Course director: Ms Mary Anderson
The course
This course is intended for students desiring a business degree with a strong emphasis on management studies. It provides preparation for managerial careers in business, helping students acquire the skills of `learning to learn,' as learning is a life-long process, and of being sought after as employees.
The course offers a basic grounding in the recognised business disciplines of finance, business law, marketing and economics as well as a range of specialised management skills including business planning and decision making, human resource management, business communication, finance and employee relations management.
This course is offered on a full-time or part-time basis. It is appropriate for school leavers who have demonstrated exceptional academic ability or business persons wishing to complement their experience and gain a formal educational qualification.
Objectives
On completion of this course students should:
* have a broad understanding and appreciation of management issues and how business operates in a global competitive and dynamic environment;
* have developed effective interpersonal and communication skills with continuous independent thinking;
* have developed practical, analytical and process skills within a comprehensive framework of general business areas and specialist management disciplines;
* have the ability to commence and/or develop careers in management fields within an international environment;
* have the skills, opportunity and encouragement to progress into post-graduate studies and/or research;
* be able to apply work team and technological skills to management decision making;
* be eligible for membership of the Australian Institute of Management and/or the Australian Human Resources Institute, providing appropriate subjects are undertaken.
Venue
Day and evening classes are offered at the Caulfield campus. Day only classes are offered at Peninsula campus.
Credit for work done elsewhere
In addition to part one, section four of the degree regulations, the following credit transfers have been standardised for the Bachelor of Business (Management):
* members of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators will be granted credit for three subjects;
* holders of a recognised Certificate of Business Studies or TAFE Associate Diploma in Business Studies are eligible for credit for up to a maximum of four and eight subjects respectively in the course, to be determined by the course director.
Course structure
Year one
First semester
* MGM1230 Business communication*
* FIN1010 Commercial law
* MGM1300 Introduction to management
* MKT1120 Marketing theory and practice
Second semester
* MGM1510 Quality management*
* FIN1710 Macroeconomics
* ACC1110 Accounting and financial decision making
* FIN1640 Business mathematics and statistics
Year two
First semester
* MGM2691 Management of organisational performance
* MGM2661 Human resource management*
* ACC2031 Financial controllership
* MGM9011 Elective
Second semester
* FIN2710 Microeconomics
* MGM3381 Information management* or
* MGM2821 Human resources management information systems*
* MKT1131 Statistics for marketing
* MGM2621 Organisational change*
Year three
First semester
* MGM2341 Employee relations*
* FIN2991 Law and managerial responsibility
* SYM3141 Issues in competitive advantage
* MGM9021 Elective
Second semester
* MGM3351 International business*
* MKT3301 Services marketing* or
* MKT3201 Business marketing*
* MGM3401 Strategic management
* MGM9031 Elective
* MGM9041 Elective
Students must choose seven subjects from those marked with the asterisk (*) and in addition the course structure allows the choosing of four electives.