Professional Skills

eLearning Courses

Jacob's The eLearning Centre  proudly offers the most comprehensive collection of online continuing education courses from the world's best eLearning companies and authors. Through partnerships with respected online training corporations and institutions across the globe we provide self-study courses with open enrollment in nearly every subject imaginable.  Given below are the brief course descriptions of various professional skills courses.

Business Economics Professional

Distance learning course of 7 Units
This course has FREE Online Videos Associated with it.
What is economics about? Economics is the problem of using the available resources as efficiently as possible so as to achieve the maximum fulfilment of society's unlimited demand for goods and services. The ultimate purpose of economic endeavour is to satisfy human wants for goods and services. The problem is that whereas wants are virtually without limit, the resources - natural resources, labour and capital (machinery) - available at any one time to produce goods and services are limited in supply.
Resources are scarce. This fact of scarcity means that we must always be making choices about what to produce, how to produce it and for whom. Decisions must be made so that these scarce resources are allocated optimally or efficiently to their end use. This implies they could not be used more beneficially elsewhere. This is the criterion economists use to judge many economic phenomenon and is the focus of our study of the economic approaches to organisations.
Course Outline

 Introduction and Study Framework
Unit 1: Perspectives on the Economic Approaches to Organisation
Introduction
Objectives
The economic problem
The basic concepts
Markets and organisations
Information
Summary
References
Further reading
Basic Economic Concepts and Models of Analysis
Unit 2: Co-ordination through the Market Mechanism
Introduction
Objectives
Determinants of demand
Determinants of supply
Theory of demand
Theory of production
Microeconomic theory
Market failure?
Summary
References
Further reading
Unit 3: Organisational Co-ordination
Introduction
Objectives
The firm
Organisational co-ordination
Organisational configurations
Review activity
Summary
References
Further reading
Unit 4: Information and Co-ordination Mechanisms
Introduction
Objectives
Co-ordination and information
Uncertainty and contracting
Informational asymmetry
Adverse selection and moral hazard
Value of information
Summary
References
Further reading
Economic Approaches to Organisations
Unit 5: Game Theory
Introduction
Objectives
Methodological backdrop
One- and two-shot games
Auctions
The prisoner�s dilemma: single stage
Repeated games in the prisoner�s dilemma
Review activity
Summary
References
Further reading
Unit 6: Agency Theory
Introduction
Objectives
A firm's relationships
Positive theory of agency
Entrepreneurial firms and team production
The firm as a nexus of contracts
Theory of principal and agent
The agency contract
Second-best efficient contract
Modifications to the principal-agent model
Summary
References
Further reading
Unit 7: Transaction Cost Economics
Introduction
Objectives
Markets and organisations
An example of transaction cost economics
Transaction costs
Critical dimensions of transactions
Fundamental transformation and the hold-up problem
Organisational structures
Complex hierarchies
Markets and hierarchies: is that all?
Hybrid forms of co-ordination
Summary
References
Further reading
 Course Certification
Professional Business Economics Diploma issued by Stonebridge
All students will receive a certificate in the mail on successful completion of their course.
 

Events Management

Distance learning course of 8 Modules
This course has FREE Online Videos Associated with it.
The Event Management course is designed to enterprise the participant towards the management of associations, clubs, special interest groups, political, government, sports, hotel convention planning, and much more.
Event Management is a course that offers a very special opportunity; it is the opportunity of coupling one of your life's greatest joys with a career.
Course Outline

Getting to know your employees
An Overview
Planning in Event Management
Human Relations
Catering and Food Services
Marketing
Fund Raising
A Career in the field of Event Management

Course Certification

Logistics

Principles of Private Investigation

Private Investigating

Professional Property Investment

Public Relations Consultant

Public Relations Diploma

Reception Skills

Telephone Sales Skills

The Telemarketing Professional

Vehicle Selling

Brought to you by Jacob Gan, PhD (Mich)