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Aim of course:

To provide students with a thorough grounding in business and management practice appropriate for people wishing to enter management roles in business.

Outcomes:

Graduates will have knowledge and skills relating to general management, business communication, working in groups, applied research and leadership. The area of skills can relate to accounting, law, marketing, economics or information technology.

Entry requirements:

• NZIM Certificate in Management or
• NCEA Level 2 or above or completion of an equivalent course of study approved by ICA
• International students should be over 16 years and have IELTS of 5.5 with no individual band less than 5.0 or equivalent in the ICA Internal English Language Placement Test.

Course details:

Course Length: 41 weeks 

Class Times: Normal studying hours and Weekend classes

Intake dates:

Intake	Start Date	Completion Date	Total weeks
Aug 2010	16 Aug 2010	21 May 2011	40
Nov 2010	01 Nov 2010	14 Aug 2011	41
Feb 2011	01 Feb 2011	05 Nov 2011	40
May 2011	24 May 2011	03 Mar 2012	41
Nov 2011	08 Nov 2011	18 Aug 2012	41

Course Structure:

The NZIM Diploma in Management is an NZQA approved level 5 qualification. This qualification consists of six papers of 20 credits each from the NZ Diploma in Business or their equivalent in other qualifications. The student needs to pass in four compulsory business papers plus two optional papers in management areas to complete the qualification. To be awarded the NZIM Diploma in Management Level 5 students must be credited with 120 credits.

Core papers:

530 Organisation and Management

560 Business Communications

630 Leadership

636 Applied Management

Optional papers (select two):

400 Accounting Principles or 520 The Economic Environment

510 Introduction to Commercial Law

435 Fundamentals of Small Business or 227 Entrepreneurial Planning

541 Fundamentals of Marketing

550 Business Computing

430 Quantitative Business Methods

632 Operations Management

633 Human Resource Management

Career Opportunities:

Students graduating with this Diploma will have skills, knowledge and competence to undertake a broad range of business activities involving a degree of self directed work and/or the supervision of processes and people.