This course is intended to equip the student with knowledge, skills and attitudes that will enable him/her carry out human resource management activities in an organization. The topics covered include: introduction to human resource management, human resource policies, human resource records, human resource planning, job analysis, recruitment, employee selection, placement and induction, employee performance appraisal, employee compensation, staff development, employee mobility and separation, emerging issues and trends in human resource management and industrial relations.
Consumer behavior is a fascinating field that studies individuals, groups and organizations, and the process they use to select, secure and dispose products, services, experiences or ideas. The course blends psychology, sociology, social anthropology, economics and marketing, so as to understand the decision making process of buyers and discuss the factors that influence the complex nature of consumer behavior. The course examines a wide range of consumer behavior concepts, models, and emerging trends that are essential to the marketing success of today’s commercial firms, non-profit organizations, and government institutions alike.
The purpose of this course is to deepen the students understanding and analysis of microeconomic principles covered in the introductory course. It will also provide an adequate exposition of the basic concepts and techniques of microeconomic analysis. The consumer and producer theory and the theory of markets will be treated mathematically and diagrammatically. Further, pure aspects of general equilibrium theory and welfare economics will be covered. Its content covers: Price Theory and its applications; Concept of elasticity as a measure of responsiveness and its application; income, price and cross elasticities, equilibrium and disequilibrium models in microeconomic theory, indifference curve analysis and consumer behaviour, mathematics of production, stages of production, returns to scale, theory of market structure, factor markets, general equilibrium theory and welfare. Prerequisite ECON210
The purpose of this course is to provide students with the basic understanding, analytical and computational ability of various techniques and models used in business and managerial decision-making. Its content covers; Overview of probability theory, counting rules, conditional probability, joint probability, probability trees, and Bayes Theorem, decision analysis, decision making under uncertainty, linear programming, graphical and simplex algorithm, sensitivity analysis, transportation problems and networks, forecasting, time series analysis, trend analysis, cyclical variations, inventory models, economic order of quantity and fixed order, fixed order quantity calculation, lead time and inventory control models, queuing models, project planning, scheduling and network analysis with PERT/CPM, simulation techniques. Prerequisite MGMT 221