This course introduces students to the essential features of employment law. An attempt has been made to achieve a balance between the academic, conceptual treatment of the subject and a practical approach. Main areas of study covers: contract of employment, employer’s liability, trade unions and industrial relations. It seeks to develop analytical and practical approaches to legal issues concerning employment law.
Principles of Government focuses on the institutions, methods and procedures of governance and that reconfiguration with the advent of globalisation. This introductory course exposes students to broad subject areas such as democracy, the state, nations and globalizations, political culture and legitimacy, representation and voting, constitutions and the Law and Judiciaries, as well as the Westminster Whitehall Model (Comparative Approach), Political Executives, Policy and performance, bureaucracies and accommodation and power sharing.
A survey of the quantitative tools, which are useful in the managing a modern public sector organization are introduced in the form of decision making analysis, queuing theory, inventory management, simulation, work study and system analysis and design.
- Teacher: Richard Knight
Work engineering has undergone a complete metamorphosis since the seminal scientific study of work by Fredrick W. Taylor. In the 21st century work is increasing being organised around terms. Furthermore, governments in developing countries access developmental finance which required them to implement info structure programmes in a project mode. Project management exposes students to the rudiment of project scheduling, project implementation, project evaluation and their context in development planning.
This course explores the realm of government’s accounting structure and practices. The sources of government’s finance and the policies to be followed in the appropriation of government funds are examined. The internal controls employed to safeguard these funds and the regulations to be followed by those in public sector accounting are highlighted. It also exposes students to the computerized accounting systems implemented by government in its quest to upgrade public sector accounting and reporting.
An introductory examination of concepts and theories of public sector management will be stressed as well as a survey of strategies of negotiation and conflict resolution, stress management, time management and change management.