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MBA - Supply Chain Management

Managing Human Capital

Programme Objectives

The programme aims to provide graduates and working professional who desire of becoming successful consultants in the competitive consulting industry, with first-hand knowledge of the tools and techniques used by successful consultants in the competitive management consulting industry. They will get a detailed understanding of the global consulting industry; how it works, its dominant players, key success factors and the management issues that drive it.

The MBA - Management Consultancy is a specialist high value Professional Masters Degree developed in collaboration with the International Professional Managers Association-UK, in consultation with the West Africa Federation of Institutes of Administration & Management Consultants, thus giving the degree the critically important professional flavour that is often lacking in many academic qualifications of its nature.

Benefits

At the end of the programme the successful student will have the ability to:

  1. Develop a business strategy through their understanding of
    • Management Processes
    • Management Functions
    • Strategic Management
    • Individual Behaviour
    • Group Behaviour
  2. Develop analytical and critical skills to evaluate new concepts, techniques and arguments in organisational and project management
  3. Develop research skills to advise clients to improve their business and management effectiveness
  4. Develop communication skills to explain and justify range of options devised for the benefit of their clients
  5. Advise clients on restructuring and improving business performance
  6. Exercise creativity in solving management and business problems
  7. Enable the student to improve their career and entrepreneurship prospects
  8. Enable the student to have the confidence to apply knowledge and understanding to improve business practices in diverse business and cultural environments

Programme Content

Overview

This module enables participants to develop a critical understanding  of current and emerging practices in the managing of human capital in organizations. It enhances participants ’abilities to increase the contribution of human capital management to long-term corporate success, whatever the specific nature of their managerial role and the industry they are in.

Student centered learning will be strongly encouraged and developed. Cooperative Learning and Problem-Based Learning will be infused into the teaching-learning-assessment strategies.

Group discussion, case analysis and self directed learning resources will be available to support the delivery and the appropriate assessment tools / tasks will be used to assess the intended learning outcomes.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of the module, students will be able to:

  • Demonstrate a critical understanding that to engage successfully in processes of human capital management, their thinking needs to go beyond such dualisms as thinking and acting, structure and culture, strategy and implementation, and see each of these as different facets of unified processes in human and organisational life.
  • Analyse and evaluate the choices presented in approaches to human capital management practices and how these relate to the overall strategic way an organisation handles its changing environment and the range of stakeholders with which it deals.
  • Critically appraise current managerial practices to inform the way they can contribute to the strategic direction of human capital resourcing, and develop appropriate and relevant solutions to employment management issues in their organisations.

Syllabus

  • Historical view of work, work today and workers’ psychological contract
  • Essence of organisational strategy, human capital strategy
  • Human Capital Management( HCM) roles in structures, culture and policy as well as strategic Human Capital( HC) partnership and alliance
  • The Workplace Relations
  • New Roles and Challenges for HCM
  • Human Capital Trends and Organisation Culture

Resources

  • Course Materials provided by IPE.
  • Gary Dessler, A Framework for Human Resource Management, 5th Edition, 2009, Pearson International Edition.
  • Eugene McKenna, Nic Beech, Human Resource Management, 3rd edition, 2010, FT Prentice Hall
  • Online resources on OCTAL Portal
  • Online data bases from IPE’s E Library