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0501202 |
Business Ethics |
This course provides students the practical knowledge and methods of addressing ethical issues and challenges faced by the managers throughout their professional business arena. It will draw on a variety of materials and experiences as a basis for analyzing and evaluating the manager’s and the firm’s options and decisions. Discussions on various other topics like theories of ethics, the importance of ethics in attaining business success, exploring ethical issues and considerations within a business environment, and varied frameworks for analyzing and resolving real-world ethical issues are also the part of this course. Emphasis will be placed upon the manager’s social and environmental responsibilities to a wide variety of stakeholders, including employees, customers, and the public. Student engagement in discussion of several case studies from real-world applications. |
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0501403 |
Business Law |
This course intends to provide students with the necessary understanding for the legal and regulatory environments within which business organizations operate. It focuses on the important legal concepts and principles relevant to doing business in UAE in particular. Among the topics that are discussed in this course are forms of business organizations, essentials of contracts and agreements, ethical and legal elements of doing business, negotiable instruments, agency, insurance dealings, and employment law. |
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0501220 |
Business Reporting |
This course introduces all aspects of written and oral communication applicable to the business world to the students. The course focuses on reporting mechanisms for business, industry, and government. Furthermore, written business correspondence (memos, letters, reports, e-mail, and resumes); analysis and interpretation of business problems; basic writing, editing, and presentation skills; and interpersonal communication; and ethical and legal considerations in the communication process are also included in the course that helps students to enhance their knowledge and communication skills. |
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0501204 |
Business Research Methods |
This course aims to provide students with the necessary skills and knowledge to determine the information necessary to address the identified basic or applied research problem and, using these skills and knowledge, develop an actionable research proposal. By taking this course, students will gain an understanding of relevant approaches, elements, and stages of undertaking a research enquiry to provide insights to solving a relevant business problem. Students will develop core competence required to carry out a research enquiry, including identifying and formulating research problems, setting appropriate research objectives, explores qualitative and quantitative research methods, connects the research with existing literature, selecting, and applying appropriate research approaches, secondary and primary data collection and instruments, sampling and analysis methods, as well as the importance of ethical conduct in business research. This course discusses different methods and techniques essential to the execution of effective, coherent, and rigorous research for informed business decisions and practices |
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0501201 |
Introduction to Management |
This course provides students with foundational knowledge and skills concerning the role and functions of management. This course introduces the theories, concepts, and frameworks of management and how these lead to the effective management of an organization. These frameworks support critical analysis of individual and organizational operations, performance to business opportunities and pressures to explore the four critical dimensions of planning, organizing, leading and controlling within an organization. These insights enable students to identify their role as future managers and to map their contribution to creating value in both an individual and organizational level. |
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0503201 |
Managerial Finance |
The course is a core requirement for undergraduate business programs and introduces business finance. It provides insights to students about conceptual framework of financial management at the introductory level, covering major financial theories, practical tools and analysis used in financial decision-making. The core topics include financial statement analysis, financial markets and institutions, time value of money, bond and stock valuation, the relation between risk and return, cost of capital, capital budgeting, leverage, as well as working capital management. |
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0509102 |
Mathematics for Business |
The course introduces students to the language of algebra and its different topics. Topics include operations with real and complex numbers, graphing first and second-degree equations, fractions, and solutions of equations (linear, quadratic, and logarithmic). The course portrays algebra as a logical extension of arithmetical processes and as a powerful tool for analyzing relationships in social sciences. |
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0506203 |
Management Information System |
This course aims to develop students’ knowledge of information technology and systems, understanding of the nature and value of information in the decision-making process and achieving efficiency and competitive advantages. The course also introduces different types of Information Systems such as ERP, SCM, CRM and their roles in modern business organizations. It also develops students understanding and awareness of the social and ethical implications of information systems. |
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0501305 |
Operation Management |
This course provides knowledge of forecasting methods, quality management methods, process design, dependent- and independent-demand inventory models, task design, aggregate planning, short-term planning, product design methods, and introduction to the techniques of project management to the students. Moreover, this course includes topics like; the strategic relationship of operations with other functional organizations, value chain concepts, and quantitative methods of operations, including forecasting models, inventory models, statistical process control, process models, and project management methods in particular. Furthermore, this course also helps to provide a review of current supply chain practices to the students such as JIT, MRP, and EOQ inventory management methods. |
