Bachelor of Business (Management & Innovation) (Top-Up)

"MANAGEMENT AND INNOVATION MAJOR Strategic Management Students study normative theories and models of organisation strategy, policy and decision making to critically assess their value to the organisation and its stakeholders. Through this study, students will develop knowledge, personal skills and competencies in the application of the strategic management principles to contemporary organisations. Business Ethics Improving ethical standards and learning how to make appropriate ethical judgements in different contexts is a critical aspect of business practice in today's increasingly complex and globalised social and economic environment. Students will be involved in a number of activities that address ethical issues associated with business practice. They will evaluate questions of business responsibility in relation to globalisation, corporate social responsibility, stakeholders, and the ethics of environmental sustainability that characterise business situations. Innovation and Entrepreneurship The aims of this unit are: to provide an in-School study of the concepts of innovation, entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship and an appreciation of the environment in which they are practiced and to study and appraise the theory and practice of resource acquisition and utilisation. This unit includes the following topics: opportunity recognition; the innovation, entrepreneurial and entrepreneurial process; new venture ideas; market opportunities; competitive advantage; human resource issues; personal ethics; identifying and marshalling key stakeholders; financial considerations: acquisition of resources, and ownership and structure; innovators in action: managing rapid growth, managing a troubled organisation, and crafting a personal strategy. Knowledge Management Practices for Innovative Organisations Students investigate the significance of managing knowledge within organisations for successful collaborative innovations. The subject includes the following topics: sources and forms of knowledge; organisational memory and learning; developing knowledge systems; documents in electronic environments; and knowledge management tools. Students will investigate the alignment of knowledge management and business strategy for innovation, and discuss managing an innovative culture and change. The selling and measuring knowledge management, and using knowledge for competitive advantage will be debated and critiqued. Entrepreneurial Business Issues This unit aims to develop a deeper understanding of a range of issues important to the success of entrepreneurial business. Topics include opportunity recognition; business planning; innovative marketing; entrepreneurial management issue and franchising. International Management This unit investigates the critical factors impacting upon management in an international context. Students explore the role of management in any nationality, encouraging a truly global perspective in dealing with dynamic management issues in foreign and local environments. Culture is considered from a management perspective and also evaluated in a global context. Various theories, models and frameworks will be introduced that provide different perspectives on understanding and managing internationally. Managing Organisational Change In this unit students will develop approaches to, and methods of, change that foster organisational responsiveness to the rapidly changing and competitive environment. The aim of this unit is to provide you with a clear understanding of some key changes necessary for organisations to bring about innovative and sustainable ways of achieving improved business performance and the issues underlying these. Understanding organisational change will help students imagine how organisations will continue to change over the next decades, and how this might affect employees, organisations and the community. This unit provides students with a framework for rethinking their organisational change and management experiences, and for gaining a critical appreciation of future change management practices that creates a pathway for organisational innovation. Students will understand how to lead and manage change. International Business Challenge The unit focusses on engagement with global business particularly in Asia, business project management and career development and management. The unit continues the development of academic, professional and personal skills commenced in the First Year units and in particular in the Integrated Business Challenge unit. The International Business Challenge unit provides an international context to analyse the trends and opportunities in the global market through a problem solving and project management framework via an international project. Students develop an intercultural understanding from a personal, professional and business perspective as well as an appreciation of the distinctive nature of working in diverse local and global communities. Applied Business Challenge This is a capstone unit which focuses on the development, demonstration and application of students skills around the themes of leadership and challenge provides a thematic link from the Business Challenge stream as well as business specialisations. In this unit, students will demonstrate their understanding of the business environment and the knowledge and skills required for professional practice. The assessments emulate professional practice by combining multi-disciplinary, simulation and research based projects. Applied Business Statistics The focus of this unit is to expose students to statistical techniques that are specific to the areas of business, economics and finance. Students will develop an understanding and ability to use these techniques across a range of empirical problems. The application of such techniques will involve collection of relevant data, the use of professionally popular computer software and the interpretation and use of computer outputs. Topics include sampling methods and estimation of point and confidence intervals; hypothesis tests; non-parametric tests; analysis of variance; Chi-square tests; multiple regression and residual analysis; discriminant analysis and factor analysis. Operations Management Operations Management is one the specialised units of Bachelor of Business (Supply Chain and Logistics Management) course. This unit is a gateway to other specialised units of the course. The unit aims to empower business graduates to develop the ability to understand and analyse specific operational problems and to propose solutions. This requires a thorough understanding of both the operations management principles and techniques so as to be able to apply this knowledge in practice. This unit includes the following topics: operations function in manufacturing and service industries; the planning and control of the operations process; application of operations management tools and techniques. Corporate Finance This unit investigates alternative financing proposals that firms may face in both the shorter and longer term. Through this process students develop a high level of financial literacy enabling them to investigate, analyse and synthesise complex financial information including knowledge of theoretical and practical developments in finance and solving complex problems through the application of specific techniques of analysis."