Caution
Copyright © Monash University 1996
ISBN 1320-6222
Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996
Course director: Ms Mary Anderson
+ Human resource management (HRM) (Caulfield and Peninsula campuses);
+ Management (Caulfield and Peninsula campuses);
+ Manufacturing management (Caulfield campus).
The HRM study stream is suitable for students who have strong interpersonal communication skills and enjoy the prospect of a career which involves people management skills in jobs associated with personnel administration. The manufacturing management stream is suited to students who are interested in careers covering a wide range of jobs focussing on improving products/service industries. The management study stream provides a broad set of basic skills necessary for effective people management in a wide range of jobs.
Accordingly the course provides a flexible program of rigour at the conclusion of which graduates will have:
+ an understanding of management and how businesses operate;
+ an ability to begin their careers in appropriate managerial, marketing, administrative or financial work.
This course is suitable for students intending to move into administrative positions in private sector service organisations and semi-government and non-profit corporations. It provides a broad business education, allowing interspecialisation through career-specific study at honours or postgraduate level.
+ have a broad understanding of management issues and the operation of business within a global, competitive and dynamic environment;
+ have the ability to apply specialised knowledge and expertise in one of the areas of general management, human resources management or manufacturing management;
+ with the flexible study program available, have the ability to commence and/or develop careers with the mix of management generalist and integrative skills and a complementary study area ;
+ apply workteam and technological skills to specialist management decision making;
+ have developed effective interpersonal and communication skills with continuous independent thinking;
+ be eligible for membership of the Australian Institute of Management and/or Australian Human Resources Institute if appropriate subjects are undertaken.
Full-time and part-time studies are available at the Caulfield campus where specialist studies include accounting, arts, banking and finance, manufacturing management, marketing, international trade and computing. Evening classes are available at Caulfield campus for Caulfield-enrolled students only.
+ members of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators will be granted credit for three subjects;
+ holders of a recognised Certificate of Business Studies are eligible for credit for up to a maximum of four subjects in the course and holders of a recognised associate diploma from a TAFE college are eligible for credit for up to a maximum of eight subjects, to be determined by the course director;
+ students who are members of an approved professional accounting body will be admitted to year two of the course. A list of approved professional bodies is available from a relevant business administration offices.
Elective subjects may be used to provide further in-depth study, or to gain functional skills in another study area to widen career options. Students wishing to apply for membership of the Australian Human Resources Institute must take all their elective studies in HRM subjects.
Students in the management and manufacturing management streams may use their elective subjects to provide a specialised study program from other subjects offered by other departments and faculties at Monash.
+ ECM1640 Business mathematics and statistics
+ FIN1010 Commercial law
+ MGM1300 Introduction to management
+ ACC1110 Accounting and financial decision making
+ FIN1710 Macroeconomics
+ MKT1120 Marketing theory and practice
At the end of year one, students must choose their major stream of study from the human resource management, management or manufacturing management streams.
+ MGM2691 Management of organisational performance
+ MGM9011 Elective
+ MGM2661 Human resource management
+ or
+ MGM1500 Operations and manufacturing management
+ MKT2111 Buyer behaviour
+ MGM9021 Elective
+ MGM2621 Organisational change
+ or
+ MGM2881 Production planning and control
+ or
+ MGM2801 Advanced manufacturing technologies
+ ACC2631 Financial management
+ MGM9031 Elective
+ MGM9041 Elective
+ MKT3141 Issues in competitive advantage
+ MGM9051 Elective
+ MGM9061 Elective
All subjects have attendance requirements equivalent to three hours per week over one semester. Subject progression may be varied slightly to meet the student's individual study needs and teaching resources available.
Electives are chosen in liaison with the course director to represent a major study program. Relevant discipline areas include accounting, banking and finance, computing, human resource management, manufacturing management, international trade, management and marketing. The foreign business language program is only available at the Peninsula campus.
Course director: Mr Max Coulthard
Intake into this course ceased after 1991. Students are referred to the 1994 faculty handbook. Human resource management studies are now available in the Bachelor of Business (Bus Admin).
Course director: Mr Ross Guest
+ provide a thorough appreciation and understanding of the impact the international environment has on Australian business activities (this includes the study of the relationships which exist between individual enterprises and the financial, legal, economic, political and trade systems which comprise the international environment);
+ provide an understanding and appreciation of the various ways an Australian firm can gain access to foreign markets;
+ raise students to a basic level of foreign language proficiency and cultural awareness (This is achieved through the foreign business language sequence - offered at the Peninsula campus only.);
+ develop conceptual and practical skills so that graduates will be able to understand the major determinants of trade; identify and analyse international business opportunities and problems; understand the law relating to international trade; appreciate the function and characteristics of international financial markets and corporate funding decisions; appreciate the cultural and political aspects of export marketing to sell products overseas successfully.
+ holders of a relevant associate diploma (with Year-12 entry) from a TAFE college may be eligible for credits up to a maximum of eight subjects.
The languages focus on contemporary and business vocabulary and the languages will therefore complement the business subjects and enhance career prospects.
+ ECM1640 Business mathematics and statistics
+ FIN1710 Macroeconomics
+ MGM1230 Business communication
+ FIN1300 Money and capital markets
+ MKT1120 Marketing theory and practice
+ FIN9011 Elective**
+ ACC1110 Accounting and financial decision making
+ FIN1010 Commercial law
+ MGM1300 Introduction to management
+ ACC2051 Financial modelling
+ ACC2631 Financial management
+ FIN9021 Elective**
+ FIN3201 International law
+ FIN3331 International banking and finance
+ FIN9031 Elective**
+ MKT3141 Issues in competitive advantage
+ FIN3301 Case studies in international trade
+ FIN3291 Multinational trade and investment*
* Subject to final university approval. # Foreign languages other than business Chinese and Japanese must be approved by the course director. ** Students may continue their foreign language studies through their choice of electives.
+ FIN1710 Macroeconomics
+ MGM1230 Business communications
+ MKT1120 Marketing theory and practice
+ FIN1010 Commercial law
+ MGM1300 Introduction to management
+ FIN1300 Money and capital markets
+ MKT2111 Buyer behaviour
+ ACC2051 Financial modelling
+ FIN2191 Taxation law for international trade
+ MKT3531 International marketing
+ FIN3291 Multinational trade and investment
+ FIN9011 Elective
+ FIN3201 International law
+ FIN3301 Case studies in international trade
+ FIN9021 Elective
+ MKT3141 Issues in competitive advantage
+ MGM3401 Strategic management
+ FIN9031 Elective
Course director: Ms Mary Anderson
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.
+ 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.
+ 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.
+ FIN1010 Commercial law
+ MGM1300 Introduction to management
+ ECM1640 Business mathematics and statistics
+ FIN1710 Macroeconomics
+ ACC1110 Accounting and financial decision making
+ MKT1120 Marketing theory and practice
+ MGM2661 Human resource management*
+ FIN1300 Money and capital markets
+ ECM2111 Statistics for management*
+ MKT2111 Buyer behaviour
+ MGM2621 Organisational change
+ MGM9011 Elective
+ MGM2341 Employee relations*
+ MKT3141 Issues in competitive advantage
+ ACC2631 Financial management
+ MGM3351 International business*
+ MGM9021 Elective
+ MGM3381 Information management*
+ MGM3401 Strategic management
+ MGM9031 Elective
Course director: Mr Stuart Orr
Intake into this course ceased after 1993. Students are referred to the 1994 faculty handbook. Manufacturing studies are now available as a stream in the Bachelor of Business (Business Administration).