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ITIOS
Behaviour and Communications in
Organisations
10 credit points
No. of hours per week: four hours
Assessment: oral presentations, research project
Subject aims
To provide students with:
(a) an understanding of the nature and importance of
communication, interpersonal skills and group
development to organisational management;
(b) to develop students' interpersonal skills and skills as
team members;
(c) to allow students to experiment with various techniques,
theories and approaches to communications and
management through the use of experientialteaching
techniques;
(d) to prepare students to appreciate the context of work
and their own roles as organisation members;
(e) to provide a foundation for subsequent studies.
Subject description
~ommunications perception, oral presentations, assertiveness
skills, negotiation skills, conflict management, and research
skills.
1~201 Decision Analysis
10 credit points
No. of hours per week: four hours
Subject aims
To familiarise students with a range of statistical, financial and
modelling methods commonly used in the decision support
area. The application of techniques to solve business problems
and to present the results using software packages such as
LOTUS, MINITAB, Harvard Presentation Graphics etc. is
emphasised.
Subject description
An introduction to modellina conceDts.
Basic statistical ideas such aiprobability and the combination
of probabilities, probability distributions and their applications,
statistical measures (mean, variance), linear regression,
introduction to simulation.
Statistical applications through the use of sources of data, data
collection and manipulation with packages such as MINITAB.
Financial analysis: the concept of interest, present value
methods, discounted cash flow, internal rates of return.
Throughout the course analysis and graphical presentations by
using packages such as LOTUS is emphasised.
1~202 COBOL Programming
10 credit points
No. of hours per week: three and a half hours
Prerequisite: IT1 02 Introductory Programming
Subject aims
To train students to be able to:
read, understand, modify and debug COBOL programs;
design, write, test and document attractive wellstructured
programs in COBOL, using the main features
of 1985 ANSI COBOL.
Subject description
COBOL fundamentals: COBOL structure, syntax, examples,
simple vocabulaly (PERFORM, MOVE, ACCEP7; DISPLAL: etc.).
Sequential files: review file concepts, tapeldisk, file verbs.
Arithmetic: ADD, SUBTRAG MULTIPLY DIVIDE, COMPUTE.
Moves: numeric, alphanumeric, group, MOVE
CORRESPONDING.
Editing: fixed insertion, floating insertion, replacement.
Reports: layouts, headings, page control, page numbering.
Data validation: IFIELSE, nested IFs, evaluate sign and class
tests, range and limit tests, compound statements, 88 levels.
Control group reporting: PERFORM v. IFgroup processing,
group totals, group indication, group headings, summary
reports.
Testing and debugging: testing strategies, test data, design.
Indexed files: physical description of indexed files, VSAM L<
ISAM, random v. sequential access, environmentldata division
entries, verbs.
Tables: REDEFINES, review table concepts, one-dimension
tables, 2-dimension tables, PERFORM VARYING, binary search,
SEARCH, SEARCH ALL.
Multiple file processing: merges, mergelreplace, master file
update.
String processing: INSPECT STRING, UNSTRING.
Sorts: sort, merge, work file, key fields, SORT verb, input
procedure, output procedure.
Sub-programs: program design and development, modular
design, cohesion, coupling.
1~203 Business Applications & Systems 2
10 credit points
No. of hours per week: four hours
Prerequisite: IT1 03 Business Applications and
Systems 1
Subject aims
To train students to:
develop a simple business application using a
microcomputer package;
specify the data inputs, file contents and information
requirements for common production systems such as
job cost and bill of materials;
specify data that needs to be used to integrate common
business applications and to be able to achieve this on
the computer;
explain how systems are justified, developed, implemented
and maintained.
Subject description
Data base management concepts: file concepts, reporting tool
Dbase Ill+, Dbase IV or related DBMS.
Systems development concepts: packages v. Bespoke, systems
life cycle, prototyping, professional development v. user
development.
Internal controls: developing effective internal controls and
audit trails.
Justification and selection of systems.
Production systems: job cost, bill of materials.
Systems implementation, operation and maintenance.