HPAD 104 Public Sector Accounting I
This course intends to expose students to public sector accounting practices. It also focuses on theory of public goods, welfare theories and proceeds to confide the financial and economic role of the government. It also examines the scope and control of public expenditure.
HPAD 105 Principles of Management
This course is intended to introduce the students to the basic management skills with emphasis on its significance in efficiency and effective management practices. The skills required provide learners with modern management thinking paradigm and provide opportunities for furthering one’s leadership skills in the field of public sector management.
HPAD 106 Public Sector Administration II
This is an advanced course to public administration I. The course focuses on creating awareness and importance of effective administrative skills. The course will assist students to understand the critical role of administrative tenets. Covered in the course give areas such as planning, leadership, policy framework and public ethos.
HPAD 107 Introduction to Political Science
The course explores in the nature and scope of political science in action within public institutions. The main focus is on the comprehensiveness of the political ties involved and the relevance of existing theories.
HPAD 108 Labour Relations Management
The course enables students to appreciate the influence and impact of politics of work and tenets of labour relations management. Given the depth and width of public involvement the course provide diverse principles and in calculate a culture of viewing this politics as a recipe for positive contribution to the success of individual instructions. A clear cut understanding of labour issues reduces anticipated conflict that directly impacts on worker productivity.
HRCU 102 Introduction to communication and Computer Application Skills
This course is intended to introduce the student to information and technology with emphasis on its significance to public administration computing systems. Good leadership today, emanate from the ability of students grasping critical skills in computer management and application.
HPAD 110 Public Sector Accounting II
This course is an advanced course, to Public Sector Accounting I. The focus is on in-depth role of accounting for public sector. It dwells on the accounting and financial aspects that have a direct bearing on income and expenditure patterns with the public sector. The control aspect becomes central and core to the whole process.
HPAD 111 Public Policy Analysis
The aim of this course is to capacitate and strengthen the capacity of various managerial levels especially the middle-to-senior managers in policy formulation and implementation, and of course attempts to deepen their knowledge in the policy processing and communication, implementation, evaluation of policy, issues in governance and challenges faced. The strategic issues to be addressed include decentralization, reforms, commercialization and contracting out.
HPAD 211 Public Sector Human Resources Management
This course is intended to provide major management and personal development opportunities and aids human resources practitioners to perform their tasks effectively and efficiently. The course focuses on the people management skills of students and the general management techniques for in key managerial areas in the public sector. Among other things, key issues will be on human resources dimensions, contemporary issues, appraisals and performance management, leadership and interpersonal skills.
HPAD 212 Public Sector Economics
This course introduces students to public sector economic with special biases to policy and practice and the principles governing various economic systems. The role of government in the general regulation and control of the economic will be explored
HPAD 213 Administrative Law
The course is desired to provide the general principles governing administration of public instructions. The focus is on creating employees who are sensitive to the laws governing operations of these institutions in the interest of the public.
HPAD 214 Collaboration Governance
This course will explore issues directly connected to collective governance system. The forms is on creating a collaborative culture through various aspects that encourages desisting from a culture of selfishness in public institution.
HPAD 215 Public Relations Management
The course aims to put theory on public relations into practice. The focus is on creating and moulding individuals, public servants into reputable public officers. Key areas explored in this course are public relations mix, public ethos, presentation skills, image building and interpersonal skills.
HPAD 216 Financial Management
The course focuses on the principles, concepts and techniques used in making financial management decisions. It aims at ensuring that the students understand the concepts and applications behind theoretical models, select the techniques most appropriate to optimize the employment of resources, treasury management function and working capital.
HPAD 217 Performance Management Systems
The course’s objective is to equip students with knowledge and skills of managing performance. The focus is on their ability to give feedback and measurement of performance, included in this course is performance management systems and various performance appraisal systems.
HPAD 218 Intergovernmental Relations
The course intends to impart knowledge and skills on intergovernmental relations. The course’s main focus is on bridging the gap that exists between governments in terms of relationship skills building to enhance both bilateral and multilateral skills.
HPAD 219 Public Sector Leadership and Governance
The course is intended to equip students with modern leadership skills meant to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of public institutions. The major focus areas include nature of leadership in public institutions, modelling, and contemporary leadership practices.
HRCU 201 Research Method and Statistics
The course is intended to equip students with knowledge and skills underpinning research for public institutions. Focus is on creating students who are able to understand the research processing leading to decisions that are more informative.
