The course provides the intermediated business management knowledge and skills of the candidates and will lead to the conferment of ABMA certificate upon passing the examination.
Course Structure Overview
- ABMA 2002 Information Systems Management (資訊系統管理)
- ABMA 2004 Organizational Behavior (組織行為學)
- ABMA 2005 Decision Making (決策釐定)
- ABMA 2031 Business Law (商業法)
*Each module consists of 12 lecturing hours plus projects and activities, with a total contact hours of 40 per module.
*Appointment of lecturers subject is alternation.
ABMA 2002 Information Systems Management
COURSE DESCRIPTION & OBJECTIVES
Students will obtain the knowledge on using information technology and information system to support and improve corporate strategies, operation methods and organization system, so that the corporate competitiveness can be sustained. Students will also learn the methods of developing an efficient information system.
On Completion of this unit students should be able to:
- Demonstrate an understanding of the management and implementation issues for Information Systems in an organization;
- Produce a critical review of the management for a real world information system.
COURSE CONTENTS
- Information Systems Planning
- Decision Making
- Strategic Planning
- Selection
- Planning and Management Aspects
- Change Management
- Protection of Resources
- Control
- International
- Ethic
ABMA 2004 Organizational Behavior
COURSE DESCRIPTION & OBJECTIVES
Students taking this course will gain an appreciation of the human resource aspects of management. More specifically, students will gain an understanding of some of the factors that determine personality and how these factors influence an employee's actions and reactions to superiors, coworkers, subordinates, and various job-related environments.
Students will be introduced to several motivational models to help them diagnose organizational problems that are motivation related and to successfully prescribe solutions based on the factors identified by these models. Through an examination of the concepts of rites, rituals, customs, and ceremonies, students will come to understand the role organizational culture plays in the functioning of an effective organization.
COURSE CONTENTS
- State why an understanding of human behavior in organizations is critical to a successful career in management.
- Describe the multidisciplinary origins of the study of organizational behavior
- Describe some of the factors that influence personality
- Apply and/or give examples of at least 4 theories of human motivation
- Describe at least 4 factors that could effect an employee's level of job-related motivation
- Give examples of how job design and employee motivation are interrelated
- Apply motivational theories to resolve problems of employee absenteeism, turnover, stress, job satisfaction, job performance and organizational commitment
- Describe the evolution of leadership theories
- Apply Blanchard's modified situational leadership theory to the diagnosis and resolution of real leadership problems
- Apply room's situational leadership theory to the diagnosis and resolution of real leadership problems
- Define organizational politics
- Analyze organizational leadership positions in order to determine a leader's source of power
- Describe the positive and negative aspects of team membership
- Describe the organizational factors affecting teams
- Recognize organizational cultures in which groups function
- Describe the way teams contribute to the organization
- Describe the methods for team formation
- Recognize the stages of team development
- Distinguish between team norms and team role
ABMA 2005 Decision Making
COURSE DESCRIPTION & OBJECTIVES
- To introduce students the basic concepts of decision making and the importance of decision making in business in general and in marketing in particular.
- To provide an understanding of individual, group, and industrial decision making processes.
- To compare and contrast the psychological perspective and the economic perspective on decision making.
- To discuss the roles of Chinese values, cultural collectivism, and relationalism in the processes of individual, group and industrial decision making.
- To provide an universal framework that includes cultural dimensions for understanding decision making processes on a global horizon. The impact of e-business on this framework will be discussed.
Basic concepts and models of decision making
Problem definition; normative theories, behavioral decision theories, naturalistic decision theories.
Processes in individual decision making
Use of policy for decision making, the lens model, social judgment theory, Information integration theory; choice, decision analysis, decision trees; subjective probability, conditionality and Bayes's theorem, utility theory, prospect theory, mental accounting principles.
Processes in interpersonal decisions
Behavioral game research, game theory, fairness and cooperation, conflict and negotiation, use of strategies.
Processes in group and industrial decisions
The decisional nature of organizations; organizational models, the rational model, the information model, the structural model, the garbage can model, the participation model; characteristics of group decisions, participation, option generation, consensus and confidence. Decision making related to e-business will be discussed.
Cultural factors in decision making
Cultural dimensions, the discussion of etic versus emic research, Chinese culture and values, cultural collectivism and individualism, relationalism, face work; toward an universal model of decision making, to propose culture as a moderator in the decision making models.
ABMA 2031 Business Law
COURSE DESCRIPTION & OBJECTIVES
This module will deliver the fundamental concept of company law and contract law to the students. The legal activities and relationships of the company’s operation will be explored. Detail topics include relationships between companies and wholesaler, retailers, customers, competitors as well as government. This module will illustrate a huge number of cases in the real world to the student.
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- Demonstrate a knowledge of the basic principles of contract and tort.
- Demonstrate an ability to extract legal principles from decide cases.
- Exhibit the basic skills of understanding and interpreting legislation.
- Show an ability to identify and understand relevant legal issues which may arise in the context of the student's future occupation.
- Apply relevant legal analysis to case study situations thereby developing problem solving and application skills.
COURSE CONTENTS
- Principles of contract and tort law
- Legal Relationships among Stakeholders
- Corporate and Investment Laws and Regulations
- Trade Laws and Regulations
- Import, Export and Commerce Laws and Regulations
- Taxation Laws and Regulations
- Intellectual Property Laws and Regulations
- Contract Laws and Regulations
- Labor Laws and Regulations
- Consumer Protection and Product Liability
Admission Requirements
Secondary school leavers with at least 3 years of working experiences. Mature students will be accepted by individual consideration.
Duration of Study
Each module will consist of 4 lectures, each with 3 hours of weekly lecturing. Students are expected to complete the course within 12 months, including submission of assignments or projects, and examinations.
Attendance
The minimum requirement for attendance will be 80%. Students with the rate of attendance under 80% will not be qualified for graduation.
Assessments
Students have to submit one assignment per module which carries 50% of the weighting and attend examination which will carry another 50% of the weighting. The passing mark will be 25% for assignment and 25% for examination.
Refund Policy
On receiving written refund application ten days prior to the commencement of the course, students will receive full fee refund. No refund after that due date. |
