Bachelor of Commerce Honours in Business Management

To provide learners in possession of a Bachelor of Commerce degree with advanced knowledge and skills about various technical aspects of management sciences in order to promote sustainable growth and development and maximise prosperity in all sectors of the economy and society.

To develop competent leaders in the management sciences with advanced applied fundamental and generic cross-functional technical knowledge and skills to steer sustainable development, growth and prosperity in the most appropriate direction.

To provide students who want to enrol for more specialised studies in these disciplines, with a sound academic and research base from which to do so.

Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL)

• Access may be gained to the qualification through the Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL).

Entry Requirements

• Bachelor of Commerce, Level 7.

1. Read, interpret and apply advanced and more technical management related literature and teach oneself from source material.
2. Show an advanced understanding of the use of scientific approaches and research methods in the acquisition of scientific management related knowledge (e.g. the importance of using advanced and more complex research methodologies).
3. Identify and solve complex management problems in a critical and creative way.
4. Work effectively with others as a member of a senior management team in the private, developmental and public sectors.
5. Organise and manage oneself and one's personal activities responsibly and effectively.
6. Collect, analyse, organise and critically evaluate more advanced and technically more complex management related information.
7. Communicate more advanced and technically more complex management related issues effectively, using advanced visual, mathematical and or language skills in the modes of oral and or written persuasion.
8. Use advanced technical management related science and technology effectively and critically, showing responsibility towards the environment and interests of others.
9. Demonstrate advanced and technical understanding of the world as a set of related systems by recognising that management related problem solving contexts do not exist in isolation.
10. Understand and apply a range of advanced, technical management related techniques, procedures and experimental approaches required in the different specific programmes leading up to this qualification.
11. Apply more advanced and technical more complex management related knowledge and practical skills to address theoretical and practical management problems.
12. Learn and apply appropriate lessons from these more complex experiences in order to solve technical management related problems in such a way that sustainable developmental outcomes are ensured.

Demonstrate sound understanding of

• The latest advances in theoretical explanations and modelling.
• The technical bodies of knowledge.
• More extensive practical experiences and skills related to the core technical aspects of the relevant management related subject matter in one or more of the chosen fields.

Demonstrate the ability to

• Manage business organisations effectively and efficiently at advanced and technically specialised levels, in order to maximise profits.
• Manage advanced and technically specialised utilisation of human resources of organisations effectively and efficiently to improve the human capital of such organisations.
• Participate in the advanced and technically specialised management of the supply chain in organisations.
• Manage advanced and technically specialised aspects of public and development sector organisations effectively and efficiently in their pursuance of the public interest.

Integrated Assessment

• Integrated Assessment takes place by way of a variety of procedures including practically orientated cross-disciplinary individual and group assignments, simulations, workplace assessments, written and oral presentations, tests and examinations.