Managing 1- Organisations and People

Managing 1: Organisations and People is one of the three modules of the Professional Certificate in Management, prestigious qualification in management programme offered by CODECS.

The Professional Certificate in Management is accredited by the National Authority for Qualifications (COR code 112029 - Manager) with the opinion of the National Register of adult training providers 40/12138/15.10.2013 number.

BZT628, which is a six months course, can be studied independently, but to obtain The Professional Certificate in Management students must pass all 3 modules of the program: “Management 1: organisations and people” (BZT628), “Management 2: marketing and finance”(BZT629) and “Management 3: the integration challenge(BZT690).

Who is it for?

Designed for working managers, those who deputies for managers, supervisors and team leaders, it takes a very practice-based approach to studying management concepts, focusing on your own role. It is suitable for aspiring managers provided you have experience of work involving leading a group or team; a project or task involving one or more others; or running/helping to run a voluntary organisation.
It is not suitable if you have no previous work experience (paid or unpaid) on which to draw.

Educational aims

This module looks at what managers do, concentrating on four key components of management:
• communication
• making decisions and solving problems
• planning, controlling, monitoring and evaluating
• the receipt and processing of information.

It looks at the human resource cycle, focusing on soft management skills such as motivating people, exercising power, influence and leadership and working in teams, as well as looking at recruitment, induction, performance, and staff development.
It allows you, the manager, to look at all these areas in the context of the organisation in which you work while taking account of what is happening in the external environment. Finally, it considers how you, the manager, can act as an agent of change to enable your organisation to anticipate and respond to the changing world in which it operates.

The problem-based approach to management learning

One important difference between this course and other management courses that you may have considered or studied is that it is problem based. Many management qualifications provide a clear academic understanding of management issues, and this is useful. But being a successful manager requires more than this. Our approach combines academic understanding with practical application. During your studies you will regularly solve management problems by applying relevant management knowledge. You learn not just ‘what’ but ‘how’ (as well as ‘why’, ‘when’, ‘where’ and ‘who’).
A problem is simply an opportunity to improve or do something differently. Problem solving is applied to difficult and negative situations, and also to any situation where we want to do something differently and perhaps better than at present. You will work on two types of problem, using either your own work situations to think about how you could make a change or improvement, or scenarios (problem-solving case studies) which are similar to real work situations. As you go through the module, you will be able to
use more learning in each problem, thus integrating through application what you have learned earlier.

What you will study

This course enables you to critically reflect on and analyze workplace situations and your own ways of managing. It is ‘solution oriented’ to help you to not only understand work situations from a manager’s perspective, but also to help you to work out what to do, given that you may not be in charge of the organisation you work for.

As you work through activities, problems and solutions, you will question the idea that there are single solutions or issues or that there is ‘one best way’.

You will come to understand the constraints, choices and demands that operate and learn when to work within them and when and how you may be able to bring about change.

Study materials

What's included

Course books, CDs and, via the course website, additional resources in digital formats.

Computing requirements

You will need a computer with internet access to study this course which includes also online activities.

Support from your tutor

You will have a tutor who will help you with the study material and study activities. You can ask the tutor for help and advice. The tutor will also mark and comment on your assignments.

The assessment components are:

The tutor-marked assignments (TMAs) consist of activities carried out as part of your study of the course. You will be expected to submit your (TMAs) online.

The end-of-module assessment (EMA) is wholly problem-based and will be focused on a workplace situation of your own.

To promote the course is mandatory, for each of the two TMA, and also for the EMA, to get at least 40 points on a scale from 0 to 100.

Residential school

There is a residential school in this course with the objective to consolidate and review the course material. Complex case study that students analyze at school integrates the whole areas studied.

Certification

The award of the course Certificate and of the Academic Transcript is conferred by CODECS.