Graduate Certificate in Management

Unit code: HRM60016
Duration: 1 Teaching Period
Contact hours: Recommended 10 hours of study per week

About this unit

This unit introduces students to the fundamentals of management and organisational behaviour in the context of today’s global business environment. It examines the major theories and models in areas of communication, group dynamics, individual behaviour and motivation, decision-making, leadership, power and politics, change and resistance, and ethics and social responsibility. It places particular emphasis on the application of theory to dilemmas and issues likely to confront managers today and in the future.

Content

• Models in areas of communication, group dynamics, individual and group behaviour and motivation, decision making, leadership, power and politics, change and resistance, and ethics and social responsibility
• Introduction to organisational behaviour approaches including critical management thinking,  paradigms and theories
• Applications of organisational behaviour theories to dilemmas and issues likely to confront managers today and in the future
• The politics and ethics of managerial and employee behaviour in organisations
• Organisational problems and issues relevant to organisations operating in a global and diverse workplace

This unit is found in Master of Business Administration and the Graduate Certificate in Management.

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About this unit

This unit provides the fundamental knowledge base and skills necessary for anyone wishing to study or work as an innovator and/or entrepreneur. The processes and evaluation techniques taught in this unit can be applied to entrepreneurship and innovation in any context: new businesses, existing businesses (small or large), not-for-profit, public service. The unit aims to critically reflect on real world innovations and entrepreneurial practice using key ideas, concepts, models, procedures, tools, methods and literature in the innovation and entrepreneurship disciplinary environment. Design and discovery principles are applied in order to discover and test product-market fit.

After successfully completing this unit, you will be able to:
1. Apply coherent and advanced knowledge concepts, techniques and tools in regards to discovery and development of entrepreneurial opportunities
2. Apply the fundamentals of entrepreneurship to develop business skills and apply for customer development.
3. Critically analyse business models in startup development and develop skills in building business models
4. Demonstrate integrity, ethical conduct, accountability, respect and a developing awareness of professional practices and cultural norms in a global and sustainable context
5. Work collaboratively in groups analysing, presenting and applying a range of startup tools in order to discover and develop the opportunity

This unit is found in Master of Business Administration (MBA) and the Graduate Certificate in Management.

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Unit code: FST80008 Designing for change

Duration: 1 Teaching Period

Contact hours: Recommended 10 hours of study per week

Aim

This unit focuses students on utilising innovation and design approaches to the challenge of delivering a business project. The unit aims to extend students’ thinking in terms of creating solutions that go beyond traditional boundaries. The unit encompasses the societal and commercial/business aspects of innovation and design.

Content

• The innovation process
• Future Action Model
• Group working, networking and creating sparks

This unit is found in Graduate Certificate of Management

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Unit code: PRM60002 Project Management for Business Development
Duration: 1 Teaching Period
Contact hours: Recommended 10 hours of study per week

About this unit

This unit demonstrates the decisions and tasks that emerge during the phases of the entrepreneurial life cycle. The unit also aims to provide students with an understanding of the importance of developing project management capabilities and competences within an entrepreneurial venture in such a way that it captures organisational learning and influences, as well as establishing a process that clearly aligns project selection to enterprise strategy. The unit will critically analyse personal opportunities to develop entrepreneurial activities within the student’s own role.

Content

• What is an entrepreneur, an intrapreneur and a professional manager. What are their characteristics and traits?
• The role of the enterprising leader in project management
• The entrepreneurial life cycle and the role project management plays
• Determinants of a viable entrepreneurial project
• Conditions which stimulate the emergence of enterprise and entrepreneurship
• Understanding the strategic orientation of your enterprising business
• The benefits of feasibility studies
• Negotiation within the entrepreneurial firm and project management
• How to understand and analyse risk in entrepreneurial ventures and during its life cycle
• Managing and dealing with limited resources
• Funding sources for entrepreneurial projects

This unit is found in Graduate Certificate of Management

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