Graduate Diploma of Business Administration

The focus of the Excelsia University College Graduate Diploma of Business Administration (GDBA) is leadership of organisations with an ethical and social responsibility orientation. The program is designed to develop in students leadership skills as well as knowledge of ethical and socially responsible practices within organisations. The purpose of the GDBA is to promote and enhance the mission of Excelsia through the application of scholarship consistent with a Christian worldview in producing graduates prepared to lead in a range of professions and organisational settings.

Where appropriate, the course is supplemented by biblical, ethical, philosophical, and social scientific materials and perspectives. These materials and perspectives are intended to enhance, not detract from, contemporary understandings of business contexts, practices, and environments. Where such materials and perspectives are deployed in the course, linkages to relevant business understandings are made explicit. Such linkages include, but are not limited to:

• The applicability of values-based leadership from a general-management and organisation-specific perspective.
• The role of biblical and moral insights with respect to the capacity to think and act strategically and ethically under conditions of rapid change and uncertainty.
• A focus on personal integrity and the holistic well-being of people when analysing and integrating business policies, practices, and procedures.
• Social and sustainable enterprise in the context of finance, human resources, information systems, international business, and general leadership and management.
• The capacity to communicate ethically and effectively, to work productively in teams, to use information technology thoughtfully, and to candidly appraise personal abilities, strengths, and weaknesses.

Philosophically, the GDBA is ‘outward looking,’ with a clear orientation towards managers as global citizens, decision makers, and leaders, from initiating organisational research all the way through the value chain to marketing and after-sales service.

The program takes a human-centric approach to management education that incorporates human values of empathy as well as the development of critical analytical thinking and design thinking. The goal of this orientation to management education is to make the Excelsia GDBA graduate a better business leader connected to the real world and communities in which businesses operate.