Postgraduate Diploma In Management Practice
University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business
Key Information
Campus location
Cape Town, South Africa
Languages
English
Study format
On-Campus
Duration
21 Months
Pace
Part time
Tuition fees
ZAR 94,500
Application deadline
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Earliest start date
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Introduction
Accelerate Your Growth and Success
The Postgraduate Diploma in Management Practice is perfect for middle managers who want to enrich their careers, junior managers with proven leadership potential, or specialized individuals moving into management roles. The modular structure of the course gives you time to implement what you learn – adding direct value to your organization.
Delegates will:
- Develop crucial business skills needed to thrive in complex environments
- Gain tools and techniques to be an efficient and effective manager Learn to be a leader who inspires and adds value without compromising on the bottom line.
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Curriculum
Values-based Leadership
Become a leader who inspires and adds value – without compromising on the bottom line.
In this course students will:
- experience personal leadership growth
- establish their individual "ground rules" and gain self-awareness
- put in place a framework for future enhancement and development (lifelong enhancement)
- acquire tools for personal reflection and insight
- learn integrative thinking
- take part in action learning and system thinking tools
- do an integrated case study.
Building Business Acumen
Gain vital managerial knowledge, tools, and techniques to be an efficient and effective manager.
Become a leader who inspires and adds value – without compromising on the bottom line.
In this course students will:
- learn business concepts and theories that underpin management practices
- be introduced to financial statements and finance
- develop personally
- understand core principles of marketing
- be introduced to operations and Lean management
- gain insights into managerial practices on people and organization management
- learn how to do an integrated case study.
Building Business Acumen II
Do you have what it takes to be an effective and powerful leader? The Business Acumen II course aims to further develop and strengthen business acumen. It teaches the application of tools and techniques that unlock your potential. A key learning outcome is robust knowledge and understanding of the financial, accounting, marketing, people management, and operational functions of an organization and the ability to make good judgments and decisions.
The course is designed for applicants wishing to equip themselves with a solid skill set in financial analysis tools, standard finance techniques, and effective operations, organization, people management, and marketing management practices to progress confidently in their managerial role or to become more effective entrepreneurs.
Student Learn:
- to apply, evaluate and integrate relevant business theories, tools, and techniques
- how to use a range of specialized skills to identify, analyze and address managerial problems and decisions in a confident manner
- when to demonstrate the ability to contextualize their learning into the organizational environment and how this translates in the approach to business strategy
- to understand financial statements (continuation from Building Business Acumen)
- financial reporting
- financial analysis and management accounting
- managerial statistics
- operations management
- marketing organization and people management
- financial value management
- business strategy
- personal development
- integrated business.
Emerging Markets in Context
Become flexible and agile in uncertain economic times. Gain managerial and leadership insights to master diverse national and international contexts.
Learn to understand global economic, social, and political trends and developments and how they may directly or indirectly impact an emerging market economy such as South Africa.
Student Learn:
- to understand the different challenges businesses and leaders face when they operate in diverse national and international environments
- how to adapt to diverse cultures and institutional environments and operate in conditions of uncertainty
- about the various roles of business on sustainable development issues
- how to do business in Africa and internationally
- the role and interplay of business, government, and society
- the role and importance of business ethics
- how to conduct an integrated case study.