Business Administration

Overview

It will help you to develop a good grounding in the theory and practice of managing and leading, covering the core functions and disciplines of management and helping you make the connections between them. It also provides a framework for a year-long process of professional development. You'll be challenged to actively engage with a wide variety of ideas and develop a repertoire of techniques and approaches best suited to your own situation and management context.

Key features of the Certificate in Business Administration qualification from The Open University UK

• Helps you select and adapt techniques and approaches appropriate to your own situation, and to reflect critically on your own and others’ practice
• Explores diverse perspectives and approaches in different organisational, cultural and global contexts
• Increases your ability to work confidently across sectoral and national boundaries
• Enhances your ability to plan and implement change which will have real impact within your own organisational context.

Career relevance

The Open University Business School is one of an elite group of schools worldwide accredited by the three leading international accrediting bodies – AACSB, AMBA, EQUIS – hallmarks of quality of teaching, learning materials and qualification impact. It is home to almost 27,000 successful MBA graduates representing 119 countries.

This certificate is designed for professionals from a wide range of contexts and backgrounds who need actively to engage with the challenges of twenty-first century management. It will enable you to develop your management skills and knowledge of management frameworks, theories and tools and to use these appropriately in order to make a real difference in your own practice.