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0501303 |
Organizational Behavior |
The main objective of this course is to provide a broad and thorough understanding of organizational behaviour (OB) in the development of today’s organization. The course focuses on the practical applications of OB concepts and techniques that all managers and employees encounter in their related responsibilities. With the help of this subject the students will learn and understand about personality traits, power, communication, and motivational models, the role of culture and values, and work design. |
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0502101 |
Principles of Accounting (1) |
The aim of this module is to ensure that students understand the role, function and basic principles of financial accounting and establish an appropriate technical skill of the rules of double-entry bookkeeping. It introduces students to accounting concepts, principles, and processes underlying the production of financial statements in service and merchandizing companies and analyzes the measurement and reporting of business transactions to users of financial statements. It also develops the ability to prepare and report on financial statements for basic reporting entities in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principle (GAAP) and in line of the adopted International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) for listed companies in UAE. The concepts and principles learnt in this course are an essential foundation for the later studies of Financial Reporting (intermediate and advanced), cost and management accounting, corporate governance, and Audit and Assurance. |
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0502102 |
Principles of Accounting (2) |
The aim of this course is to ensure that students understand the role, function, and basic principles of financial accounting. They also develop the ability to prepare, analyze and report on financial statements for basic reporting entities in accordance with current National Accounting Standards recognized in the UAE, and in line with the adopted International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRSs) for listed companies in UAE. The concepts and principles learnt in this course are an essential foundation for the later studies of Intermediate, IFRS Financial Reporting, and Audit and Assurance. This course introduces students to accounting processes of measuring and reporting business transactions to interested users through preparing classified financial statements. Topics to be covered include financial statements in merchandizing and manufacturing companies, inventories valuation, fraud and internal control of cash, accounts receivables, plant assets and natural resources, and current liabilities. |
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0509220 |
Principles of Macroeconomics |
This course provides an introduction to macroeconomic theory allowing students to understand the process by which the levels of economic activity, employment and rates of interest are jointly determined. The board coverage includes national income accounting, governmental fiscal and monetary policies, economic growth and classical-Keynesian debate on aggregate output ,business cycle and open economy. |
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0504206 |
Principles of Marketing |
This course is designed to provide students with an understanding of the principles of marketing; and the marketing process from the perspective of both the buyer and the seller. The student discovers and explores tools that can be used to find out what customers really want and need, and how to differentiate the customer groups, how to identify key environmental forces that affect marketing decisions and the importance of competitive positioning and marketing mix. Students will develop a comprehensive marketing plan and apply course concepts for real or imaginary products. |
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0509210 |
Principles of Microeconomics |
The course provides an introduction to a core area of economics known as microeconomics. It considers the operation of a market economy and the problem of how best to allocate society's scarce resources. The course considers the way in which various decision- making units in the economy (individuals and firms) make their consumption and production decisions and how these decisions are coordinated. This course introduces microeconomic concepts and tools necessary to analyze various microeconomic problems, such as issues of scarcity and choice, the tools of price determination and elasticity, supply and demand, theories of firms, factor pricing, output and pricing decisions in the perfect and imperfect competitive markets. |
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0509201 |
Statistical Models |
This course acquaints students with the advanced concepts of statistics that will help them to make or evaluate decisions using statistical analysis of empirical data. The coverage includes inferential statistics, basic probability, hypothesis testing, parametric tests, different regression models and time series analysis. The course also focuses on the utilization of statistical methods as applied to business problems and operations. |
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0501402 |
Strategic Management |
This course is an integrative approach to the study of the total enterprise from the executive management's point of view—the environment in which it operates, the direction management intends to head, management's strategic plan and the task of implementing and executing the chosen strategy. The course aims to show how well-crafted and executed strategy benefits a company's long-term performance, to integrate concepts from the core curriculum and to apply strategic management in business settings. The course centers on the theme that a company achieves sustained competitive advantage if and only if its management can implement appropriate choices in the future direction and competitive scope in running the company. |
