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• Business Reporting – Financial reporting – Introduction to financial reports and their use in decision making
• Business Reporting – Recording & reporting business transactions using accrual accounting
• Business Reporting – Preparation and use of Cash Flow Statement
• Performance Assessment – Analysis & Interpretation of Financial Reports
• Performance Assessment – Introduction to Performance Evaluation – business unit & business unit manager
• Business Planning – Role of Budgets & Budget Preparation – focus on cash budget
• Business Planning – Revenue & Cost Determination
• Business Planning – Cost Behaviour & Cost Volume Profit Analysis (CVP)
• Business Planning – Operational Decision Making.

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• The histories of sustainability and social impact: the rise of the Australian and global wicked problems
• The ethics of sustainability and social impact, historical issues with the Australian global wicked problems
• Social change and impact – the contemporary social economy and doing social ecological good
• Social impact across sectors
• Using local and global frameworks and tools for evaluating and measuring social impact
• The historical and contemporary values of leadership for social change reflecting the goals of a just and reconciled nation
• Sustainability and social impact: the role of public sector and a civil and just society to mitigate the local and global effects of climate change
• Predicting the future of business, social change and impact.

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• Economic concepts of opportunity cost and comparative advantage
• Demand and supply
• Elasticity and its applications
• Production, costs, and technological changes
• Market Structures: perfect competition, monopoly, monopolistic competition, oligopoly
• Externalities and ESG (environmental, social and governance) policies
• GDP, inequality, growth and technological innovations
• Unemployment and inflation
• Aggregate demand and aggregate supply analysis
• Monetary policy
• Fiscal policy.

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• Organisations in the digital economy
• Digital technologies: their evolution to current role and purpose in business and society
• System development methodologies for designing and implementing digital technology solutions
• Data and information management in the digital economy; ethical, cultural and security issues
• Business processes and their evolution through digital technology innovation
• E-Commerce networks and commercial internet-based applications and platforms
• Digital technologies to support business transactions and processes and enterprise systems
• IS to support managerial decision making, business intelligence, business analytics, and knowledge management.

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• Introductions to organisations and management
• The role and functions of managers in complex environments
• The conceptual, interpersonal and technical skills used by managers to respond to environmental pressures
• The impact of environment and organisational culture
• The evolution of management theory in relation to changing contexts
• Creating value for the organisation and the wider community.

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• An overview of marketing
• The marketing environment
• Buyer behaviour
• Segmentation, targeting and positioning
• Marketing information and research
• New product/service development
• Branding, goods and services
• Marketing channels and logistics decisions
• Integrated marketing communications
• Pricing
• Marketing ethics.

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• Build confidence and capability in communicating online
• Develop a strong passion for business and innovation
• Develop the ability to be original, creative and forward thinking
• Establish and propagate their own brand and identity, and demonstrate increasing self-awareness.

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• Applying discipline knowledge to a real-world context
• Principles, overviews and discipline issues that relate to the project context
• Interpreting and responding to project briefs
• Team dynamics, management tools and processes
• Communications issues and stakeholder expectations
• Research methods
• Critical and reflective practices
• Documenting project developments and recommendations.

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Unit learning outcomes

• Reflect upon, analyse and communicate personal skills, attributes, strengths and values in a job readiness and career progression context.
• Analyse and summarise required skills and opportunities for employment in a chosen industry.
• Identify and demonstrate employability skills for job readiness and career progression.
• Develop and prepare a discipline-specific career path plan.
• Demonstrate an understanding of career theory, planning and management, and relevant industry and labour-market trends.

• Business
• Psychology
• Education
• Social Science
• Design
• Media and Communication

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• Contemporary innovation frameworks and business models to facilitate creative problem solving
• Practical application of disciplinary knowledge to business contexts
• Ethical business practices
• Stakeholder considerations
• Integrated reporting factors
• Cultural diversity and sensitivity
• Professional team dynamics and team performance
• Advanced presentation and communication skills
• Reflective examination of personal learning.

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• Be supported to contribute knowledge, skills and practices from their university studies into a professional context relevant to their disciplinary course of study.
• Required to demonstrate an understanding of the connection between academic knowledge, practical application and critically reflect on this professional experience in relation to future practice and career.

• Planning for learning and career
• Professional reflective practice
• Ethical, sustainable, and inclusive professional practice
• Professional networking
• Planning for professional future and career.

