This course establishes the importance of employing appropriate control strategies towards effective safety management. The Occupational Safety and Health manual document inclusive of policy, organization and arrangements is explored so that participants can grasp the essential element of planning and implementation to ensure effective safety and health management.
PHIL1901
Assessment:
Class participation - 20%
Assignment - 40%
Final Exam - 40% (face-to-face)
Students, who entered the programme before 2009, we recommend that you take this course as a substitute/replacement for PHIL1900 Ethics, Logic and Philosophy.
Required Text: Trevino, Linda and Nelson, Katherine. (2006) Managing Business Ethics: Straight Talk about how to do it Right 4/E Wiley. ISBN: 0471755257
Velasquez, Manuel. (2002) Business Ethics: Concepts & Cases 6/E Prentice Hall, ISBN: 0-13-093821-1
PROC010
This course provides participants with an overview of the ever-changing profession of procurement giving a description of the environment in which procurement occurs while identifying fundamental concepts in the discipline. It will also link procurement and the other organisational functions.
PROC020
This course will expose participants to some of the main economic and management themes underlying effective management of the procurement function. Some of these include the total cost of ownership, the economics of framework agreements, contract bundling, among others.
PROC030
The Procurement cycle calls for various steps such as planning and preparing bid documents, publishing bid notices, receiving and evaluating bids, awarding of contracts and managing of contracts. This course will pay special attention to these topics using needs analyses and the development of procurement plans.
PROC040
Inventories are crucial in the operation of any organisation and require proper planning, managing and controlling in order to achieve efficiency and maintain profit margins. As such, participants will be equipped with the knowledge and skills required to manage assets, inventory and records in a procurement environment.
PROC050
This course on risk management introduces the definition of risk, the purpose of risk management and discusses steps towards the effective management of risks in the procurement process. Practice case studies and exercises will be used within the course and participants will be required to undertake simulated risk and fraud analyses using the methodologies.
