Management and Administration - PDA

Management and Administration - PDA facilitates the development of management skills and personal and professional skills in participants that, having a relatively short - but solid - business experience, want training in management functions in their professional activities and prepare themselves to achieve in a Short-term, the full development of their potential as executives.

Strategy and organisation

• Organisational structure and development
  
• Performance appraisal
• Strategic planning and decision making
• Implementing and controlling results
• The balanced scorecard

Economics and finance

• Fundamental concepts of Economics
• Fundamental concepts of Accounting
• Fundamental concepts of Costs
• Finance for non-financiers

Personal development

• Personal Competencies and Personal Development Plan
• Time Management
• The concept of leadership
• Outdoor Activities
• People management, appraisal and motivation

Marketing and sales

• Fundamental Marketing concepts
• Sales organisation
• Sales management
• Sales plans

Operations

• The Quality concept
• Processes management
• Manufacturing and service companies
• Total Quality Management

Technologies and information systems

• Basic concepts
• IS on the Internet and inside organisations
• The use of ICT inside companies

Business plan

• The Business Plan concept
• Structure and contents
• A Business Plan simulation
• Carrying out and presenting the Business Plan

Final project

• The key objective is to acquire an in-depth understanding of a company organisation by planning and eventually carrying out an improvement or a business opportunity whilst being aware of its impact on each of the company's areas or departments.
• The project offers participants the chance to apply the knowledge, techniques and skills acquired during the programme to a real life situation. The project is carried out in work teams. It is an essential part of the diploma which is to be presented in the form of a written document (in digital format) as well as orally before other participants and the EADA Panel.

Tutorials

Participants will be working on putting together the final project throughout the programme. This work will be guided and supervised by a professor-tutor who will be offering participants counselling with the project. These tutorials are compulsory and are scheduled outside of class time, at times to be arranged beforehand with the tutor.