Undergraduate - UnitMGW3401 - Strategic management

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2015 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

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6 points, SCA Band 3, 0.125 EFTSL

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Level	Undergraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Business and Economics
Organisational Unit	Department of Management
Offered	Malaysia First semester 2015 (Day) South Africa First semester 2015 (Day)
Coordinator(s)	Dr Tee Ding Ding

Synopsis

Business environments including markets, critical success factors, and strategies employed to gain a competitive advantage; the nature of strategic management; the analysis and interpretation of business environments; the nature of competition, relative position of firms, individual strategies and their relationship to critical success factors; strengths and weaknesses related to production, finance, research and development, marketing, administration; the role of structure, controls, rewards, culture and leadership in implementation.

Outcomes

The learning goals associated with this unit are to:

identify factors that help companies to survive and prosper
compare various business models and the actual processes of managing strategies
evaluate various techniques of analysing situations that require a strategic response
debate the factors that lead to strategy success and failure
apply strategic management concepts in particular cases.

Assessment

Within semester assessment: 60%
Examination: 40%

Workload requirements

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. Independent study may include associated readings, assessment and preparation for scheduled activities. The unit requires on average three/four hours of scheduled activities per week. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.

Chief examiner(s)

Dr Tee Ding Ding

Prerequisites

Students must have passed MGB1010 or MGF1010 or MGG1010 or MGP1010 or MGW1010 before undertaking this unit.

Prohibitions

MGC3110, MGF3401, MGG3401