Diploma in Business Management

Course Description

A three-year course designed to equip the trainee with relevant knowledge, skills and attitudes to enable them to perform administrative duties as a middle-level manager in an organization.

Course Topics

The diploma in Business Management is packed into three modules:

Units:

  1. Communication skills
  2. Life skills
  3. Information communication technology
  4. Entrepreneurship
  5. Financial accounting 
  6. Economics 
  7. Business law

Units:

  1. Cost accounting 
  2. Principles and practices of management
  3. Supply and transport management
  4. Quantitative techniques
  5. Commercial and administrative law
  6. Office administration and management
  7. Marketing management
  8. Business plan

Units:

  1. Managerial accounting
  2. Organization theory and behaviour
  3. Human resource management
  4. Financial management
  5. Labour and industrial relations
  6. Research methods
  7. Research project

Career Opportunities

Graduates can secure employment in managerial and administrative roles in the county and national governments as well as in the private sector.

Entry requirements

A trainee for this course should have the following minimum requirements:

Passed relevant craft course in Business management.

Or

Passed Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) with an average grade of C plain.

Or

Equivalent qualification as determined by Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC).