The Postgraduate Diploma in Business Administration (PGDBA) is delivered by LEB via its online learning portal. LEB approved learning centres provide local student support services. The PGDBA consists of 8 modules. All modules are assessed by online assessments. Exemptions are available to those who have a postgraduate or equivalent qualification.
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Project Management
● Examine critically the selective application of specific knowledge to project management and other knowledge to the planning and execution of projects.
● Develop additional skills in the application of project management theory and techniques. -
Human Capital Management
● Develop a critical understanding of current and emerging practices in the management of human capital in organisations.
● Enhance your abilities to increase the contribution of human capital management to long-term corporate success, whatever the specific nature of your managerial role and the industry. -
Marketing Management
● Acquire a firm understanding of the frameworks and concepts of marketing management.
● Acquire the skills to carry out a full situation analysis and use the findings to develop objectives, formulate strategy and develop appropriate marketing plans. -
Managing Business Strategy
● Have an awareness of, and become familiar with, academic theories, frameworks, managerial models and techniques that contribute to business strategic planning and management.
● Be able to critically evaluate and apply appropriate strategic models and techniques which may be relevant when considering students’ own organisations’ or industry strategic development. -
Managerial Accounting
● Ability to critically evaluate the informational content of financial and accounting reports and their use as a tool for appraising corporate performance.
● Develop an understanding of financial planning tools and techniques and the contribution they make to the achievement of an organisation’s core objectives.
● Be able to evaluate the results of financial models used for long-term decision making.
Have confidence in using financial terms and language necessary for effective senior management. -
Managing Operations
● Critical evaluation of the operations management philosophies of "push" and "pull".
● Examination of the practicality of the philosophies of flexibility and agility currently being explored by many large organisations around the world.
● Development of thinking on the manner by which organisations can gain competitive advantage from managing their operations in an innovative and strategic way. -
Financial Management
● Have the financial tools needed to make good business decisions with an emphasis on linking corporate finance to other aspects of corporate strategy.
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Leading Organisation
● Encourage and develop your knowledge, understanding, and skills for strategic leadership of change.
● Know the challenges faced by managers/leaders in seeking to lead through the use of strategic management, the development of managers and employees for major strategic change, and the development of a high-level organisational capacity for innovation and learning.