Management
Effective management enables businesses and organisations to achieve their goals. Management is more than just the leadership and control exercised by senior executives. Management skills are practised by people in all roles and are valuable for people at every stage of their career. Key management responsibilities include:
- Providing direction through leadership, strategic planning and decision-making
- Recruiting, training and managing staff, and developing the capabilities of the organisation
- Developing efficiency, quality and innovation in operations in a global context.
To fulfil these responsibilities successfully, managers need specialised knowledge. They need to know what makes organisations successful, and how to analyse, manage and improve performance in a range of organisational areas.
There are many specialist management areas, including these, taught in the Bachelor of Commerce
Human Resource Management
For organisations to achieve their business goals, they need a workforce with specific capabilities. This means recruiting the right people into the right roles, ensuring that they perform and making sure they stay with the organisation. To do this, human resource managers undertake strategic planning and oversee recruitment, job design, reward and retention strategies and performance management.
International business and management
Businesses and their operations are often located in multiple countries with different legal and business systems and workforces from different cultures. International managers work on the strategies to make international operations successful, they understand the cultures and business practices of the countries in which they are operating, and they manage people and operations across cultures and borders.
Operations management
Operations managers plan, design, implement and manage processes, often in manufacturing or service delivery. Logistics and supply chain management are significant areas under the operations management banner. Process focused areas such as quality control and innovation are also a focus of operations management.
Organisation studies
Like different countries do, organisations have their own cultures. Understanding the relationships between the structure and culture of organisations and the behaviour of people in them is an important contribution to management. This knowledge allows change managers and organisational development managers to improve a culture when it is destructive, develop the capabilities of the organisation as a whole, and manage the organisations through changes such as restructures or mergers.
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