Information from Data

If you're new to management, or you need to develop your managerial abilities and understanding, the Professional Certificate in Management is for you. It provides a broad-based, practical introduction to the key ideas, techniques and overall competencies you need in order to manage effectively and productively in modern organisations in any part of the world.

The emphasis is on your own professional development. Everything you study is related to the management roles and responsibilities you exercise in the various functional areas of your company or organisation.

All the elements of the programme — study texts, activities and assignments, online resources, and personal and group support — ensure that you can immediately apply newly learned skills, knowledge and techniques in very practical ways. You can build on your experience and make direct links to your management development needs wherever you are in the world, whatever the size of your organisation and whether it is in the commercial, public or voluntary sector.

• Session 1 Analysing Data
• Introduction
• 1.1 Tabulation
• Comparing alternatives
• Systematic data recording
• Method 1
• Method 2
• Method 3
• Analysing survey data
• Discrete and continuous data
• Cumulative frequency distribution
• 1.2 Aggregation
• 1.3 Averaging
• The arithmetic mean
• The mode
• The median
• Review of averages
• Averaging from frequency distributions
• 1.4 Measures of Spread
• Range
• Standard deviation
• 1.5 PC Activities
• Summary and objectives
• Session 2 Graphs and Charts
• Introduction
• 2.1 Bar Charts
• The component, or stacked, bar chart
• 2.2 Line Diagrams
• Strata charts
• 2.3 Pie Charts
• 2.4 Scatter Diagrams
• 2.5 PC Activities
• Summary and objectives
• Session 3 Analysing Relationship Between Data
• Introduction
• 3.1 Correlation
• 3.2 Regression Analysis
• 3.3 PC Activities
• Summary and objectives
• Session 4 Handling and Using Information
• Introduction
• 4.1 How to Manage the Processing of Data
• Information security
• Data into information
• 4.2 Using Quantitative Information in Reports
• Summary and objectives
• Appendix 1 Dealing With Numbers and Indices
• A1.1 Numbers
• Number representation
• Operations with numbers
• Rounding and truncating
• Fractions
• Basic algebra
• A1.2 Indices
• Numbers and powers
• Exponential form
• Appendix 2 Statistical Formulae
• A2.1 Mean
• A2.2 Mode
• A2.3 Median
• A2.4 Range
• A2.5 Inter-quartile range
• A2.6 Standard deviation
• A2.7 Correlation coefficient
• A2.8 Linear regression

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