

Continuing Professional Development (CPD) is the means by which professionals maintain and enhance their knowledge and skills. The world is constantly moving at a very fast pace. Hence, undertaking CPD is essential to support a professional in his/her current role as well as helping them with career progression. CPD is all about upgrading knowledge, skills, and capabilities to remain effective and compliant.

A CPD course is an investment that you make in yourself. It’s a way of planning your development that links learning directly to practice. CPD can help you keep your skills and knowledge up to date and prepare you for greater responsibilities. It can boost your confidence, strengthen your professional credibility, and help you become more creative in tackling new challenges.

Is the SEMP Business Management Programme right for me?

The ultimate aim of the SEMP Business Management program is to prepare participants to work in a management position in an ever-changing international environment where advanced technology and multicultural situations occupy an increasingly important place in the daily lives of companies. It exposes you to key issues in business management, and provides insight into relevant social, political, legal, and macroeconomic conditions affecting business. The online Programme is suited to a wide range of interests. Still, it is particularly relevant to those who plan to have a career in organizations that conduct business beyond a single domestic economy.

Why SEMP Business Management?

Succeeding in today's economy requires communicating and collaborating globally with a diversified workforce. The business world is constantly fluctuating, and successful business people must be adaptive to change and capable of working with diverse populations. The function of business is to create fiscal integrity and stability, prosperity, employment, and beneficial products and services. The online SEMP Business Management Programme will help you understand big and small businesses, and entrepreneurship, along with the important relationship between businesses and the communities they serve.

Who should enrol in this online Certificate Program?

The SEMP Business Management Programme is designed for entry-level managers, up to mid-level managers, senior managers or directors, and consultants who are in a general management role or fast approaching such a position and are seeking an opportunity to obtain a richer, deeper understanding of management skills.

The SEMP Business Management Program is ideal for professionals of all levels. This Programme provides practical skills to overcome daily challenges by providing participants with the latest management principles and techniques.