Bulletin Number Three 1985

Table 2 Career Fields Majors Accounting Finance No. % No. % Accounting 24 54.5 — 一 Administration/Management 3 6.8 — — Banking 7 15.9 5 41.8 Computer/Data Processing 2 4.6 — — Finance — — 1 8.3 Import/Export 一 — 1 8.3 Insurance — — 2 16.7 Investment 1 2.3 — — Market Research 一 — 1 8.3 Teaching: Secondary 4 9.1 1 8.3 Teaching: Tertiary 3 6.8 1 8.3 Total 44 100.0 12 100.0 teaching, research and service to the community. To achieve its objectives, the Department is taking positive steps in recruitment. Besides making active efforts in recruiting qualified teachers, the Department has also been sending young staff members overseas for further studies. Currently, tw o teachers are under the staff development programme. —B. Tai Department of General Business Management The Department of General Business Management and Personnel Management has been in existence since 1975, one year after the establishment of the Faculty of Business Administration. Students of the Department may major in either General Busines s Management or Personnel Management. As a unit under the Faculty of Business Administration, the Department adheres closely to the basic philosophy of the Faculty, which is to provide the students with a firm base of liberal education, integrated with a basic knowledge of the functional and analytical aspects of business, and supplemented by a moderate degree of specialization in a particular area of organizational or administrative activity. This is achieved through the offering of five types of courses: language courses, general education and physical education courses, major core courses, major concentration courses, and minor and elective courses. In addition to the broader objectives of the Faculty, the specific objectives of the Department are as follows: The programme in General Business Management provides students with a broad background in managerial knowledge and aims to develop their leadership skills for careers in modem organizations and in entrepreneurial endeavours. For Personnel Management, students are given a firm background in analytical and functional aspects in Business Administration, in addition to a specialization in the discipline of Personnel Management. The Department is committed to teaching, research and community service, and always tries to improve the quality of its activities through constant review of its programme of studies, establishing closer links with the business community and devoting more efforts to research. I n recent years, changes in the business environment are taking place in a more rapid pace and business organizations have become bigger in size, and more international and complicated in 6 RECENT DEVELOPMENTS