Management Appreciation Program

Overview

What you will study

The Management Appreciation Program offered by Hamdan Bin Mohammed Smart University is a non-credit “foundation” course designed to equip learners with a non-business background with knowledge and skills required to undertake postgraduate studies in Management. The course is approved by the Commission for Academic Accreditation of the UAE Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research.

This program provides learners with the knowledge and skills needed to appreciate and discuss the contribution that three core areas of Business makes to the management of a manufacturing, service or non-for profit organization:

• Management

• Economics

• IT and Quantitative methods

Program goals:

• PG1: Provide learners with basic and contemporary knowledge of Management, Human Resources, Marketing and Operations Management and the contribution they make in synergy in achieving organizational strategic objectives.

• PG2: Provide learners with an understanding of the fundamentals of economics, accounting and finance and its impact on businesses.

• PG3: Provide learners with an appreciation of the critical role information management play in business decision-making, and the pervasive role of Information Technology in businesses.

• PG4: Provide learners with an understanding of quantitative methods to assist managerial decision making.