The Important of Good Management in Establishing English Course

A report paper is submitted as the final test of English Course Management

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ENGLISH DEPARTMENT LANGUAGES AND ARTS FACULTY SEMARANG STATE UNIVERSITY 2012

I. INTRODUCTION

There are a lot of people who think that establishing English Course is easy, can be done by everyone who has proficiency in English and who has a lot of money to support the course. But in truth, establishing English Course needs alot of things to be considered beforehand. Its not only about opening a course, serving the tutors, spreading the publications and many students will come to your course. It needs management to manage the course. Using good management in establishing a course means that you are developing a course into the next level. It shows that you care about upcoming situations and problems that may come during the development of the course and it is a way of yourself to always feel confident in any situation when conducting a course. Using management is showing consideration, and it can go a long way for you trying to get ahead, be it at work or in personal relationships. This paper will discuss the important of management in establishing English course. As we know that we will be a professional in the future. Thats why we have to manage properly in order to be succesful in our working society.

II. DISCUSSION

Management is the process of designing and maintaining an environment in which individuals, working together in groups, efficiently accomplish selected goals. In other words, Management is the process of planning, organizing, leading, and controlling the efforts of organization members and of using all other organizational resources to achieve stated organizational goals. Management focuses on the entire organization from both a short and a long-term perspective. Management aims to increase the effectiveness of organizations. It's about making the most of the resources entrusted to you, and making sure the expectations of customers, employees and shareholders are met. In managing the English Course, as the manager we have to consider the following factors: 1. Planning Planning is divided into two big criteria, short term planning and long term planning. In short term planning, the manager of English Course plan what is the purpose and the fuction of his course that can be seen by everone in short/directly, such as successful in passing SNMPTN, UN, and etc. Otherwise, the long term planning is for the global scale of your purose in conducting English Course, that is to make students master english in any situation. 2. Organizing Organizing means that you have to consider a lot of things in establishing the course, such as the financial, place, time, quality, and how to handle and manage your courses daily. It is imposibble to establish good English course just by one person. English Course needs tutors, receptionist, manager, helper, receptionists etc. It means that we have to be able to communicate and handle all the people involving in the course properly.

Im sure that you dont want to see your course collapse shortly just because you dont know how to organize things. Thats why, as the manager, we need good organization. The key about organization is to be aware of your surroundings and understand the needs of all the people around you and your course. 3. Leading A course wont work well without leader. People will find it hard to know what to do without tha leaders command. The leader role in a course is very crucial. He is the one who is responsible in deciding big decision for the life of the course in every situation. One mistake can be a big burden for the course, however one good decison can also means a boost for the development of the course. Thats why a good course needs good leader who has many experience and instict to know what to do and what to decide in the upcoming situaitions. 4. Controlling How can we know a course is good or not? We can know about it by comparing the course achievements in several phases. The result of the comparation needs act, the act of controlling. Controlling a course means that keeping the course to be succesful and not collapse.

More specifically, management is responsible for the primary activities of the firm; those being inbound logistics, operations, outbound logistics, marketing and sales, and service. Management is also responsible for the support activities of infrastructure (accounting, finance, strategic planning), human resource management (recruiting, training and development, compensation management), technology development (product and process improvement), and procurement (material acquisition). 1. Infrastructure We all know that it needs money to establish a course. Strategic financial planning is needed in this part. The key of the financial is so that your

course can still run smoothly and you have a target that your pre-needed money to make a course will be back in a specific period, for instance 2 year. We can do that by compressing the daily budget to make sure that every months we can get surplus without overly decrease the quality. 2. Human resource management In choosing the right men for your couses who will work as tutors, recepcionist, and helpers, you will need consideration of quality and personality. Good workers will benefit you, while the bad ones will make your course collapse. Please remember that after finishing your choice for youe workers doesnt mean that your job is done. You have to manage the human resources (workers) to make sure that all the things are under your standard and control. Ttraining and compensation are also need to be considered for your workers. By doing training, their skills will be improved. By giving compensation, they will be happy to work with you and your business will run smoothly. 3. Technology development We live in global era, it means that the technology improved rapidly as the time goes by. Therefore, your course need to have proper technology that cover your and students needs. Good technology doesnt guarantee your course to be the best, but it guarantees your course to be more steps forward that the other course rivals. Give your students good facilities and technology. They will more likely love your course. 4. Procurement As the manager of the English course, it goes without saying that we need proper and high quality material. Please dont plagiarize from the others materials. It is a big plus for your course if you have your own material that cover your curriculum and needs. The originality and quality of your materials will make your course outstanding among the other courses. However, having good material must be supported by good teaching method. If you have two key points (good learning material and good teaching method), your course will be excelent in teaching point.

III. CONCLUSION

Management is such an important thing to be considered in conducting English course. In managing the English Course, as the manager we have to consider planning, organizing, leading, and controlling the course well. In addition understanding and chhose the right acts on infrastructure, human resource management, technology development, and procurement will make your course excelent. Making and maintaining a good course is not easy. Therefore good management can help you a lot to get a better course among the others and make you get more profit from your excelent course.

References: http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/management.html http://www.cal.org/caelanetwork/resources/managing.html http://www.englishinaction.com/managing-off-site-courses/4534716126 Oxford Advanced Dictionary. Oxford University Press, 1995.