Postgraduate Diploma in Management
Designed to further develop management, leadership, and administration skills of students with relevant work experience and qualifications — enabling them to gain more purposeful employment and make a difference in the work environment.
1 Year
NQF Level 8
120 credits
Supported distance learning
Flexible & 100% Online
About The Postgraduate Diploma - Management
The Postgraduate Diploma in Management (PG Dip Mgt) from REGENT Business School is a 1-year postgraduate qualification that provides students with advanced knowledge, skills, and competencies in the key functional areas of management. This programme enables students with relevant work experience and appropriate qualifications to further develop their functional and reflective competencies in management, leadership and administration.
The programme aims to develop an integrated conceptual understanding, synthesis, and critical application of specialised qualitative and quantitative issues in management. The qualification is directed towards students having relevant work experience and occupying middle and senior management positions and who have completed a bachelors degree or equivalent qualification.
This qualification will enable students to develop in-depth, discipline specific skills and applied competence in the private and public sectors that will provide opportunities for personal intellectual growth, more purposeful employment and making a contribution to society. The qualification will empower graduates to solve problems in a focused way and to effectively manage and allocate resources, to Communicate effectively and to contribute to knowledge and socio-economic transformation in a responsible and ethical manner.
- Develop their functional and reflective competencies in management, leadership, and administration.
- Contribute towards the extension of knowledge on business management, leadership and administration.
- Demonstrate the ability to identify, analyse and solve Management and commercial problems.
- Acquire an understanding of how to manage resources and processes in a business context.
Who Should Attend ?
Postgraduate Diploma in Management
Any graduate, employee, manager or aspirant manager whose position requires:
- An integrated knowledge on the functional areas of management.
- A strategic evaluation of business and business opportunities.
- Skills to broaden the leadership of our knowledge-based economy enabling sustainable development, growth and prosperity.
Entry Requirements
- A Bachelor’s NQF level 7 Degree, or equivalent qualification;
- At least 2 years of work experience
Career Opportunities
Postgraduate Diploma in Management
- Business Analyst
- Business Manager
- General Manager
- Business Consultant
- Supervisor
Assessments
The final assessment marks consist of assignments and examination.
Programme Structure
Duration: 1 year
Semester 1
- General Management
- Marketing Management
- Business Research
Semester 2
- Financial Management
- Economics
- Operations and Innovation Management
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of the Post Diploma in Management programme, the student should be able to:
- Apply quantitative methodologies in making work-based decisions
- Apply scientific enquiry and research methods
- Utilise technology to solve work-based problems
- Display research skills in solving work-related problems in the management of a range of organisations
- Contribute towards the extension of knowledge on business management, leadership and administration
- Demonstrate the ability to identify, analyse and solve management and commercial problems
- Acquire an understanding of how to manage resources and processes in a business context
- Contribute to the resolution of socio-economic problems of a developing Southern Africa in an ethical and responsible manner
- Articulate vertically to REGENT Business School’s Master of Business Administration (MBA) Degree programme
Student Support
This Post Diploma in Management is delivered through online learning and digital support.
The guide includes:
- Compulsory readings
- Self-study activities
- Tutorial Letters
- Assessment Exercises
In addition, students have access to:
- Online Journals
- Past examination papers
- Supplementary learning materials available
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