Moodle Area for Arabic Placement Tests

*Please note Senior Pupil Cohort are not included in this unit*

This unit is designed to enable learners to gain an understanding of different approaches to managing an organisation in today’s dynamic and complex business environment. It will introduce learners — whether intending to or working in an administrative, commercial or management role — to current management theories and practices to enable them to use these to evaluate organisational effectiveness.

This unit will introduce you to the nature of work organisations, approaches to management and leadership and factors affecting individual and team performance. The unit should provide you with an understanding of the theories behind management, organisation, and employee performance and how you should apply these theories to organisational situations. The basic nature and functioning of work organisations, in general, will be explained and you will examine different approaches that may be used to improve individual and team performance through effective leadership and management. To assist your overall understanding earlier theories and models will be described but concentration will be placed on more modern approaches and ideas that review the management styles and roles regarded as necessary for organisations of the 21st century. The unit will also explain the alternative methods by which work organisations can be structured.

On completion of this unit, you will be able to identify and apply knowledge of organisational, management and leadership theory and practice to a range of given situations.

*This unit is for ALL HNC Business students (including Senior Pupils)*

This unit stresses the importance of avoiding plagiarism and also provides advice on accurate note-taking, referencing and citation. Successful students will receive a certificate of completion.

Study time: about 60 minutes.

Innovation is considered one of the most important aspects for the students to understand. It is accepted as a critical contributor to the development of companies and society at large. The course aims to provide relevant theoretical and practical knowledge and tools to students necessary to understand, anticipate, acquire, use, and manage innovation systems for attaining superior performance and competitiveness in the marketplace.

Furthermore, the course provides a context and introduction to innovation, what it is and how it links to creativity and other business models such as business excellence and organizational learning. The module introduces why organizations innovate, and how innovation can be managed, especially in the service and public sectors. The course is taught through a mixture of lectures, case studies and industry visits.

The lectures will cover a range of areas concerning the management of innovation, including motivations for innovating, how organizations can protect their innovations using intellectual property rights, the nature and organization and management of “research and development” (R&D), the management of creative people, processes and teams, the management of product, service and experience innovations, the adoption and use of “open innovation”, and the adoption and use of frugal innovation (Jugaad). These discussions and industry visits closely complement the topics covered in the lectures to reinforce the ideas and give them a practical application.

*This is a mandatory unit for all international students*

This is section is for students for the student society, this will not be maintained by the college staff. 

This page will have a discussion forum for the students to have a platform to discuss matter that relate to the society.  All the students will have access to this forum and can add a topic in the forum and reply to any conversations.

An up-to-date electronic copy of the Student Handbook, glossary, forms and student information for the current academic year can be found in this section. 

A short video tour of the VLE

Support space for teaching staff of Al-Maktoum College

Example course to demonstrate some of the features of Moodle.

 This unit stresses the importance of avoiding plagiarism and also provides advice on accurate note-taking, referencing and citation. Successful students will receive a certificate of completion.

Study time: about 60 minutes.

Test area -Michelle and Shireen for sampling Big Blue Button