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Diploma in Management

Overview

The Diploma in Management will provide you with a comprehensive, intensely practical exploration of best-practice management. You will apply management concepts and frameworks to your own organisation to develop practical managerial skills and deliver genuine bottom-line value for your organisation.

Duration:
21 days
Location:
IMI
Next Course:
14/03/2012
Fee (IMI member)Fee (Non member)
€7,750 €11,990

Email us today at programmeadvisors@imi.ie

The programme incorporates 6 core subject areas. Typical subject contents are indicated below. Each subject has a dedicated faculty member responsible for integrated content delivery.

6 core subject areas

Business Strategy
  • Strategic analysis
  • Creating sustainable competitive advantage 
  • Integrating strategy, leadership and change
Business Economics
  • The market and prices
  • The Irish economy and national accounts 
  • Policy, employment and inflation
Organisational Behaviour
  • Leadership, influence, politics and power
  • Motivating groups and teams
  • Culture and change management
Effective Marketing
  • Marketing philosophy and analysis
  • Segmentation, targeting and positioning 
  • Branding strategy
Financial Management
  • Understanding balance sheets, profit and loss
  • Financial strategy and breakeven analysis
  • Using ratio analysis
Human Resource Management
  • Developing best practice HR strategy
  • Evaluating HR processes
  • Leadership and HR

Approach and methodology

In today’s environment, management excellence is the result of more than the talented application of natural skills. To excel, managers must combine broad functional knowledge with an extensive array of analytical, conceptual and social skills.

The philosophy of the IMI Diploma in Management is simple. Each year it provides participants with a comprehensive, practical, and critical overview of best-practice management in a broad range of business areas. Throughout the programme participants are encouraged to apply business concepts and frameworks to their own organisations, to build practical managerial skills and deliver genuine bottom-line value for their organisations.

The Diploma in Management is widely recognised for its innovative approach to learning. Throughout the year, emphasis is placed upon combining classroom teaching with a creative mix of action-learning, class discussion, case study analysis and individual and group activities.

Three Steps to a Masters of Business Award

The IMI’s Master of Business (MoB) is an innovatively designed framework tailored to accelerate your professional development in a uniquely flexible manner. The MoB allows you to combine ‘credit’ for completing certain IMI courses and ultimately earn an internationally recognised, nationally accredited Master of Business qualification.

The Diploma in Management is part of the MoB framework, together with the following Diplomas:

  • Diploma in Business Finance
  • Diploma in Strategic Marketing with Digital Marketing
  • Diploma in Strategic Human Resources Management
  • Diploma in Executive Coaching
  • Diploma in Leadership
  • Diploma in Strategy

In order be conferred with a Master of Business qualification, you must:

Step 1 - Successfully complete any one of the IMI’s suite of diploma programmes.

Step 2 - Successfully complete a second IMI diploma of your choosing.

Step 3- Successfully complete a Business Project (15,000 word dissertation).

These steps can be completed as quickly as three years, or up to five years – whichever suits your personal, work and learning needs best.

As a participant in the Diploma in Management, you will:

  • Develop your understanding of the major management functions
  • Enhance your capability as a contributor to your organisation’s management team
  • Acquire the skills and knowledge required of modern professional managers
  • Be able to analyse and understand the fundamental driving forces of business and the determinants of success
  • Learn the language and thinking behind the best current management practice
  • Develop a deeper understanding of people, their behaviour and the culture of organisations
  • As part of the programme you will have the opportunity to apply your learning directly to areas of interest within your organisation

Faculty

Programme Director - Dr. Simon Boucher, IMI Senior Specialist

Contributors include:

  • Dr Jonathan Westrup, IMI Senior Specialist
  • Dr Kevin Hannigan, Consultant Economist/IMI Associate Faculty
  • Alistair Tosh BA, MBA, IMI Senior Specialist
  • Siobhan McAleer BA, MA, IMI Senior Specialist
  • Tim McCormick BA, MBA, ACA, Financial Consultant / IMI Associate Faculty
  • Fergus Barry BA, MSc, HRM Consultant / IMI Associate Faculty

Entry Requirements

Participants are required to provide evidence of relevant work based learning at a management level and/or should hold a relevant academic qualification at primary degree level.

Who Should Apply?

  • Experienced managers who wish to update and formalise their knowledge of management
  • Experienced functional specialists who wish to broaden their knowledge of management
  • Executives who intend to develop significant professional careers in general management

Accreditation

Successful participants will be awarded the IMI Diploma in Management.

This qualification is accredited and awarded by University College Cork - National University of Ireland, Cork.

The IMI Diploma in Management is academically equivalent to a Postgraduate Certificate (level 9) Minor Award on the National Framework of Qualifications.

By completing this award, you will also earn one-third of the credits required to be awarded the IMI Master of Business qualification.

Details of the IMI’s full range of post-graduate Diploma programmes are available above under the 'Three Steps to a Master of Business Award' section.

Dates

Programme dates are listed in the downloadable brochure.

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