HPAD 220 Public Sector Marketing Practices
The course focuses on the role of marketing in public institutions, marketing information and Planning processes and quality service provisions. Reduce the marketing mix and service quality aspects and customer strategies.
HPAD 221 Disaster Management
This course is aimed at introducing students to the importance of proper management of disaster situations. Public institutions have a role to play in disaster preparations and hence aspects to be covered will include disaster cycle hazards, vulnerability, emergency, risk, response. Focus is also on major disasters locally and internationally and how these are dealt with.
HPAD 322 Work-Related Learning Action Research
This course is intended to enable students to prepare work related reports. Students will be able to acquire skills which are useful in report framework.
HPAD 323 Work Related Learning Employers’ Assessment
This course is intended to enable students to get practical feedback of work related nature from the employer. The focus is to provide students with an opportunity to reflect on their actual performance.
HPAD 324 Work Related Learning Academic Supervisor Assessment
Obtainable from this report is the general performance of the student as appraised by the supervisor. The report is a feedback tool to student skill enhancement.
HPAD 425 Public Sector Finance Management Systems
The course is intended to equip students with skills of finance management in public sectors. The focus is on strategies and practices adhered to within public institutions. It should also encompass the financial procedures and practices.
HPAD 426 Strategic Management
The objective of the course is to enable students to get hands-on skills and theoretical underpinning on strategic issues such as strategy formulation, implementation and evaluation. It covers concepts and issues in business policy and general management.
HPAD 427 Sustainable Community Management
The course consolidates issues of community management, involvement and participation and the development aspects. The focus is to mould students to clearly understand their role in facilitating community development.
HPAD 428 Project Management
This course equips students with project management skills. The focus is on the framework of project management, project life cycle, nature of tools in projects, monitoring and education, computerization of projects.
HPAD 429 Training and Development
The course aims at enabling students to become training and development gurus I Public Institutions. It involves identification of training needs, program design, evaluation of training and enhancing career path for individual employees.
HPAD 430 Gender and Development
The course intends to expose students to the policies of engendering development paradigm that emerged after the world conference on women in 1975 and occupied a significant space in the collaborations of various institutions. The course provides a useful nexus of gender and development in the local and global context. It also assists students to be able to formulate and influence policies on gender issues.
HPAD 431 Peace and Security
The course aims at introducing students to the conceptual and theoretical framework for peace and security. The focus is on briefing issues of Peace and Security in Africa and world over. Governance that does not bring about peace leads to socio-economic fragmentation and the course is an attempt to instil knowledge and discipline among students.
HPAD 432 Ethics and Corporate Governance
The aim of the course is to provide an understanding of ethical and governance issues in terms of how they have bearing on the performance of an organization. Issues addressed include unethical behaviour vis-à-vis ethical behaviour, social responsibilities, Standards of professional integrity and fairness in dealing with a company’s stakeholders, good corporate governance and the image of the firm.
HPAD 433 e-Government and Information Systems
The course provides students with an opportunity to work with modern information and communication devices and systems. The focus is on creating sophisticated systems that will bring about efficiency and effectiveness.
HPAD 434 Fiscal and Monitory Policy Analysis
The course aims to provide students with knowledge on the operations of central bank and key areas of government. The focus is on interpretation and application of fiscal and monitory policy.
HPAD 435 Poverty and Development Strategies
The course intends to impost skills on how poverty issues can be tackled from a Development Point of view. The focus is on strategy foundation, identification of viable options foe development proposes to alleviate poverty
HPAD 436 Change Management
The course extends the knowledge and skills required to operate in a continuously changing environment. The focus is on ensuring that students become change agents and are able to take change in business environment as an opportunity an opportunity not a threat.
HPAD 437 Macro-Economics
The course aims at imparting skills on management of the macro-economic variables. It seeks to provide a platform of economic aggregates such as national income, investment, savings, taxation, imports, exports, and government expenditure, fiscal and monetary policies.
HPAD 438 Organizational Behaviour
The course aims at including the framework paradigm on behavioural aspects of institutions. The key areas include behaviour theory, models relevant to human productions, group behaviour and inter-group relations.
HPAD 439 Dissertation
The course is a development to give students an opportunity to apply the knowledge gained over the period of study. Students undertake research in areas of their choice to produce a project which has practical solutions.
