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Open learning improves career prospects and earnings

Study at home learning to become a Business Manager.

If you want a career in Business Management, our tutor supported open distance learning Business Management course provides the necessary knowledge, skills and qualification without disrupting your current lifestyle.

The DCA Home Learning Business Management course provides training in the core skills needed to embark on a rewarding career as a Business Manager. The DCA supported self-study Business Management course is specially designed, allowing you to learn the skills of Business Management through flexible and cost-effective home study at your own time and pace.

With the DCA Home Learning Business Management course, online study resources and a personal tutor are available to guide you throughout the course, and your Student Advisor is a Freephone call away. What's more, because the distance learning Business Management course is so comprehensive, no prior knowledge or skills are required. The DCA Business Management course provides an entry level diploma as proof our your competence and skills.

If you'd like to earn more money and enjoy working as a Business Manager, the DCA home study course is the ideal distance learning training course for you.

Management Skills and Issues:
• Personal qualities needed for success in business
• Setting duties, tasks and responsibilities
• Structure and authority
• Managing by objectives
• Checklist for an effective organisation
• Business ethics
• Time management
• Stress management
• The production team
• Warehousing, shipping and dispatching
• Administration, finance, marketing and sales
• Human resources
• Management functions in general

An Introduction to Management
• The content and process of management work
• Conventional and critical perspectives
• Specialisation between areas of management
• Models of management
• Management theories for uncertain conditions
• The general business environment
• The competitive environment
• Organising environmental analysis
• Stakeholder analysis
• The growth of international business
• Contrasts in national cultures
• Managing in an international context
• Responsible business practices
• Corporate social responsibility

Planning and Organising
• Types of planning and strategy
• Defining organisational purpose
• Alternative perspectives on strategy
• The importance of marketing
• Creating a marketing orientation
• Understanding the consumer
• Using the marketing mix
• Organisation structure and culture
• Creating the vertical structure
• Creating the horizontal structure
• Human resource management
• Performance appraisal
• The balance between old and new structure
• The context of change
• Influencing people to implement change
• Sources of power to influence others
• Behavioural models

Leading and Controlling the Business
• Motivation and behaviour modification
• Process theories of motivation
• Empowerment
• Careers in a time of change
• Communication and management
• Effective communication
• Problems and barriers to communication
• The basis of effective teams
• A model for team effectiveness
• The disadvantages of teams
• Finance and budgetary control
• Aspects of financial reporting
• Managing operations and quality
• Computer-based information systems
• The role of the internet
• Managing information systems
"Training from home let me study when and how long I wanted, therefore I had no restrictions. I feel it was better than if I had attended my local college." — Jessica A. B.
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