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• Changes to the nature of work, including digitisation, automation and artificial intelligence
• The global nature of work in the international business environment
• Changes in the population and the labour market
• New ways of working, including hybrid and remote work, virtual teams and the gig economy
• New and emerging technologies to support management and human resource management
• Models of change management and implementation
• Stakeholder perspectives, such as indigenous perspectives, on change and the future of work
• Social responsibility and ethics.

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Learn to make effective decisions in a complex business environment. The unit will assist you to think clearly and rationally about business challenges, and make judicious use of logic, evidence and ethics to make informed judgements. It will help you to review, analyse and evaluate the managerial literature. Explore the relationship between creativity and critical thinking, and gain insight into the value of developing reflective practice in the workplace.

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• Organisational behaviour and organisational theory
• Individuals in organisations (perception, attitudes and personality)
• Motivation and empowerment
• Groups and group dynamics
• Conflict and negotiation
• Organisational design
• Organisational culture and leadership.

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• The business-society interface
• Theory differentiating between philanthropy, corporate social responsibility and corporate citizenry
• Building sustainable value through Social Enterprise, Microfinance, and Public-Private Partnership (PPP)
• Stakeholder theory
• Emerging issues in social development
• Sustainability and corporate social responsibility
• Impact of climate change on global economic, political and social agendas impacting business and society.

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• Strategic competitive analysis
• Strategy formulation
• Strategy evaluation and control
• Developing strategic capability
• Corporate strategy and innovation
• Strategic management, technology and innovation
• Game theory and business strategy
• Strategy in international context
• Emerging issues in strategic management
• Linking corporate and business strategies, such as workforce strategy.

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• Management and leadership
• Leadership as a social influence process
• A range of approaches to leadership, including trait approaches, behavioural theories, contingency theory and alternative perspectives
• Complexity and leadership
• Leading in a changing environment and planning for the future
• Trust-sensitive leadership
• Virtual leadership
• Sustainable leadership
• Application of different leadership theories and frameworks to identify/compare leadership challenges and responses
• A comparative study of organisational environments and their implications for effective leadership across public sector, private sector, not-for-profit and non-government organisations.

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• The process of project management
• Project initiation and selection
• Project leadership, teamwork and stakeholder management
• Planning the project
• Implementing a project schedule and resource scheduling
• Estimating project elements
• Project control, including managing risks
• Progress monitoring and evaluation
• Project closure and audit

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• Introducing HRM’s wider context
• Strategic HRM
• Job analysis
• Attracting, selecting and socialising human resources
• Diversity and inclusion
• Training and developing human resources
• Rewarding, engaging and evaluating human resources, including theories of job evaluation, performance pay and benefits
• Workplace health and safety
• The link amongst strategy, structure, culture, and HR
• HRM in a global context and multinational organisations

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• Current Australian developments in workplace reform
• Industrial relations changes that have occurred at both the macro level and micro level
• Current legislation related to Australian workplaces in particular the Fair Work Act 2009, Equal Opportunity Act (Vic) 2010, OH&S
• Privacy and other relevant pieces of legislation
• Problem solving approaches to Enterprise Bargaining: distributive, integrative and intra-organisational bargaining
• Models of flexibility: functional, numerical, temporal locational, financial and the impact on key stakeholders
• Alternative theoretical approaches to understanding and problem solving in industrial relations.

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• Demonstrate a sound knowledge of how employment law is made, whom it affects, what duties are imposed and how those duties can be enforced
• Explain the law that relates to the common law contract of employment and the legislative impact of modern awards and enterprise agreements
• Explain the responsibilities of employers and employees with respect to workplace rights and responsibilities

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• Identify and discuss the drivers of diversity in the workplace and describe how diversity impacts business practices through collaborative teamwork
• Analyse various diversity management practices in terms of their theoretical rationale
• Develop an enhanced sensitivity, openness and respect for human diversity including gender, culture, ethnicity, religion, nationality and other dimensions of diversity
• Demonstrate awareness of diversity issues in developing and implementing people management policies and practices in particular HRM functional areas, in a diverse workplace
• Communicate effectively as a professional and function as an effective leader in team work or as a member of a team

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• Design effective procedures and instruments for collecting valid HR-data and empirical evidence in the workplace
• Identify and prepare different types of data as required to assist with HR-related problem-solving and decision-making
• Analyse, interpret and communicate patterns in qualitative and quantitative HR-related data individually and collectively
• Evaluate the extant literature and identify potential sources of cognitive bias in HR-related decisions