OBJECTIVES OF THE PROGRAMME

The programme is designed with a belief that an effective manager of the 21st century requires the highest level of relevant training in Management. The programme is therefore designed to provide students with higher level training in management techniques, that combine conceptual underpinnings with applications. The programme focuses on developing conceptual, analytical, technical, leadership and interpersonal skills.

The programme is tailored to develop those managerial skills that are essential for a Senior Manager. This implies that students are expected to be familiar not only with the uses of the acquired skills, but also with their application in real life situations. It is, therefore, expected that before enrolling for the programme, a student will have had an adequate theroretical undergraduate background. This will enable the student to embark on the MBA programme without a great need for fundamental/ elementary material.

It is hoped that this requirement would ensure that the MBA graduate would be in that enviable position of seeing both the 'trees' and the 'undergrowth'. The programme is designed with the sole objective of developing a 'confident' manager, that can and will make both strategic and tactical decisions.

Aware that good and effective decision making depends on both knowledge and experience, we have endeavoured to provide a programme that avails the student the opportunity to obtain a certain degree of breadth and depth of knowledge and skills, a multidisciplinary perspective, and the ability to integrate such knowledge and skills across all functional areas of management with a strategic and global perspective.