BA(Hons) - Hong Kong Management Association

BA(Hons) Global Business and
Logistics Management Registration No. 251920
In our globally competitive environment with many more organisations targeting international
markets, a greater need has emerged for graduates with a sharper international focus. At the
same time as the number of companies sourcing internationally has increased, global logistics
has become an increasingly important source of competitive advantage.
The Global Business and Logistics Management Course aims to provide students with the
knowledge, understanding and transferable skills essential to organisations looking for
tomorrow’s leaders and managers who will be capable of understanding the role of logistics
within a management framework. This course covers strategic management, quality and
enhancing business performance whilst ensuring that you understand, and appreciate,
international and cultural business issues.
Programme Structure
1. Global Logistics and Supply Chain Management
2. International Business
3. Logistics Management
4. Managerial Decisions, Change and Diversity
5. Managing Quality And Developing Performance
6. Strategic Management
Global Logistics & Supply Chain Management
Utilises key concepts from contemporary
marketing and logistics management to
understand the strategic and operational roles
of logistics in the international business
environment. Global and pan-European systems
for materials sourcing and product distribution
are emphasised to demonstrate how businesses
configure their supply chains to compete in
today’s major trading blocs.
International Business
This module develops the economics of trade
and location and examines the growth of
multinational corporations. The significance of
the international environment for international
business and the implications for competitive
strategies is studied alongside appropriate
organisational forms and methods of market
entry.
Logistics Management
Considers the relationship between logistics,
supply chain management, and strategic
management in helping to achieve strategic
advantage. Organisational and management
structures; information; appropriate operational
techniques; and technology, are all considered
as key inputs. Attention is paid to effective
logistics and supply chain management
structures including virtual supply chains.
Managerial Decisions, Change and Diversity
This module will consider the role and
functions of decision making in meeting
managerial and ultimately corporate objectives.
Students will gain a full awareness of the
managerial decision making process and the
associated decision making stages including
the contribution made by information
technology; and develop appropriate skills and
techniques.
Managing Quality and Developing
Performance
Examines the roles and responsibilities of
managers and explores the corporate, strategic
and operational approaches –and associated
techniques -to achieving ‘quality’. There is a
particular focus on employee and operational
performance and its management. A central
theme is achieving competitiveness through
quality performance measurement and
improvement whilst addressing stakeholder and
environment issues.
Strategic Management
Focuses on how managers and administrators
in organisations understand, evaluate, and thus
set key strategic objectives. Students will learn
key strategic management approaches, and
techniques, that will both help them to deliver
short and long term goals for their
organisation, and to guide their organisation in
the right direction.
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BA(Hons)