Micro-Certification from MBA (Sustainable Business)

This course focuses on the foundations of organisational behaviour and management, emphasising understanding the people management issues students are likely to encounter in a business context in the pursuit of individual, team and organisational goals. The course exposes students to the core functions a manager generally takes part in including leading, motivating, planning, decision making, organising, negotiating, mentoring, monitoring and influencing. The topics covered in this course are designed to develop a student’s skills in becoming a better manager of oneself, teams and organisations. These skills are further demonstrated in other courses offered in the program through team and individual projects and assignments and specifically in the Action-Based Learning course.

The course is designed to improve your accounting and financial knowledge to make better business decisions and to enhance business performance in a competitive environment. The course covers topics that will enable you to analyse company financials and make recommendations to matters related to cost-management, capital expenditure and valuation. In addition, you will be equipped with the latest financial tool-kit such as value based management and corporate valuation.

The purpose of this course is to improve students’ analytical skills. The course will provide students with the knowledge and skills to apply the fundamental and advanced quantitative and qualitative techniques to analyse and develop solutions to contemporary business challenges. At the beginning of the course, students will learn the foundation of analytical tools. The students will apply them to analyse real-world issues. The course will conclude with the challenges and opportunities of big data. In addition, this course is a preparatory course for candidates to undertake their Project Paper and other assignments.

This course provides students with a sufficient grounding in the core disciplines of marketing strategy development and how to apply them. Furthermore, students in this course are exposed to concepts and tools of strategic marketing. This course equips students with the practical concepts and tools for analysing market opportunities and company capabilities to develop marketing strategies that guide market selection, development of customer value proposition, and the use of innovation and digital marketing for brand positioning and communication.

Entrepreneurial vision has led to the majority of advancements over the last decade. This course discusses the evolution and dimensions of entrepreneurship as they advance into start-ups and how they recognise opportunity. Beyond the creativity and ideation, the course covers execution including financing ventures and using sustainable business practice to maximise profits.

This course provides students with a sufficient grounding in the core disciplines of business strategy development and how to apply them. Students examine the strategic concepts and tools that facilitate understanding of the challenges and opportunities of the business environment, strategy formulation, implementation, and evaluation. This course equips students with the practical concepts and tools for analysing organisational strengths and weaknesses as well as market opportunities and threats.

The course is designed to prepare the students in the field of sustainability management and investment. The main focus of the course is to provide a strong understanding on the sustainability concepts and how firms can integrate its practices in their business decisions.  The course will also expose the students to cutting-edge policy that can help firms to comply or support sustainability agenda.

Students are expected to appreciate the environment of the economic and business life space in which the provisioning process makes sense to members of society. The decisions and behaviour of individuals and firms as economic agents and their rationales are provided within the framework of economic thinking and sensibilities. Students will be exposed to values and worldview that underlie the norms and expected behaviour of business entities in the pursuit of their purpose and goals defined differently under different environments and worldviews.

This course critically examines the socio-economic challenges facing communities and nations globally and assesses how Islamic finance instruments such as zakat, sadaqah, waqf and takaful may be used with modern technology to alleviate hardship and develop communities, in line with the Maqasid al Shariah and the UN goals for sustainable development.

This course covers the aspect of ethics and professionalism that are critical for developing leadership, governance and management skills. It includes understanding key aspects and applying concepts, principles, codes and standards of ethics and professionalism for effective governance and sustainability of organisations as corporate citizens.

The course exposes students to the halal supply chain. Students are exposed to the unique components of the halal economy and its value chain in a globalised market. Issues in integrating sustainability in supply chains are covered, with specific reference to the halal ecosystem.

This course is designed to build competency of managing the organisation’s human assets on the path of sustainability, maintaining and managing it, and achieving competitive advantage through people. The course covers people management processes, techniques, issues and challenges in organisations in their transformational journey.