Business Management (Postgraduate Diploma)

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1 Year

NQF Level 8

120 credits

Supported distance learning

Flexible & 100% Online

About The Postgraduate Diploma - Business Management

The Postgraduate Diploma in Business Management (PGDBM) from MANCOSA is a one year postgraduate programme that provides students with advanced knowledge, skills and competencies in the key functional areas of business management. This programme will ensure that students are able to apply their management competencies to the complex and changing business environment in order to drive organisational growth.

Upon successful completion of the Postgraduate Diploma in Business Management,  students will be able to make informed decisions at middle and senior levels of management. This programme will equip students with the necessary skills and advanced knowledge to be successful managers and leaders in the challenging and diverse environment in which they find themselves.

  • Equips students to change business environment to drive growth
  • Develop an advanced understanding of business management

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Who Should Attend ?

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 degree or equivalent NQF level 7 qualification
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Career Opportunities

Postgraduate Diploma in Business Management

  • Business Analyst
  • Business Manager
  • General Manager
  • Business Consultant
  • Supervisor

Assessments

Four modules are assessed per semester. All the four modules are assessed in the formative assessment format.

Programme Structure

Duration: 1 year

Semester 1

  • Organisational Behaviour
  • Information and Knowledge Management
  • Marketing Management
  • Operations Management

Semester 2

  • Strategic Management
  • Accounting and Financial Management
  • Human Resource Development

Elective: Choose 1 Module

  • Entrepreneurship
  • Advanced Project Management
  • Managerial Economics
  • Business Ethics

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of the programme, the student should be able to:
  • Apply advanced management principles and theories in a variety of organisational settings.
  • Develop a multi-disciplinary and global view of business problems and situations.
  • Create a strategic perspective with respect to organisational decision-making.
  • Apply technology to business functions and an integrated e-business economy.
  • Critically analyse business opportunities and cases.
  • Possess sound leadership / management values.
  • Apply technology to business functions and an integrated e-business economy.
  • Identify and solve problems in functional management disciplines in an innovative way.
  • Contribute to the development and implementation of a business strategy.
  • Generate potential strategic solutions to business problems, through the application of appropriate research methodologies, scientific collection and analysis of literature and data.

Student Support

This Postgraduate Diploma in Business Management (PGDBM) 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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