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SPECIALISATION
PATHS
HUMAN RESOURCE
MANAGEMENT (HRM)
MBA 741- HR & ORGANISATIONAL
DEVELOPMENT
This course focuses on how to diagnose an
organisation and create an intervention to
improve it, build knowledge and provide
practice in the various techniques, explore
how the structures of organisations influence
career development and success,
discuss how topics such as power, opportunity,
mobility, discrimination, social and
human capital, control systems and organisational
forms affect decisions, actions
and opportunities and provide students
with a background and perspective that
will help them develop successful career
strategies.
MBA 742 – MANAGING PERFORMANCE
This course explains the use of strategic
aspects of performance management, discusses
how performance improvement
is achieved throughout the organisation,
for individual, team and organisational
effectiveness, evaluates how the continuous
development of individuals and teams
will enhance performance which can be
achieved by ensuring that individuals are
encouraged to behave in a way that allows
and fosters better working relationships.
MBA 743 – EMPLOYEE RESOURCING
This course provides an in depth analysis
of the methods used in staffing and selection
processes, investigates the processes
of designing, administering, revising, and
evaluating selection programmes that
comply with government regulation as
well as add value to the organisation. It
also helps students to evaluate the sources
available to organisation for recruitment
in order to assess the most effective ones,
develop recruitment strategies to reduce
staff turnover and thus reduce costs,
develop and utilise strategies to achieve
work-life balance, and thereby improve
performance in the workplace, develop
equal opportunities strategies in recruitment
and selection so as to make best use
of the diverse talent pool available, ensure
that resource strategies match overall organisational
strategies and evaluate the
tools which are used during the recruitment
and selection process.
MBA 744 – LEADERSHIP & INNOVATION
The course focuses on leadership from a
managerial perspective, explores leadership
models, becomes acquainted with
current research finding, investigates
examples of leadership in practice and
engages in developmental activities to
evaluate and enhance their leadership
skills. Students are assisted in identifying
the diverse, contemporary leadership competencies
utilised in organisational setting,
developing strategies which can exploit the
ability to think outside the box in order to
solve problems effectively, utilising and
developing their emotional intelligence
for better results both at work and in their
personal life, identifying the conditions
that both nurture and prevent innovation
and creativity, in order to develop strategies
to overcome any likely blockages to
creativity and innovation and utilising a
variety of techniques in order to unblock
the elements which prevent innovation and
creativity, at both individual and group
level.
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