Management

Management

1) INTRODUCTION

The Department of Management has recently completed a major curriculum revision process on general management. Several circumstances impelled an intense review of the existing degree offerings, and resulted in changes to the curriculum that had been essentially unchanged for some years.

Revising and developing this curriculum was driven by the following key objectives. The foremost of these was an interest in providing a curriculum that would meet stakeholders’ needs. An additional factor was an expressed interest on the part of Universities and government to maintain or increase enrollment on an aggregate basis. This naturally trickled down through the various universities’ organs and was reflected in this response.

With the implementation of the new Educational Policy of the country, starting in the 2003/2004 academic year, three year curriculum has been developed and it is being offered to students that have been admitted from preparatory programs. In the preparation of the curriculum, as per the instruction of the Universities and Ministry of Education, a discussion was made with universities that offer education on management filed.

When the current management curriculum was designed, attempt was made to integrate suggestions from various stakeholders. Suggestions from these sources indicated that new courses emphasizing computer skills, human resource management knowledge, communication skills, and leadership skills would be desirable.

The rationale behind developing nationally standardized Management curriculum was thoroughly explained as follows.

Firstly, Management is a crucial element in economic growth of a country. It brings together the factors of production: money, machinery, men, methods, markets and material to enable the country to experience economic development. A country with enough capital, manpower and other natural resources can still be poor if it does not have competent managers to combine and coordinate the resources. In the words of Drucker “without management country’s resources of production remain resources and never become products”. Management is important for learners because of many reasons. Of which these are some:

• Our society depends on specialized institutions or organizations to provide us with goods and services.
• Organizations are guided by managers who allocate resources and have responsibility and authority to manufacture safe, to declare war or peace, to build cities, to keep the environment clean

Second, Managers create jobs on one hand and products and services on the other hand.

In light of the conditions stated above, contents of this curriculum have been determined on the basis of previously done curricula, based on survey, benchmarking and information inputs gained from resources provided by the Ministry of Education on curriculum development ( specially, Bologna countries).

Among the lessons acquired through benchmarking is the development of curriculum by using the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) Model developed by Kaplan and Norton (1996), and curriculum design based on The Association to Advance College Schools of Business (AACSB) requirement.

The BSC addresses four value drivers of organizational performance which graduates are expected to manage in the future, namely:

1. 1.Financial Perspective
2. 2.Customer/Stakeholders Perspective
3. 3.Internal Process Perspective
4. 4.Learning and Growth (future) Perspective

1)   OBJECTIVES OF THE PROGRAM

Through its programs the department has the objective of producing:

• Professionals who are capable of planning, organizing, directing and controlling activities of private, public, non-government and government organizations.
• Professionals who can competently manage marketing, finance operations, human resource, materials, information resources etc.
• Professionals who are responsive and effective in working with and through others as well as capable of making and implementing decisions.
• Professionals capable of searching and developing opportunities as well as tackling problems.
• Professionals who are able to face the challenges of today's and tomorrow’s highly complex and competitive environment.

2)   PROFILE OF GRADUATES

The program is aimed at producing graduates that can have adequate knowledge, skill and attitude towards application of management concepts. Specifically:

• Capable of making rational decisions to solve organizational problems and manage conflicts.
• Capable for initiative and innovation
• Critical and independent thinkers
• Capable of analyzing the organization as a total system and align with its environment
• Capable of searching and developing opportunities as well as tracking problems, and able to face and respond the challenges of today’s and tomorrow’s highly complex and competitive environment
• Capable of planning, organizing, directing and controlling the activities of all types of organizations
• Capable to competently manage the marketing, human, finance, operations, materials, information resources, etc. of organizations
• Responsive and effective in working with and through others by developing an understanding of common goal
• Conduct research and consultancy service in management and related areas and offer training for those who are in need of it
• Capable of understanding the legal, social and ethical responsibilities associated with the management of all types of organization
• Capable of using information communication technology in utilizing and managing organizational resources
• Capable in using and maintaining professional commitment required in the area.

3)   PROFESSIONAL AND PROGRAM PROFILE

4.1)     Professional Profile

The management program should enable the graduate to acquire both theoretical knowledge and practical know-how pertinent to management profession so that they will be competent nationally and internationally. It should transfer employability skill in an ethical manner that can be mirrored through the cognitive ability, interpersonal skill, numeric skill and research working skill of the graduate.

4.2)    Program Profile

The program prepares students to become professional managers capable of executing Human Resources Management, Information System Management, Marketing Management, Operations Management, Materials Management and Financial Management and other managerial functional areas. The program will:

• Equip students with a realistic overview of major principles and techniques of human resources management systems
• develop the students’ ability and skills to identify their information needs source, and how to utilize the information obtained efficiently
• Introduce students with the development and operation of markets-local, national and international-for resources, goods and services
• Provide students of management with a sound understanding of the concepts techniques, and applications of production and operations management
• Equip students with entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship and ethical concepts,
• Equip students with the methods and techniques of acquiring, utilizing, and issuing of material resources.