A course in management (9)
I believe the answer is:
direction
I believe this clue is a double definition.
'a course' is the first definition.
(thesaurus)
'management' is the second definition.
(I've seen this before)
'in' acts as a link.
(Other definitions for direction that I've seen before include "Decision-making" , "Guidance" , "The way in which something is moving" , "Management" , "Trend, tendency" .)