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FORGE Post-Secondary Scholarship Fund - Kikassa - September 2009

posted 04/06/10 16:47:50 by

i – SCHOOL ACTIVITIES

At the beginning of this month, I went on mid term break for two weeks, from 1st to 15th September. The two week break was very busy with a bunch of assignments. I resumed class on 16th September, 2009. I attended and really enjoyed all the lectures.

During lectures this month we have covered different topics in the following modules:

  • Business Administration;
    • Finance; the need for short, medium and long-term finance, Sources of finance, Techniques of investment appraisal. .
    • People at work; the role of human resource management in the organization, human resource planning.
    • Stages in human resources planning; corporate objectives, demand for human resources, supply of labor, operational plans.
    • Meeting Human Resources requirements; recruitment, training and development, promotion and redeployment, pay and productivity, retirement and redundancy.
    • Recruitment and selection; the aim of recruitment, the legal environment, legislation and requirements regarding recruitment, recruitment policies and procedures, recruitment policy statement, questions to be addressed while hiring people.
    • Situational factors for recruitment; internal and external recruitment process, alternatives to recruitment.
    • Selection methods and procedures; types of selection devices, types of tests, interviews, checking of references, physical examination.
    • Elements of marketing.

    I enjoy the most this module. It really gives a clear vision of what exactly human resources management is in an organization. There are things that I used to do while working for FORGE, without knowing any theory of them, and sometimes do wrong. But now through this module, I get a clear vision of what I was doing and correct myself on some of the things I was doing wrong.

  • Microeconomics;
    • Supply; supply schedule, equilibrium.
    • Disequilibrium.
    • Comparative statistics.
    • Elasticity; demand elasticity, price elasticity of demand, arc elasticity, total revenue.
  • Financial Accounting;
    • The conceptual framework
    • The types of economic decision for which financial statement are likely to be used.
    • Scope
    • Qualitative characteristics of financial statement.
    • Non current assets.
    • Intangible assets.
    • Goodwill.
  • Information systems and theory;
    • Case study and presentation
  • Managing Communication and professional development;
    • Management of knowledge in an organization; how do managers plan the future of the organization. And for managers to plan, they need knowledge.
    • Decision making; how a manager can make a good decision.
    • Presentations on different topics.

    ii – PERSONAL ACTIVITIES

    • I went to church on Sundays.
    • I attended night classes with Audrey.
    • I attended personal meetings with Audrey.
    • I entertained myself with some of my hobbies: going for a walk with friends, watching TV and movies, going for a run…
    • I did also some of the daily work: going to the market to buy food and prepare my meal.

    iii – MISCELLANEOUS

    I am doing fine as well as well my family in the camp. Many thanks and may good bless you.

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