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Vocational Bachelor | Business Administration

Vocational Bachelor in Business Administration

A deeper vocational and professional pathway: the Diploma plus decision making, communication, change, agile management, quality, planning, performance, crisis management and organizational loyalty, finished with a capstone project and required English. It is not an academic degree.

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Vocational Bachelor in Business Administration

Level

Vocational Bachelor

Training hours

493 training hours

Format

Online, self-paced

Certificate

Verifiable serial number

What you will learn

Skills you can use at work

  • Everything in the Diploma
  • Change, agile and quality management
  • Strategic and operational planning with performance measurement
  • Crisis and work stress management
  • Organizational loyalty, culture and motivation
  • Business English (required) and a capstone project

Who it is for

Team leaders and supervisors who want formal credit for what they do.

Where it fits

At least 300 training hours.

Inside this program

The modules you complete

Business Administration programme (36 training units) (100 hours)
  • Public administration and business administration
  • Operational management processes and functional management
  • Principles of administrative work and effective management
  • Strategic planning, strategic thinking and vision, and the strategic manager
  • The successful businessperson
  • Financial management, working capital and credit management
  • Feasibility studies
  • Small and commercial projects and how to finance them
  • Public relations, meetings and seminars
  • Competitive advantage and marketing strategies
  • The management consultant, organizational management and administrative development
  • Decision making and problem solving
Management Skills (10-day programme) (40 hours)
  • Management: definition, importance and functions
  • Fields of management and management skills
  • Administrative leadership
  • How to influence others
  • Institutional excellence (EFQM)
The Art of Effective Leadership (15 hours)
  • Leadership
  • Management
  • Responsibility and work-completion skills
Integrated Management Skills (6 hours)
  • Planning, organizing and team building
  • Time management and effective communication
Economic Intelligence (6 hours)
  • Characteristics of economic intelligence
  • Objectives of economic intelligence
Decision Making and Problem Solving (15 hours)
  • Decision making
  • Problem solving
  • Methods of decision making and problem solving
Effective Communication Skills in the Workplace (12 hours)
  • Communication skills
  • Stages of the communication process
  • How to develop communication skills
Change Management in Organizations (15 hours)
  • Change and change management
  • Sources and forces of organizational change
  • Managing institutional change
Agile Management (25 hours)
  • Concept of agility and flexibility
  • Mechanisms of agility and adaptation
  • Principles of agile project management
  • Applying agile management at scale
  • Performance management
Total Quality Management Applications in the Workplace (15 hours)
  • Concept and principles of total quality
  • Objectives, elements and techniques of TQM
  • Quality strategy through company policy
  • Teams in implementing quality
Total Quality Management Skills (20 hours)
  • What quality is and its basic principles
  • What ISO is
  • Quality assurance and improvement
Strategic and Operational Planning (21 hours)
  • What strategic planning is
  • Strategic planning mechanisms
  • Introduction to operational planning
Planning Practitioner (23 hours)
  • What planning is
  • Personal planning
  • How to prepare plans
  • Steps of strategic planning
  • Operational planning
Strategic Planning and Performance Measurement (15 hours)
  • What strategic planning is
  • Strategic planning mechanisms
  • Performance measurement
Crisis and Work Stress Management (20 hours)
  • Crisis concepts, stages and sources
  • Types and outcomes of crises
  • Work stress: causes, symptoms and coping
  • Handling difficult situations
Job Loyalty and Satisfaction (25 hours)
  • Job satisfaction behavior
  • Organizational belonging and loyalty
  • Organizational conflict and its management
  • Organizational culture
  • The learning organization
  • Human motivation and incentives
Capstone project (20 hours)
  • An applied project in your own workplace, reviewed against clear criteria
English for Beginners (32 grammar units) (100 hours)
  • English alphabet and pronunciation
  • Parts of speech and types of sentences
  • The verbs to be, to do and to have
  • Nouns, articles and pronouns
  • Making questions and negatives
  • Simple, continuous and perfect tenses
  • Modal verbs and imperatives
  • Comparing adjectives and adverbs
  • Passive and active voice
  • Prepositions and question tags
  • Conditional sentences and reported speech

Total: 493 training hours. Training hours are the instructional hours of each training kit or designed curriculum, not academic credit hours.

The ladder

CertificateOne skill area, job-readyDiplomaCertificates stacked into a profileVocational BachelorA deeper vocational pathwayExecutive MasterBy applicationExecutive PhDBy application

Your path

Every credential is a step, not an end point

Hours you complete here count towards the next level in the same field. Study one program now, add more later, and keep what you have already earned.

Learn, practise, prove

How you move through it

  1. 01

    Enrol and start

    Send the short enrolment form. We confirm by email and give you access.

  2. 02

    Study at your pace

    Work through short modules online. Pause and return as life requires.

  3. 03

    Practise and be assessed

    Quizzes after each module, a final assessment and practical tasks where the program needs them.

  4. 04

    Earn a verifiable certificate

    Receive a certificate with a unique serial number that anyone can check on this website.

Certificate recognition notice

Luminary International University offers vocational and professional certifications only. Its Certificates, Diplomas and Vocational Bachelor, Executive Master and Executive PhD pathways are vocational and professional qualifications, not academic degrees, and cannot be compared with, or used in place of, academic qualifications. Luminary does not operate under, or hold approval from, any ministry or department of higher education, including in the United States. Its certificates are not intended for academic equivalency, credit transfer or admission to academic programs.

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FAQ

Questions about this program

Do I need prior experience?

Not for Certificate programs. Tell us about your background and we will confirm the best starting point.

How long does it take?

493 training hours. Because it is self-paced, your calendar time depends on how many hours you can give each week.

Is there a study plan?

Yes. Modules are short and ordered, so you can plan a few hours each week and track your progress.

What do I receive?

A certificate with a unique serial number, listed on the verification page, once you complete the assessments.

Is this an academic degree?

No. It is a vocational and professional certification for career advancement.

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