0501425 |
Change Management |
This course develops knowledge and understanding of the key principles and concepts of change management among the students. The course provides insights to students on how managers in organizations have to follow a process while anticipating and implementing a change. It involves the formulation and implementation of a strategy for change, the impact of the environment and communicating the change in vision, empowering employees to perform, and the role of change management processes, leadership culture and lifelong learning opportunities in real business case scenarios. The course also helps students understand how to create short win-win situations for the employees and the organization. |
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0501300 |
Creativity and Innovation in Business |
This course is designed for the students to introduce the practices necessary to stimulate and manage innovation in business. The course includes frameworks and methods for designing, developing, and implementing innovation in real work situations with a perspective and skill sets necessary to manage innovation-focused projects, people, and ventures. The course emphasizes on how innovative tools and methods can successfully be employed in real work situations. The discussion within each class comprises of several basic components including framework, business case, methodology or tool, and application to a practical business situation. |
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0501230 |
Global Business Contact |
This course aims to develop the students to deal with the challenges and opportunities created by the modern globalized economy. The emphasis of this course is on the international macro-environmental factors, ethics, CSR, globalization, market power, and different alternative means of Global businesses. Moreover, the course also covers the increased role and impact of globalization, international trade, and its influence on government, cultural and behavioral differences, global business decisions and the influence of foreign entities' business activities on modern local businesses. |
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0501250 |
Global Human Resource Management |
The global human resource management course enables students to explore emerging trends in technology, globalization, and other developments impacting human resources practices. The course coverage includes essential topics from a managerial perspective regarding human resource management functions in local and global contexts. It also covers the effect of international context on several HRM functions such as recruitment and selection, pay and compensation, planning, and rewards. |
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0501422 |
International Companies Management |
This course investigates the tactical management of international firms and examines why organizations build up operations in other countries. The course help students to understand the function of managers in managing international firms with a focus on cultural, social, strategic, ethical and functional aspects. The course further integrates the management of international firms with various implications of global business. |
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0501390 |
Leadership |
This course introduces students to the leadership practices and methods used by managers and directors in modern organizations. The emphasis is on developing leadership experience in students through initiating, developing and delivering leadership skills and team development. The course further discusses the trait approach, skills approach, situational approach, transformational leadership, and leadership ethics in implementing leadership in organizations. |
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0501420 |
Negotiation and Conflict Resolution |
The objective of this course is to develop the necessary skills among the students to manage conflict situations and negotiate effectively. Negotiating effective agreements is typically viewed as a blend of art and science. Therefore, in developing effective negotiation and conflict management skills, this course heavily emphasizes experiential learning through students participating in a variety of active discussions and role-plays. Emphasis will be placed on students to improve their ability to diagnose negotiation situations, strategize and plan upcoming negotiations and engage in more effective negotiations. |
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0501350 |
Project Management |
The objective of this course is to provide students with the tools and techniques needed to initiate and manage a project effectively. The course will enhance the ability of students to respond to the challenges of large-scale projects so that they can be more effective as project managers. The course also examines the modern project management concepts, models, and techniques and reviews case studies so students can develop practical skills necessary to be successful in the field. This course introduces students to the project management practices, methods and approaches made in the modern organizations. The emphasis is on quality planning, organizing and controlling projects in business organizations. |
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0501205 |
Risk Analysis and Modeling |
The course addresses the different factors of risk analysis and modeling in business including risk assessment, risk control and risk financing from a managerial point of view. Up-to-date coverage of risk analysis and modeling as it applies within the realms of business risk analysis. The course aims to familiarize students with the critical role of risk analysis and assessment in the business industry. |
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0501450 |
Internship |
The internship presents an opportunity for real-world experience. The major goal of an internship is to provide students with an experience that will enable them to apply the knowledge and skills acquired during coursework in a real-world setting. Students will learn how decisions are made in collaboration with others, facing constraints and challenges they may not have faced in the academic world of the classroom. |