Postgraduate Certificate in Strategic Management

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Each course ends with the practical project which encompasses several techniques and methods used through various sections in the course. Students are strongly advised to carefully go through the final practical project to get more understanding on how different tools/methods or techniques can be combined.

Strategic Management

• Introduction: the World of Strategic Management
• The Evolution of Management Thinking
• What is your Strategy Strength?
• Defining Strategic Management
• Strategy Formulation
• Are You Fit for Managerial Uncertainty?
• The Strategic Management Process
• Formulating Corporate-Level Strategy
• Formulating Business-Level Strategy
• Why should you be concerned about Functional Level Strategy?
• Why is Global Strategy Important?
• Global Strategies
• Strategy Execution
• Does Goal Setting Fit Your Management Style?
• Planning for a Turbulent Environment

Organizational Behavior

• Module 1 – Introduction To Organizational Behavior
  1. What Is Organisational Behavior
  2. Disciplines Contributing To OB
  3. Main Approaches To Management
  4. Hawthorne Studies
  5. Parkinson´s Law Problem
• Module 2 – Individual In Organization
  1. Attitudes
  2. Behavior Follows Attitudes
  3. The Impact Of Dissatisfaction On Employees
  4. What are Emotions and Moods
  5. The Basic Emotions
  6. Function Of Emotions
  7. Emotional Labor
  8. The Big Five Personality Model
  9. Person-Job Fit and Person-Organization Fit
  10. What is Perception
  11. Working With Perceptions
  12. Attribution Theory
  13. Rational Model, Bounded Rationality and Intuition
  14. Biases and Errors In Decision Making
  15. What Is Motivation
  16. Hierarchy Of Needs Theory
  17. Two Factor Theory
  18. McClelland´s Theory Of Needs
  19. Self Determination Theory
  20. Self-Efficiacy Theory
  21. Equity Theory and Organizational Justice
  22. Expectancy Theory
• Module 3 – Groups In Organization
  1. Defining and Classifying Groups
  2. The Five-Stage Model Of Group Development
  3. Group Property 1 – Roles
  4. Group Property 2 – Norms
  5. Group Property 3 – Status
  6. Group Property 4 – Size
  7. Group Decision Making
  8. Groupthink
  9. Teams vs Groups
  10. Types of Teams
• Module 4 – Organization As a Whole
  1. Definition of Power
  2. Bases of Power
  3. Power Tactics
  4. How People Respond To Organizational Politics
  5. Impression Management
  6. Three Views Of Conflict
  7. Conflict Process – Stages I and II
  8. Conflict Process – Stage III
  9. Conflict Process – Stages IV and V
  10. Negotiation

Strategic Leadership

• Section 1: Introduction
• Section 2: Teaching Leaders What to Stop
• Section 3: Leadership is a Contact Sport
• Section 4: Coaching for Behavioral Change
• Section 5: Triggers

This course is presented entirely online. Modules can be completed in your own time and at your own pace. This interactive, supportive teaching model is designed for busy professionals and results in unprecedented certification rates for online courses.

All reading materials for this course will be made accessible to you through the SSBM Online Learning Portal. Notes for each module are often downloadable, and you are able to save your current learning status and continue whenever you like.

Upon successful completion of the certificate you will be awarded with a diploma delivered by SSBM Geneva.