Programme Rationale

This Post Experience Qualifying Programme is designed for working executives and professionals in private and public sector organisations in overseas locations.

This study at Professional Part 2 provides the practicing manager or executive the opportunity to be more effective in his personal performance and for his organisation.

The course of studies for the Post Experience Qualifying Programme (PEQP) encapsulates all aspects of management knowledge and practices which taken together will enhance the analytical and problem solving skills of the individual manager.

Programme Objectives

1. To enable the manager to develop advanced professional skills to meet the demands of their business organisation.
2. To enable the student to develop and apply analytical and problem solving skills in a variety of business and management contexts
3. To enable the student to exercise creativity in solving management and business problems.
4. To enable the student to improve their career and employment prospects through membership and licensing from the International Professional Managers Association
5. To enable the student to appreciate the value of advanced studies as part of a process for career advancement
6. To enable the student to have the confidence to apply knowledge and understanding to improve business practices in diverse business and cultural environments

Course Outcomes

The Professional Part 2 and membership status will be awarded to students who have demonstrated:

1. Ability to identify and apply a variety of different learning strategies
2. Range of cognitive, critical, intellectual, research, personal and interpersonal skills
3. Critical awareness of current issues and problems relating and concerning the effective management of business and their organisation in diverse cultural environments
4. Understanding of the practical knowledge, techniques and skills applicable for the effective management of business and their profession.
5. Ability to present and communicate ideas in a structured manner through the completion of a set examination
6. Ability to apply and transfer practical solutions to identified management and business problems
7. Ability to conduct and incorporate research into business, people and organisations, management theories and techniques to identified problems and their solutions.

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge

The course will require the student to understand and appreciate the principles and  concepts of management and organizations and to apply these theoretical concepts towards understanding business practices.

Students will be able to collect relevant information across a range of areas pertaining to a current situation, analyse that information and synthesise it into an appropriate form in order to evaluate situations and alternative courses of action that may be contemplated.

Within the broad framework of organisations, their external context and management, students will be able to use knowledge to analyse (e.g. by classifying, contrasting, discriminating, examining), to synthesise (e.g. by constructing, creating, formulating, hypothesising, negotiating, planning, validating) and to evaluate (e.g. by appraising, concluding, judging, measuring, prioritising, recommending) cases in the following topic areas:

1. The impact of contextual forces on organisations including legal systems; ethical, economic, environmental, social and technological change issues; international developments; corporate governance,intercultural diversity;
2. Markets and customers; the development and operation of markets for resources, goods and services; expectations of customers and equivalent stakeholders, service and orientation;
3. The concepts, processes and institutions in the production and marketing of goods and/or services; the management of resources and operations;
4. The financing of the business enterprise or other forms of organisations: sources, uses and management of finance; use of accounting for managerial and financial reporting applications;
5. The organization and development of international operations in the context of a globalised world;
6. The application of information technology and communication technology in the processes of management;
7. The management and development of people within organisations: organisational theory, behaviour, industrial/employee relations, human resource management, change management;
8. The development of appropriate business policies and strategies within a changing context to meet stakeholder interests.

Cognitive skills

When students have completed Post Experience Qualifying Programme, they will be able to:

1. Think critically and creatively: manage creative processes in themselves and others; organise thought, analysis, synthesis and critical appraisal; including to identify assumptions, evaluate statements in terms of evidence, detect false logic or reasoning, identify implicit values, define terms adequately and generalise appropriately;
2. Tackle situations by establishing criteria, formulating potential courses of action, implementing and controlling selected courses of action, evaluating results, and reviewing processes for same;
3. Communicate effectively their analytical findings, practical solutions and recommendations logically

Practical, Personal, Professional Skills and Attributes

When students have completed the Post Experience Qualifying Programme, they will be able to:

1. Select appropriate solutions and options for the situations presented;
2. Recognise situations in which unusual ethical matters arise; and apply ethical, societal and organisational values to situations, choices and solutions
3. Manage their time and self effectively in undertaking relevant analysis
4. Conduct research into business and management issues
5. Learn through reflection on practice and experience

Key Skills

When students have completed the Post Experience Qualifying Programme,  they will be able to:

1. scan and organise data, abstracting meaning from information and sharing knowledge;
2. perform everyday numeracy skills in relation to quantitative data, including using models of business situations; exercise basic qualitative research skills;
3. undertake systematic problem solving and decision making including setting of frameworks, identifying appropriate decision making techniques, option selection and implementation;
4. use proficiently information technology, including word-processing and spreadsheet software, messaging and conferencing, and the internet;
5. Communicate effectively in writing
6. Exercise self-awareness and self-management, perform time management;
7. Exercise sensitivity to diversity in people and different situations; and continue learning;
8. Recognise and utilise other people’s contributions in their personal research