This course will guide students through a range of successful practices and guidelines based on research and experience, that will give them the opportunity to develop, practice and strengthen their communication (oral and written) and critical thinking skills. Students will also analyse and interpret data in meaningful ways for reporting in academic and work applications.
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The changes in the theories and practices of state intervention, in both developed and developing countries, are examined in this course. The course explores the machinery of government, the administrative traditions and the principal agency relationships. It also presents critical analyses of the movement away from more rule-based approaches to government activity to the introduction of market-based/market-driven models of state interventions and institution creation.
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This course will allow students to examine the different models of needs analysis and performance analysis and their use in defining education, training and professional development. The course will also equip students to employ appropriate analysis approaches for enhancing human performance and professional knowledge and skills.
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This course covers a wide range of topics such as: what managers do; the process of management; the practices of management (e.g. leadership and motivation); the functions of management; strategic management. There will be emphasis on the current organizational environment and how globalization and technology affect the processes and practices of management and the functions of businesses.
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Among other things, the course examines the different models of Public-Private Partnership (PPP), their advantages, disadvantages, obstacles to implementation, and implications for the delivery of social services, as well as the role of public servants in PPPs. The course also explores the inherent contradictions of maintaining the ethos of the public service while employing some of the mechanisms of the market.
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The course is designed to provide students with an overview of the fields of instructional design, instructional technology and distance education and the trends and issues that have impacted these areas in the past and present, and the impact on future directions of these fields. In addition, students will explore some of the innovations and latest research practices in these fields and how these have been influenced by the preponderance of emerging technologies.
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This course provides students with the knowledge to be financially literate and to interface confidently with the finance function in order to achieve the company’s strategic plans. With sustainability as a cross cutting theme, students are introduced to the main topics in accounting and finance that impact on the strategic decisions that are made in organisations on a daily basis. Through the use of case studies and projects, students gain hands-on experience in the strategic deployment of financial literacy by managers.
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This course explores the content and expressions of values and ethics within the public service and identifies the debate around the differences between public and private sector ethics. It covers the elements of public sector ethics at the professional level, examines their implications for the activities and attitudes of public servants and determines the extent to which these values remain relevant, given the introduction of commercial values and increasing interface with the private sector.
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This course allows students to create, save, manage and retrieve digital assets in Learning Management Systems (LMS) and Content Management Systems (CMS) using a variety of e?learning standards and specifications. In addition, students will be able to create and define a template and a data structure for all types of content/learning management systems.
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The course introduces students to graduate level work in MIS, and provides them with an overview of the seminal papers in the field. It also reviews current developments in the field. Student are guided and supervised on a virtual tour of the literature in Management Information Systems. Topics to be covered include the MIS Forum, Research in MIS, MIS and the Organisation, MIS and the Scholar/Professional.
