Program Title: Extended Diploma in Public Policy, Strategic Management and Leadership (QCF)
Course Level: 7
Total Credits: 140
GLH (Guided Learning Hour): 1400
Introduction
The course lays a strong emphasis on management of businesses and organizations in different geographical and cultural context. The program relates to management of resources encompassing human, financial, and technological assets and natural resources, and thus, enable them to relate to management as a function that coordinates the efforts of people to accomplish goals and objectives by using available resources efficiently and effectively.
The course particularly takes a note of the management of 21st century that has been shifted to emerging management theories and innovative practices relating to non-profits and to government: such as public administration, public management, and educational management. Further, management programs related to civil-society organizations have also spawned programs in non-profit management and social entrepreneurship.
Target Learners
The APR Level 7 Extended Diploma in Public Policy, Leadership and Management are designed for senior managers and social scientists seeking to develop themselves as leaders and managers, who recognise they must satisfy various stakeholders.
Apart from the course’s core emphasis on the management the course attaches a strong priority to social science as an academic discipline with a particular emphasis on its sub-disciplines such as economics, political science, demography and sociology.
We expect our learners to make the best use of resources, understand the need to innovate and optimise performance. These aspiring learners may also have to advance arguments for change, construct business cases, lead change implementation and evaluate the impact of that change.
As an academic discipline, public policy brings in elements of many social science fields and concepts, including economics, sociology, political economy, program evaluation, policy analysis, and public management, all as applied to problems of governmental administration, management, and operations. At the same time, the study of public policy is distinct from political science or economics, in its focus on the application of theory to practice
Benefits for Learners
▶ Learners will know how to use an enquiry led evidence based approach to develop his or her leadership and management capability
▶ Learners will be able create quantitative designs approach as social phenomena using quantifiable evidence, and also may be able to rely on statistical analysis of many cases (or across intentionally designed treatments in an experiment) to create valid and reliable general claims.
▶ Learners will be able to develop, implement and evaluate high-level, strategic, business cases in a wide range of social contexts
▶ Learners will be able to create qualitative designs emphasizing on the understanding of social phenomena through direct observation, communication with participants, or analysis of texts, and may stress contextual and subjective accuracy over generality.
▶ The learner will also be able to combine quantitative and qualitative approaches as part of a multi-strategy design thus would be able to use a wide range of measurement techniques such as questionnaires, field-based data collection, archival database information and laboratory-based data collections, etc.