Interior Plant Care Course Looking after those plants in the home or office to ensure they grow & produce the best effect for the home or office environment is a skill most of us wish we had. The course helps you to gain these skills & obtain the knowledge needed to ensure your indoor plants thrive. ...

International Business Course The aim of this course is to provide you with an insight into the theories of international trade & investment & the practice of firms operating across international borders. The internationalisation of national economies & business operations, & other international aspects of society have become a major development in the late twentieth century & have triggered off processes which are likely to continue in the new millennium. During your studies of this course, you will enhance your understanding of the processes & mechanisms of internationalisation & their impact on organisations operating in national & international markets. The course will help you to understand developments in the environment that have influenced the internationalisation of business & will enable you to think strategically & develop & design creative & appropriate strategies to respond to international pressures & challenges.   ...

International Business Strategy Course International Business Strategy draws together & applies ideas from many of the disciplines & fields of study which contribute to a broad understanding of business. Some of the ideas may already be familiar to students who have previously studied courses in marketing, economics, management theory or organizational behaviour. Crucially though, through an understanding of strategy & strategic management, we can gain an insight into how these individual disciplines interact. The course is designed for all those intending a business career & for those with an interest in how contemporary organisations operate. Business strategy is not simply the province & responsibility of senior level management decision makers. The ideas which underpin International Business Strategy can be applied at many levels in the business organisation to help ensure that individual business units or departments maintain an effective contribution to the overall success of the business. ...

International Human Resource Management Course For many years, human resource management was seen as the "poor relation" of the business functions. Limited to a low-key administrative role, concerned with employee welfare & payroll administration, or at best a trouble-shooting role concerned with resolving labour-management conflicts, human resource professionals were rarely seen as having any significant role to play in determining the organisation's overall strategy. In the words of Peter Drucker, personnel was the "trash can". How things have changed. Increasingly, managers are now realising that the key resource determining the effectiveness of an organisation is its human resources: its people. As long ago as the late 1970s & early 1980s, North American & European managers were beginning to realise that what made Japanese businesses so different, so superbly competitive, was their approach to managing people. The American management consultants, Peters & Waterman, searching for examples of business excellence in the US, decided that the key lay in the distinctive cultures of their "excellent" businesses. Current debates in strategic management focus on the conditions for the creation of sustainable competitive advantage. It is becoming clear that many of the traditional marketing & product development bases of competitive strategy can be imitated by competitors relatively easily
- the advantage gained through such strategies is often simply not sustainable. This is less the case with human resource management. The way an organisation treats its staff, an organisation's culture & its approach to teamwork & innovation are all potentially distinctive & value-creating characteristics that have the potential to create competitive advantage. Furthermore, the very idiosyncrasy & social complexity of such characteristics means that once created any advantage is likely to be sustainable simply because competitors will find it difficult to imitate.
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International Travel Industry Studies Course " Ready For Take Off" Do you dream about working in the exciting & challenging Travel Industry? Enrol on our home study International Travel Industry Course & you could be working in the Travel Industry sooner than you think!  Airlines & Travel companies worldwide are constantly in touch with the College eager to recruit our graduates. This course is aimed at candidates who would like to enter the Travel Industry or for experienced Travel Personnel who are currently working in the Industry & would like to work in a different area. This course will help open many doors in the following areas: Cabin Crew Passenger Service Reservation Sales Travel Agent Tour Operator Overseas Rep Cruising Positions Ferry Positions  ...

Introduction to Bookkeeping Course Bookkeeping is the activity of keeping accurate records of all movements of money or of things with value that take place in a particular business or organisation. The only qualities a would-be bookkeeper needs are some common sense, a logical mind, the ability to write neatly & the ability to do simple arithmetic accurately
- & nowadays most arithmetic is done on a calculator! All businesses use the same system of bookkeeping which has its own built-in self checking methods to make sure that it is done accurately. Once you have learnt the system, you are just as able to keep the books of a large multi-million pound corporation as you are able to keep the books of a small one-man business
- the only difference is the amount of work involved. This course is designed to teach you the basic rules of book-keeping in easy stages so that you gradually build up your knowledge & confidence & eventually achieve complete mastery of the subject at this level. More importantly, you will be able to handle your own accounting records, or those of an employer, in a practical & professional manner. Each lesson deals with a related group of topics. These can be studied one at a time or in one session, according to your personal situation
- how much time you have & how much you feel that you can cope with in one session. The course is designed for you to study at your own pace. You don't have to rush to keep up with a class or wait for a class to catch up with you. At the end of each lesson, there is a test covering all the topics of the lesson together which your college tutor will mark & return to you. A lot of people imagine that book-keeping is complicated & difficult to learn. As you will soon discover on this course, it is in fact extremely straightforward & logical. It's also very interesting because it deals with the lifeblood of any business
- money!



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Introduction to Construction Management Course The present trend is for construction firms to grow & their activities are becoming more complex. The ratio of manager to workers has increased, & there are more specialists, & many more rules & procedures. The roles are more tightly defined, & external controls have increased. Managers require more skills & more information to be able to cope with these changes. In large organisations, the days of an individual manager running all the affairs of the concern are finished. The efficient organisation of big business now requires a co-ordinated team effort. Learning the basic skills & knowledge of construction is vital to anyone wishing to enter the construction industry or wanting to ensure that a project they are about to start or are planning to oversee will benefit from this course. ...

Introduction to Marketing Management Course Marketing has a key functional role as the only part of the organisation which has proactive contact with customers; it is the bridge to the customer & the consumer. This is the aspect of marketing which most people recognise, & which can be thought to be marketing's sole role. But unless marketers take an active part at corporate level it is unlikely that the organisation as a whole will have a customer focus. A major role for marketing management is therefore to encourage & reinforce a marketing orientation that permeates every sector of the organisation. At corporate level any organisation has a relationship with its environment - the need to manage this relationship should be obvious, but unfortunately this realisation only came to many British firms in the take-over battles of the 1970s when they found that although their brands might be well known the organisation itself was not. Corporate managers quickly came to realise the need to use marketing's core skills to market the organisation as well as its products. After participating in this course, you should be able to: determine the role & effectiveness of marketing in given circumstances identify the key stages in the corporate planning process establish management objectives use key marketing terms correctly ...

Introduction to Payroll Systems Course This introductory payroll systems course provides students with the foundational knowledge & understanding of operations relating to the basic calculations & preparation of a payroll. Through this course students will understand payroll processes, specifically payroll procedures & the skills involved in performing routine & some non-routine payroll tasks. The payroll systems introductory course will enable students to identify employees’ pay variations & entitlements & make calculations in relation to gross & net pay. Students will also understand the importance of accuracy & security in performing payroll tasks. ...