Bachelor of Business (Business Administration) - BBus(BusAdmin)
Course code: 0479
Course coordinator: Ms Nell Kimberley
This course is designed for overseas students, recent school leavers and mature
age students wishing to undertake major studies in both general management and
a functional discipline relevant to careers in business administration. Two
major study streams are available:
- human resource management (HRM) (Caulfield and Peninsula campuses);
- management (Caulfield and Peninsula campuses).
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 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:
- a basic grounding in recognised business disciplines including
management, with some exposure to accounting, finance, business law, marketing
and economics;
- development of a range of specialised management skills including
business planning and decision making, human resource management, business
communication, finance management and employee relations;
- flexibility of study options in the functional areas of business to
broaden students' knowledge and meet individual career needs in management,
marketing or in finance 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.
On completion of this course the student should be able to:
- 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 or human resources 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 work team 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.
In addition to part one, section four of the degree regulations, the
following credit transfers have been standardised for the Bachelor of Business
(Business Administration):
- 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.
Day and evening classes are offered at the Caulfield campus. Day-only
classes are offered at the Peninsula campus.
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.
In common with other Bachelor of Business degree courses at Caulfield
and Peninsula there are currently thirteen compulsory subjects which provide a
common core of knowledge and basic business skills. These cover accounting,
banking and finance, business statistics, commercial law, economics, management
and marketing.
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.
This specialisation comprises five subjects from business
communications, quality management, human resource management, employee
relations, organisational change, international business, information
management or HRM information systems. Students choose their six elective
subjects from another discipline.
Students in this stream are required to undertake the general management
stream subjects. In addition, they must choose at least four of the six
elective subjects from managerial communication, international management, HRM
strategy and planning, performance management systems, cross-cultural
communication and negotiation and current issues in HRM.
- AFX1110 Accounting and financial decision making
- ETX1640 Business mathematics and statistics
- MGX1691 Management of organisational performance
- MKX1120 Marketing theory and practice
At the end of year one,
students must choose their major stream of study from the human resource
management or management streams.
- AFX1300 Money and capital markets
- MGX2661 Human resource management
- MGX2511 Quality management
- MGX0011 Elective
- AFX2631 Financial management
- MGX2341 Employee relations
- MGX0031 Elective
- MGX0041 Elective
- MGX3401 Strategic management
- MKX3141 Issues in competitive advantage
- MGX0051 Elective
- MGX0061 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 available only at the Peninsula campus.