Higher Diploma in Business Management (Baking Industry Training College)

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Learners are required to complete 11 modules.

Academic and Research Skills

This unit aims to develop learners’ academic research and writing skills. Topics include academic English, primary and secondary research, writing and reading strategies, referencing, and crafting research proposal

Business Communication

This unit introduces various communication options available in business context so that students can make appropriate choices in the workplace. Students will gain confidence in their ability to communicate by practising and receiving feedback on business communication skills. Opportunities for improving academic language proficiency are embedded in this unit.

Economics

This unit provides the students with a comprehensive knowledge on how the economy works and how it affects different types of businesses. It covers topics like supply and demand, elasticity, money market and output determination, national economy, unemployment and inflation, economic role of government, international trade, and other related matters.

Human Resource Management

This unit aims to develop learners’ knowledge and understanding of human resources in the workplace. Learners gain knowledge of human resource management theory and link it with organisations’ current human resource management practices.

Financial Decision Making

This unit equips learners with a set of accounting and financial tools that enables them to interpret financial information from variety of sources and to make informed and effective financial decisions that directly impact their company operations and stakeholders within.

Retail Management

This unit provides learners with a basic understanding of retail operations. It aims to equip learners with the knowledge, skills, and techniques to operate the basic functions in physical and online stores.

Digital Marketing

This unit equips learners to understand key aspects of using internet, digital media and marketing technology to achieve the goals of integrated multichannel marketing.

Organizational Behaviour

TIn this unit, learners will develop an understanding of how organizational behaviour, structure, culture, motivation, creativity and leadership impact on an organization’s effectiveness and efficiency.

Strategic Management

This unit provides learners with an understanding of strategic analysis, strategic decision making and strategic processes within and between organisations. The module content combines approaches to strategic management, concepts and frameworks, and issues in strategic management.

Entrepreneurship

This unit facilitates the development of an entrepreneurial mind-set and equips students with necessary cutting-edge knowledge and skills vital for generating value in a knowledge-based economy.

Industrial Attachment

Learners will get to apply the knowledge and skills which they have gained in the classroom in a real work setting. Learners will be deployed as interns in retail or commercial business environment for a period of 6 months. Industrial Attachment is a compulsory and integral part of the course. Should a learner be unable to secure a suitable internship due to circumstances beyond the control of the college, the learner will be required to complete a Project Work instead.