UNIVERSITY OF NAMIBIA CENTRE FOR EXTERNAL STUDIES ...

Module description:This module is designed to expose the student with the functional area of Operations Management. The course covers the foundations toOperations Management in both manufacturing and service industries. The course deals with both strategic and operational issuespertaining to operations management and highlights the competitive advantage that the operations function can provide to anorganisation. The topics to be covered are human resources and job design, supply chain management, project management, inventorymanagement, aggregate planning and scheduling, enterprise resource planning and maintenance and reliability.Research ProjectCMRP3870NQA level: 8 Credits: 32 Module assessment: Continuous Assessment: 100% - Mini ThesisPrerequisites: NoneModule description:This module entails the preparation of a Mini-Thesis in the area of one’s specialization. The Mini-Thesis will have a minimum of 10 000words and a maximum of 15 000 words.Strategic Human Resource Management ACMHM3871NQA level: 8 Credits: 16 Module assessment: CA (50%) Examination (50%) - 1 x 3 hour paperPrerequisites: NoneThe module will cover performance management, Management by Objectives, Power and Politics in organizations, Conflict ManagementResolutions and Negotiations, Affirmative Action, Grievances and Disciplinary procedures. Efforts will be made to examine critically apractical case study for an institution of a student choice. Management theories related to the mentioned subjects will be considered.Strategic Human Resource Management BCMHM3872NQA level: 8 Credits: 16 Module assessment: CA (50%) Examination (50%) - 1 x 3 hour paperPrerequisites: NoneThe overall outcome for this module is that, on its completion, the student should be able to demonstrate a holistic understanding of theintegration of human resource strategy and business strategy. The course will consider human Resources Development aspects, suchas: The purpose of training, responsibility for training and development, training needs analysis, workforce diversity training, managementdevelopment, career management and it will explore the underlying theories and practices in human resource development. Efforts willbe made to cover international human resource management. Issues such as staffing the global enterprise-selection of internationalassignees, performance management for international assignees and foreign managers. This overall outcome will be achieved throughstudent’s mastery of the following specific outcomes.Strategic Management ACMST3871NQA level: 8 Credits: 16 Module assessment: CA (50%) Examination (50%) - 1 x 3 hour paperPrerequisites: NoneModule description:This module course in Strategic Management is designed to take final year students through the strategic management and planningprocesses – policy and strategy conception, formulation, elaboration, implementation, monitoring and evaluation; providing comparativetheories, applications procedures and practices used in and by modern and competitive businesses. The course will also seek tointegrate the various disciplines of management sciences in a coherent strategic framework.Strategic Management BCMST3872NQA level: 8 Credits: 16 Module assessment: CA (50%) Examination (50%) - 1 x 3 hour paperPrerequisites: NoneModule description:This module in Strategic Management is designed to take final year students through the strategic management and planning processes– policy and strategy conception, formulation, elaboration, implementation, monitoring and evaluation; providing comparative theories,applications procedures and practices used in and by modern and competitive businesses. The course will build on the material coveredin Strategic management 1 with a particular focus on the acquisition of practical skills in the strategy formulation and implementationareas.79