OFFICE MANAGEMENT OPTION
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Option Aims/Objectives & Careers
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The Office Management Option is intended to provide students with a 
broad based business education and training in administrative skills 
to meet the growing demand for professionally trained office 
managers.  It aims at producing a generalist with marketable skills 
who can fit into large-sized as well as small-sized companies.

In essence, this option prepares graduates to work as administrators, 
office managers in charge of administrative services, and personal 
assistants to chief executives.  They are expected to manage people, 
equipment and resources.  They should be practical problem solvers 
and effective communicators who know the basics of work procedures 
and can cross boundaries and work between functional areas, e.g. 
personnel, records control, purchasing and work/information 
processing.

Students enrolled in this Option will:

1)  study the management concepts, the nature of business 
    organization and its functional areas and develop competence 
    required for their specific career choice.

2)  study the theory and practice of information systems and 
    administrative office management in order to understand the 
    design of practical office systems.

3)  gain an appreciation of the potential and limitations of the 
    computer and are given an opportunity to use electronic office 
    equipment in order to understand the capabilities and benefits of 
    automation.

4)  develop conceptual and adaptive skills to handle decision-making 
    situations and cope with the changing demands in a complex and 
    dynamic environment.


Option Curriculum
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The study plan is as follows:

Year 1  Principles of Accounting, Introduction to Business, 
	Principles of Management, Principles of Economics, 
	Mathematics and Statistics for Business, Computer 
	Applications in Business, English for Business, Communication 
	in Modern Chinese, and Religion & Philosophy subject.

Year 2  Principles of Law, Organizational Theory & Behaviour, 
	Business Communications, Principles of Human Resources 
	Management, Financial Management, Management Information 
	Systems, Office Systems and Procedures, Religion & Philosophy 
	subject, and two other Elective subjects.

Year 3  Strategic Management, Project, Business Telecommunication 
	Systems, Company Secretarial Practice, Managerial 
	Communications, Small Business Management, Automated Office 
	Systems, Seminar in Office Management, one of the following 
	subjects: Hong Kong Economy, Marketing Management, Management 
	Research Methods, and one other Elective subject.


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