​AOU’S FACULTY OF BUSINESS STUDIES AIMS TO:

• Provide students with the knowledge to succeed in their chosen field and ensure the development of skills in problem solving, ethical decision making, communi​cations, teamwork, and leadership.
• Increase students' abilities and confidence to handle managerial, financial and administrative activities.
• Enable students understand how key forces like the economy, the state and the system influence and interact with business.
• Teach students how to apply the most recent and innovative developments in systems thinking to areas such as information systems, organizational change and professional practice.
• Acquire and provide knowledge about the different approaches to the analysis and explanation of business problems; how to set targets and plan how to achieve them.
• Attract, and retain faculty dedicated to education, scholarship and the mission of the FBS.
• Attract and develop outstanding students who are dedicated to intellectual excellence.
• Produce primarily basic research, with supporting efforts in applied and pedagogical research that contributes to and complements the mission the AOU.
• Develop the skills of independent learning through activities of face to face and distance learning. 
• Provide opportunities for continued involvement, education, and professional growth of its graduates.

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