AIM Graduate School Units
All AIM Graduate School units explore the core skills used by practising managers. Assessment is workplace based and requires students to synthesis theory and practice to become an even more effective manager.
Lecturers with significant practical experience in their chosen field will enlighten and guide you throughout each unit.
Details of the AIM Graduate School's eight postgraduate courses can be found below. Units are offered in a variety of delivery modes - evening lectures, distance and intensive modes. To find out when units are scheduled, please visit the intakes page.
Graduate certificate professional management
The Graduate Certificate Professional Management consists of four core units. No electives are offered. The four Graduate Certificate units are:
- Managing People
- Managing Finance
- Managing Information
- Managing Marketing
| Managing People |
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The objective of the unit Managing People is to acquaint participants with the key concepts relating to understanding, employing, developing and supporting people. |
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| Managing Finance |
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A manager responsible for the performance of her/his section within accompany has an increasingly difficult task. Financial resources must be carefully managed in order to achieve maximum returns for minimum risk. The educational approach taken in this unit will greatly assist the manager to understand the financial questions, analyse them appropriately and respond effectively. |
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| Managing Information |
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Through their consideration of organisational information requirements, the sources of organisational of information, information systems management, the analysis of information, knowledge management, meetings and group discussions, project management, the exchange of information and conclusion and decision making, participants should become more effective managers of information.
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| Managing Marketing |
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The objective of the unit Managing Marketing is to enable participants to develop their knowledge and understanding of the scope and role of Marketing in a contemporary global environment characterised by unprecedented change and uncertainty and ever-evolving conceptualisations of time. |
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Graduate Diploma Management Innovation
The Graduate Diploma Management Innovation consists of eight core units. No electives are offered. The eight Graduate Diploma units include the four Graduate Certificate units plus:
- Managing Innovation
- Managing Strategy
- Managing Operations
- Contemporary Leadership
| Managing Innovation |
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The objective of Managing Innovation is to acquaint participants with the key concepts relating to the process of innovation and to the factors that affect the successful management of innovation at a tactical and strategic level, so that a culture of innovation is created wherein ideas are systematically captured and transformed into commercially viable projects that generate wealth. |
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| Managing Strategy |
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Strategic management is crucial to an organisation's direction and growth. It is also generally recognised as the most complex and challenging aspect of management. Successful companies today recognise that all their employees need to understand, contribute to and align their efforts with the firm's strategy. |
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| Managing Operations |
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The operational manager needs to understand the strategic imperatives that underpin the business plan.
The objective of the unit Managing Operations is to equip students with practical frameworks to manage operations successfully. |
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| Contemporary Leadership |
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The objective of Contemporary Leadership is to enable participants to develop their knowledge and understanding of what it is to lead and be led in a contemporary global environment characterised by unprecedented change and uncertainty. |
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