Performance Management

Total Quality Management

Course Code: 7109

Instructor: Mr. Neral Bughrara

Description:

Total Quality Management is one of the main courses at the Faculty of Business Administration. The course starts with giving general historical information about the development of the concept of quality and then moves to go deeper in explaining the components of Total Quality Management and its importance for creating competitive advantages.

The learning approach adopted in this course focuses mainly on students through online discussions, presentations, and assignments.

Weekly meetings are scheduled according to the time-table of lectures every week.

Project Management

Course Code: 7003

Instructor: Mr. Khaled Alhashimi

Description:

This course provides students with a fundamental of project management, focusing on project Initiation, Planning, Execution and Control. A discussion of the different types of projects, the project life cycle as well as the intricacies of defining and monitoring project resources, cost, scope and schedule – through work breakdown structures, the precedence diagramming method and earned value analysis among other tools – is included.

This course is designed according to similar typical One-Semester Course teaching for level of Business Bachelor students at Project Management Institute (PMI).

Entrepreneurship & Small Business Management

Course Code: 7108

Course description.

The entrepreneurship course covers the foundations of entrepreneurship and new venture creation for the entrepreneur. Also, it combines a solid theoretical foundation with a practical step-by-step approach to the process of entrepreneurship. This course is delivered to students by lectures, presentations. But, due to the COVID-19 Pandemic and the necessity for social distancing, the course has been delivered on online means, these include: PowerPoint presentations that are being posted on the Moodle with audio explanation, Interactive What’s app groups and the like communication means for discussion after each class, and Project work.

The following topics are covered within the course: Introduction, Risk and an Entrepreneurial Behavior, Innovation, Opportunity and the creative pursuit of innovative ideas, Pathways to entrepreneurial ventures, strategic Entrepreneurial Growth, global Opportunities for Entrepreneurs, sources of capital for entrepreneurial Ventures, measuring performance for entrepreneurial ventures, developing a sustainable business plan, legal and regulatory challenges For entrepreneurial ventures, case studies: 50 examples of corporations that failed to innovate.




Leadership Theory

Course Code: 7115

Description:


Leadership is often referred to as the ability to influence people toward achieving a goal. The purpose of the course is to bridge the gap between the often simplistic popular approaches to leadership, and the more abstract theoretical approaches presented by numerous writers and practitioners in the field.  This course helps students to understand the terms and concepts related to leadership theories and to have a good knowledge of leadership types. Also, demonstrates the strategic role of leadership in creating and enhancing a firm’s competitive advantages,  how to build leadership skills needed for different institutions, Compare and contrast leadership styles in developed, developing and transitional countries , also builds evaluation and synthesizing skills in solving real-world leadership problems in different contexts.

Teaching strategies to be used to develop the required knowledge are lectures, so the students are given readings, discuss cases, have interactive assignments, case analysis, projects, and presentations.

Topics to be covered are an introduction to leadership, trait and skills approaches to leadership, motivation(Art or Science), behavioral approach to leadership, situational approach to leadership and contingency theories, the path‐goal theory of Leadership, leader‐member exchange theory, transformational and authentic leadership, servant & adaptive leadership, psychodynamic approach, ethics & team leadership, gender, culture and leadership.