6 points, SCA Band 3, 0.125 EFTSL
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Offered
- First semester 2019 (On-campus)
- Summer semester B 2019 (On-campus block of classes)
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.
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