Graduate Diploma in Hotel Management

Level 6                                  

Students must complete three of the following:        

HTM601 Contemporary Tourism

This paper expands students’ knowledge of theories, illustrated with practical examples, about tourism and hospitality, and to consider issues such as ecotourism, sustainability and authenticity in tourism. In these issues the focus widens from elements of whole tourism systems to the interactions of these systems with their environments.

HTM606 Financial Management for Business

To enable the student to use financial and operating information for management in planning, control, evaluation and decision making. To develop the skills for understanding, interpreting and using management accounting and other financial information in tourism and hospitality environments.

HTM607 Employment Relations and Law for Tourism and Hospitality

To introduce students to, and expand their knowledge of, the complex legal environment in which they operate and the implications of this on hotel and tourism businesses. Students will understand relevant legal concepts and apply them to customers and staff in their tourism and hospitality organisations. The paper will cover employment relations and relevant consumer legislation.

HTM608 Entrepreneurship

To equip students with knowledge, skills and conceptual frameworks that assist in recognising and assessing inputs to the entrepreneurial process, in planning and creating a new venture, and in managing it successfully through establishment and growth. To explore evolution of the entrepreneurial process in the context of tourism, hospitality and business contexts.

HTM610 Facilities Management in Hospitality

Students will be able to analyse and apply management techniques to attain productivity, yield and profitability requirements for a hospitality operation. Plan and develop strategies to manage property and product within the business environment.

MAN632 Operations Management

This paper provides students with an understanding of the management function in relation to the production of goods and services. Students will gain knowledge of the practical realities of operations management and how it contributes to the overall management of the organisation in a hospitality, tourism and / or business context.

MAN633 Human Resource Development

Students will understand the roles, functions and applications of Human Resource Management within contemporary New Zealand hospitality, tourism and business organisations.

MKT676 Services Management and Marketing

This paper will develop students’ ability to link the issues and concepts that have been explored in previous papers. Students will develop effective operations strategies and service management techniques for tourism and hospitality organisations.

Level 7                                  

Students must complete 75 credits from the following:          

CON759 Contemporary Issues (Alternative to HTM704)

This paper provides students with the opportunity to demonstrate an advanced knowledge and understanding of various marketing / management / accounting theories and practices applicable to profit and/or non-profit organisations, which reflect the key contemporary issues faced by organisations. Students will be able to identify, consolidate and evaluate strategic issues studied in earlier parts of the degree and within the current business environment.

ETH760 Business Ethics

This paper aims to provide participants with an understanding of ethical reasoning. Participants will learn to identify ethical issues and evaluate ethical theories as they are applied to various contexts with a particular emphasis on business.

HTM704 Contemporary Issues in Hotel Management

Demonstrate an advanced knowledge and understanding of various theories and practices in strategic management, applicable to hotel organisations reflecting the key contemporary issues of strategic and operation hotel management. To identify, consolidate and evaluate strategic issues studied in earlier parts of this degree programme and within the current hotel environment

HTM706 Sustainability in Tourism

To expand student knowledge and ability towards managerial techniques and trends towards sustainability in the tourism industry and how this synthesizes with the concepts of management. To increase student capacity towards integrated strategies surrounding the contemporary environment, the needs of present and future generations, and local and national economies. To enable students to use appropriate analytical and problem-solving techniques when applying both theoretical knowledge and applied initiatives to limiting resource depletion whilst creating business practises for a tourism organisation’s economic viability.

IBS790 International Business

This paper provides students with an advanced knowledge and understanding of the theoretical and practical aspects of conducting international business, with a focus on the specific requirements involved with importing, and foreign entry strategies. The ability to formulate international business strategies and trade initiatives within the context of differing financial, political, legal and cultural systems will be developed.

MAN734 Strategic Management

This paper provides students with an insight into how to think strategically in order to gain strategic advantage and to add value to an organisation. Students apply strategic management principles to simulated and actual business situations to develop their critical thinking within a hospitality, tourism and / or business environment.

MAN735 Advanced Human Resource Management

1. To expand student knowledge and ability towards managerial concepts, techniques and trends of human resource management (HRM) developed through previous and concurrent studies.

2. To increase student aptitude towards integrated strategies surrounding human resource management, incorporating HRM in different cultures, global staffing issues, and comparative geographical HRM studies.

3. To enable students to critically examine the strategic nature of HRM through an exploration of alternative ways of viewing HRM, how HRM should relate to changes in the organisational environment, and the relationships between organisational strategy, HRM and organisational outcomes.

MKT772 Strategic Marketing

This paper provides students with a comprehensive understanding of marketing strategy relevant to contemporary organisations and markets.

MKT776 Event Management

To expand student knowledge and ability towards managerial concepts, techniques and trends of hospitality food and beverage operations developed through previous and concurrent studies. To increase student aptitude towards integrated strategies surrounding event management, incorporating budgetary and quality controls, planning and marketing, whilst focussing on international, national and local markets. To enable students to use appropriate analytical and problem-solving techniques, when applying both theoretical knowledge and practical skills to operational management within an actual physical environment.

WPE700 Workplace Experience

Elective 1 - Elective Paper (to be approved by Programme Manager)

Elective 2 - Elective Paper (to be approved by Programme Manager)