NZIM Diploma in Management

The aim is to qualify people as line managers, supervisors, section, departmental or branch managers.  NZIM has selected a range of papers from the New Zealand Diploma in Business to make up the Diploma in Management.  You need to do four compulsory and choose two optional papers to complete this qualification. These papers are taken from the basket of papers available for the New Zealand Diploma in Business as approved by NZQA.  This means that students can gain certification in the NZIM Diploma in Management while they study towards the New Zealand Diploma in Business, but must ensure that they satisfy all course and individual paper prerequisites to gain certification in both qualifications. NZIM charges a fee to register each paper.

Following is a breakdown of how the qualification is structured, but please note: not all of these will be taught in every intake.  The papers being offered in 2013 are listed below under 'Course Timetable'.  Papers not offered at SIT Queenstown may be available at our Invercargill campus, or through the Open Polytechnic by correspondence.

Compulsory Papers

530     Organisation and Management

560     Business Communication

630     Leadership

636     Applied Management

Optional Papers

Two papers must be chosen from the following

430     Quantitative Business Methods

510     Introduction to Commercial Law

541     Fundamentals of Marketing

550     Business Computing

632     Operations Management (not offered at SIT)

633     Human Resource Management

400     Accounting Principles

or

520     Economic Environment

435     Fundamentals of Small Business

or

627     Entrepreneurial Planning (not offered at SIT)

Graduates are well positioned to find rewarding career opportunities in management and are ideally suited to general office management in an intermediate role or as a lead role in middle to smaller size business organisations in both the private and public sectors.  Graduates are well equipped to develop and run their own businesses.

Papers offered at Queenstown campus in 2013 are:

Intake 1:  18 February - 27 April 2013:

Intake 2:  6 May - 6 July 2013:

Intake 3:  15 July - 14 September 2013

Intake 4:  23 September - 23 November 2013

NOTE:  To be successful, students should expect to study one hour at home for each hour spent in class.

The Zero Fees Scheme applies to this programme. Direct material costs for 2013 are: $57.50 per paper.

For international student fees, see here: http://www.sit.ac.nz/pages/about/International-fees

Textbooks required for papers in Intake 1: 

Textbooks required for papers in Intake 2: 

Where texts are marked ‘Compulsory’,  students must have them for their first class.

Texts are available from:  SIT Bookshop - phone 0800 748 266 or email: bookshop@sit.ac.nz 

Note: If you are purchasing second hand books, be sure to get the right edition!

For textbook lists for later intakes, please contact our Queenstown Campus. 

Applicants must have:

• a minimum of 14 numeracy credits at level 1 or higher in Mathematics or Pangarau on the Directory of Assessment Standards; and
• 50 credits at level 2 or above with at least 12 credits in each of three subjects including a minimum of eight literacy credits at level 2 or higher in English or Te Reo Māori; four credits must be in reading and four credits must be in writing; and
• the literacy credits will be selected from a schedule of approved achievement standards and unit standards found on the NZQA website at: http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/qualifications-standards/awards/university-entrance/approved-subjects-for-university-entrance/.

or equivalent to the above.

Adults over the age of 20 years who do not have the minimum entry requirements may be admitted if they can satisfy the teaching institution they are capable of studying at this level and have a reasonable chance of successfully completing each paper attempted.

International students for whom English is a second language must also have:

• an IELTS overall score of at least 6.0 (academic) with no individual band lower than 5.5; or
• a TOEFL score of at least 550; or
• any other standard achievement or measure allowed for in rules made under section 253 of the Education Act.

Students must achieve a pass within the first three attempts at any given paper.   Following three fails in any given paper the student is debarred from enrolling in that paper.

To pass any paper, a student must have a total of  50% or greater for the combined result of  coursework and final examination.

To complete the programme a student must have passes in all six papers including the four compulsory papers and at least two of the elective papers.