Executive Diploma in Business Administration (EDBA)

Course details

Ultimately, most highly motivated, well-educated people in administration wish to fulfil a senior management role in which they have to understand and effectively coordinate the work of major divisions of a company or group of companies. The EDBA is an advanced program specifically meant for those who have already gained a recognized diploma or degree and who now wish to study a course that prepares them for a senior management position. The emphasis during the course is on those aspects, which are essential for effective management within commercial or non-commercial organisations.

Modules of Study
Student is required to complete any 2 units from below to claim the Executive Diploma in Business Administration (EDBA).

Strategic Marketing Management: 
Marketing is at the core of business. Outperforming the competition requires solid marketing knowledge and precise marketing decision making. An organisation's positioning, and the positioning of its products and services, depend on the formulation and implementation of intelligent and well-informed strategic marketing plans. All organisations operate in a dynamic marketplace. Competition, consumers, technology and market forces constantly redefine the way organisations operate. Staying competitive means that organisations need to continuously adjust and adapt their customer approach to meet changing needs and expectations. Strategic marketing is a way of focusing an organisation's energies and resources on a course of action that can lead to increased sales and dominance of a targeted market. A strategic marketing strategy combines product development, promotion, distribution, pricing, relationship management and other elements of marketing. It identifies an organisation's strategic marketing goals, and explains how they will be achieved, ideally within a designated timeframe.

Strategic Planning
This module provides the learner with an understanding of how to review current organisational management strategies and the skills to develop a strategy plan in an organisational context. Learners will discover how important it is for an organisation to understand what is happening in their external environment and how the environment is changing. This will then enable learners to review an organisation's existing business plans, using appropriate tools and techniques. Having explored the competitive environment, learners will understand how to develop strategic options using modelling tools and then develop a strategic plan, giving due consideration to the core values, vision and mission of the organisation. Learners will then look at planning the implementation of a strategic plan and the creation of monitoring and evaluation systems to measure progress.

Strategic Human Resource Management
Strategic human resource management is concerned with the management of human resources in ways that support an organisation's strategy and contribute to the achievement of organisational goals. It takes a long-term perspective on how human resources can be matched to organisational requirements and considers broader matters such as the quality and commitment of the human resource to an organisation. The nature of the changing business environment requires adaptable strategic human resource plans. Organisations have a range of human resources policies that explain how human resources are examining human resource management, learners will understand how human resource strategy and policies enable personnel to work in ways that contribute to the overall effectiveness of organisations in both the short and long term.

Leadership
Learners will gain an insight into the current thinking on leadership from an organisational perspective. They will examine the links between strategic management and leadership, particularly the skills a leader needs to support organisational direction. The unit will help learners understand the impact of management and leadership styles on strategic decisions in differing situations, through examining the competences and styles of successful leaders. gives an organisational perspective, but it offers learners an insight into how it can contribute to development of their strategic management and leadership skills through assessing requirements for their current or future job roles. will enable learners to research a range of management and leadership development methods and evaluate their in meeting the skills requirements for effective leadership.

Strategic Change
Strategic change management is most effective when an organisation actively seeks the participation of all relevant stakeholders. A change management strategy will be effective only if it has the support of all stakeholders. If they are to have a sense of ownership, stakeholders need to have the opportunity to contribute to the development of the change strategy. Strategic change impacts on the human resources structure of the organisation and this often means a restructuring of the workforce or changes in working practices. Learners will develop an understanding of the models of strategic change and the role that stakeholders play in this process. They will then examine the need for change in a selected organisation and plan the implementation of a model for change.
Updated on 20 June, 2019