This is a three-unit core and introductory course that examines the principles, structures, and processes that shape global economic governance. Primarily reviews economic activities with a brief inventory of key topics from both microeconomics and macroeconomics. This course also introduces the basics of global economic governance, exploring theoretical foundations, key institutions, challenges facing the international economic system. It covers key concepts in economic warfare and sanctions, the formation of economic blocks and alliances, and the basics of public financial management, to include military spending.
| Credit Unit(s): | 3 |
Principles of Management presents an introduction to management concepts and highlights the multidisciplinary nature of the management field. This course emphasizes the fundamentals of management, centered around the key principles of planning, organizing, leading, and controlling within a military context. It explores various theories and principles, along with their practical applications to the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and its branches. This knowledge is essential for young military leaders as they strive to manage the resources of the Army, Air Force, Navy, and AFP both effectively and efficiently.
| Credit Unit(s): | 3 |
This course covers the nature, scope, functions, and importance of operations management in the organization. The purpose is to provide students with the tools to deal with the quantitative aspects of design and analysis of operations management. This course will focus on the study of scientific techniques for decision-making in military organizations and government.
| Credit Unit(s): | 3 |
Resource Management equips cadets with essential foundational knowledge pertinent to the administration of organizational resources within a military unit. This course is designed to prepare cadets for their future responsibilities as managers of resources, ensuring they possess the requisite skills and understanding to effectively oversee and optimize resource allocation and utilization.
| Credit Unit(s): | 3 |
The course encompasses a comprehensive examination of leadership theories and decision-making models, alongside relevant principles and practices. It operates on the premise that leadership significantly influences decision-making behaviors within organizations and posits that one of the primary responsibilities of a leader is to make decisions.
| Credit Unit(s): | 3 |
This course is structured to consolidate and expand upon existing knowledge in research methodology and statistical tools pertinent to research practices. It offers participants exposure to a diverse array of conceptual, methodological, and statistical skills that are likely to be encountered during the completion of a thesis and in future research endeavors and professional applications.
| Credit Unit(s): | 3 |
The environments in which organizations operate are characterized by unprecedented change driven by rapidly emerging technologies, information overload, evolving values, lifestyles, attitudes, and significant social and civil challenges. Effective leaders must either take a proactive stance towards change or risk being subject to it. This course aims to analyze organizational change through a complex and diverse amalgamation of theories, concepts, and data. Course content is derived from the fields of behavioral science, business, management, and military doctrine. Participants will have the opportunity to critically evaluate the successes, failures, and various dilemmas faced by modern organizations in both the private and public sectors, thereby gaining a deeper understanding of the causes, implications, and potential actions and strategies that leaders may adopt in response to organizational change.
| Credit Unit(s): | 3 |
This course introduces research methods to the cadets. It provides research applications across liberal and professional studies in preparation for their future service. It will introduce both qualitative and quantitative research approaches, which will incorporate research designs, measurement analysis, ethics, and citations in both approaches.
| Credit Unit(s): | 3 |
The course outlines the key attributes that define a project, the steps involved in the project management process, and the various factors that influence it. It covers the fundamental principles of project management, including concepts from the five process groups: initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, and closing. The course places particular emphasis on essential areas such as integration, scope, time, cost, quality, human resources, communications, risk, procurement, and stakeholder management.
| Credit Unit(s): | 3 |
This course will enable the cadets to apply the knowledge, skills, and attitudes which they gained and developed from Methods of Research. Moreover, this course will enable them to enhance their ability to engage in independent research on issues and concerns arising from Management and apply the same in research.
| Credit Unit(s): | 3 |
The course is a 3-unit subject that introduces cadets to the fundamental principles and practices needed to help the organization achieve its long-term goals and remain relevant to the dynamic state of the societal environment.
| Credit Unit(s): | 3 |
This course serves as a continuation of Thesis Writing I, placing significant emphasis on the demonstration of the knowledge, skills, and attitudes requisite for producing a comprehensive final output. This output includes both an oral defense and a written presentation of the completed thesis paper.
| Credit Unit(s): | 3 |