Business Management and Finance Advanced Internship Placement.
International in Scope, Content, and Execution.
COURSE DECRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES
The Jah Kente International - Business Management Advanced Internship Placement (JKI-BMAIP) program is ideal for motivated 11th and 12th grade students who are interested in acquiring and deepening their knowledge of business content, concepts, applications, and tools to assist with business administration and decision-making. Successful students in may gain employment and/or pursue higher education in Business. Therefore BMAPI serves the student’s current or future needs.
In today’s world, business management is a challenging and dynamic discipline that should more than meet the needs of students growing in a complex business environment.
As prospective employees, business leaders, entrepreneurs or social entrepreneurs, students interested in the field need to be confident, creative, competitive, yet compassionate as change agents for business in an increasingly interconnected global marketplace. Therefore, the business management internship is designed to encourage and nurture the development of these attributes. Students examine four interdisciplinary concepts: creativity, change, ethics and sustainability to empower them to explore these concepts from a business perspective.
JKI-BMAIP is customized to develop students’ knowledge and understanding of business management theories, as well as their ability to apply a range of tools and techniques in real life situation at work. Accordingly, conceptual learning is firmly anchored in business management theories, tools and techniques and placed in the context of real-world examples and case studies.
Business management focuses on business functions, management processes, and decision-making in contemporary contexts of strategic uncertainty. Strategic uncertainty is a concept that refers to uncertainty that arises from the complexities and ambiguities of the environment in which the business operates. Companies and organizations exist, operate, compete and develop under these constraining conditions that are characterized by unpredictable, unpreventable factors, and seemingly insignificant or unrelated events that may, nevertheless, have a direct impact on expected business outcomes.
Students examine how business decisions are influenced by factors that are internal as well as external to an organization and how these decisions impact upon a range of internal and external stakeholders.
They learn to analyze, discuss and evaluate business activities at local, national and international levels. The activities cover a range of organizations from all sectors, as well as the socio-cultural and economic contexts in which those organizations operate, including through partnership opportunities to interface with the businesses.
JKI-BMAIP addresses the key characteristics of business organization and environment and the business functions of human resource management, finance and accounts, marketing and operations management. The activities and assignments place emphasis on strategic decision-making and the operational business functions of human resource management, finance and accounts, marketing, and operations management.
Linkages between the topics are central to the program. By exploring the six underpinning concepts (change, culture, ethics, globalization, innovation and strategy), students develop a holistic understanding of today’s complex and dynamic business environment.
The activities encourage students to understand, consider, and appreciate ethical concerns at both local, national, and global levels and to foster the development of relevant and transferable skills, including the ability to: think critically; make ethically sound and well-informed decisions; appreciate the pace, nature and significance of change; think strategically; and undertake long term planning, analysis and evaluation.
The entire program prepares students to be global citizens ready to face up to the challenges and opportunities awaiting them in our constantly changing world.
The objectives are to enable students to:
1. develop as confident, creative and compassionate business leaders, entrepreneurs, social entrepreneurs and as change agents
2. foster an informed understanding of ethical and sustainable business practices
3. explore the connections between individuals, businesses and society
4. engage with decision-making as a process and a skill.
Linkages between the topics are central to the program. By exploring the six underpinning concepts (change, culture, ethics, globalization, innovation and strategy), students develop a holistic understanding of today’s complex and dynamic business environment.
The activities encourage students to understand, consider, and appreciate ethical concerns at both local, national, and global levels and to foster the development of relevant and transferable skills, including the ability to: think critically; make ethically sound and well-informed decisions; appreciate the pace, nature and significance of change; think strategically; and undertake long term planning, analysis and evaluation. The entire program prepares students to be global citizens ready to face up to the challenges and opportunities awaiting them in our constantly changing world.
The objectives are to enable students to:
1. develop as confident, creative and compassionate business leaders, entrepreneurs, social entrepreneurs and as change agents
2. foster an informed understanding of ethical and sustainable business practices
3. explore the connections between individuals, businesses and society
4. engage with decision-making as a process and a skill.
Students may elect to take the Standard Level (SL) or Higher Level (HL) program with specific skills, such as budgeting, cash floor, financial analysis. Both:
encourage a holistic view of the world of business. empower students to think critically and strategically about individual and organizational behavior. promote the importance of exploring business issues from different cultural perspectives enable student to appreciate the nature and significance of change in a local, regional and global context. promote awareness of the importance of environmental, social and ethical factors in the actions of individuals and organizations develop an understanding of the importance of innovation in a business environment
Click the Link below for the Curriculum.
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