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Study business & management online through Open Universities Australia. Explore all degrees, subjects and short courses now.

The world is evolving, with a clear shift away from outdated business practices. Our Bachelor of Business is an alternative to more traditional business degrees, combining new skills, new values and new opportunities relevant for the new economy. It&#39;s a whole new way of thinking for a whole new generation of business professionals.The modern business practices of adaptivity, creativity, diversity and sustainable business are ingrained in this degree, so that you graduate with the skills needed for the rewarding career opportunities that the new economy brings.This degree offers you a choice of 6 majors and the opportunity to complete elective subjects.<ul><li>Human Resource Management</li><li>Management</li><li>Marketing</li><li>Innovation and Entrepreneurship</li><li>Sport Management</li><li>Logistics and Supply Chain Management</li></ul>This degree includes subjects from Griffith University and other universities through OUA.

Learn how organisations work and visualise where you fit in. Get familiar with financial documents, risk, and business comms. This business course gives you a 360-degree view of business strategy. Specialisations include marketing and management. 

Bachelor of Business

Create positive and inclusive workplaces that drive growth and success for organisations and businesses in a diverse range of industries.This course will expand your Bachelor of Business degree with essential skills in human resources that allow you to empower and manage the workforce within any organisation. Become the driving force behind growth and ingenuity with the latest best practices in this ever-changing world of business.

Learn to build productive work environments and a positive culture. An HR degree opens doors to fulfilling careers, travel, and postgrad study. You’ll cover business fundamentals and HR essentials. Build skills in communication, negotiation and more.

Bachelor of Business with a major in Human Resource Management

Become a leading workplace specialist with UniSQ’s Bachelor of Business (Human Resource Management) and learn to develop people and culture strategies that contribute value to an organisation’s mission, goals, and bottom line. Your studies cover workforce design and navigating employment relations, supporting employee performance and influencing change. At UniSQ you will connect with industry partners and work on real-life issues and case studies as well as a group project in your final year of study.

Study HR online with this accredited business degree. You’ll explore a range of HR topics including workforce design and employment relations. Learn how to recruit, retain, and develop talent in the workplace. Help organisations move forward.

Bachelor of Business (Human Resource Management)

Develop solid foundations in modern business with La Trobe’s Bachelor of Business. Prepare to thrive in a digitally disrupted world with this highly flexible degree and start building your dream career in business.You’ll explore multiple business disciplines in your first year and develop foundational knowledge and enterprise skills in areas such as management, organisational structures, data analytics and ethical business practices. You’ll choose from a wide range of majors, minors and optional second majors. You can also pair your major with complementary study from another discipline.No matter how you specialise, you’ll get hands-on experience and learn the latest digital skills while developing essential leadership, communication and critical-thinking skills.You’ll develop your professional business skills as you work in diverse teams, present business strategies and use the software that’s essential in modern business.You’ll graduate with the perfect blend of business fundamentals and technical expertise so you can change the business world.You&#39;ll learn:<ul><li>Digital literacy<ul><li>Use a wide range of digital and data-processing tools to analyse business activity and become a more effective business professional.</li></ul></li><li>Management and business structures<ul><li>Understand how to communicate, collaborate and connect with your business peers and stakeholders.</li></ul></li><li>Economics<ul><li>Discover how business and society connect. Understand economic principles and use them to create business solutions.</li></ul></li><li>Sustainability<ul><li>Learn about environmental, corporate and governance responsibility. Develop sustainable solutions that prioritise individual and societal wellbeing.</li></ul></li></ul>

Get set to innovate, problem-solve, and communicate like a professional. Along with a solid business foundation, in this degree you’ll learn digital business skills and get hands-on experience. Choose your major and start building your dream career.

Study Digital Business On Demand with UniSA Online and take full control over your study. Access support seven days a week, plan your study to fit around your life, view learning resources 24/7, and log in to the interactive online environment anywhere, any time and on any device. This 100% online diploma has been designed in partnership with global professional services company, Accenture, to ensure you graduate with a skillset informed by real-world experience and practice. Combined with UniSA’s expert business academics and world-class research, you’ll gain a unique qualification aligned to industry demand.  With just one year of full-time study, you’ll develop the foundation digital literacy skills to support business growth as emerging technologies and digital disruption transform the way we work. You’ll build valuable connections with industry leaders, and study a flexible qualification tailored to your career goals.  Informed by contemporary digital business research and enhanced by industry connections, UniSA Online’s Diploma in Digital Business is the ideal platform to help you take the first step into digital business, or prepare for further study.

Cover business concepts and IT fundamentals in this 100% online digital business course. Topics include digital disruption, cloud platforms, management, and marketing. Get ready to work in global digital businesses. Co-designed and delivered by Accenture.

Diploma in Digital Business

Study Business On Demand with UniSA Online and take full control over your study. Access support seven days a week, plan your study to fit around your life, view learning resources 24/7, and log in to the interactive online environment anywhere, anytime and on any device.  UniSA Online’s Undergraduate Certificate in Business allows you to design your own flexible qualification aligned to your career and study goals, with just six months of full-time study.  Tailor your studies to your interests and goals by choosing three electives from a diverse range of business specialisations, strengthened by a foundation of core business knowledge focused on contemporary business practice and concepts.   You’ll learn from expert academics who are leaders in their fields and incorporate their world-class research into their teaching. Gain a competitive edge and advance your career or prepare for further study in a wide range of business specialisations, from marketing and tourism to economics and accounting.   Graduate with a nationally recognised university qualification, or use the credit gained as a pathway into the first year of any UniSA Online business degree.

Get to know key business concepts and professional practices. You’ll build skills in problem-solving and communication. Gain an overview of legal and ethical issues. Choose business electives that interest you—marketing, accounting, and more. 

Undergraduate Certificate in Business

Study the Master of Business (Organisational Project Management) and develop the skills needed to establish effective structures, systems and processes for organisations. Hone your skills in scoping projects, quality assessment, time management to risk, financial and procurement management. Whether you are working, or aspire to be working at the project, program or portfolio level, develop knowledge to identify which organisational project management framework is ideal to use in each unique situation.

Go deep into project scoping, quality assessment, and time and risk management. Explore financial aspects and procurement management. Select the best framework for different situations. You’ll adopt efficient structures, systems, and processes.

Master of Business (Organisational Project Management)

Study Business Management On Demand with UniSA Online and take full control over your study. Access support seven days a week, plan your study to fit around your life, view learning resources 24/7, and log into the interactive online environment anywhere, any time and on any device.
The 100% online Bachelor of Business (Management) is a flexible and innovative degree that will give you both the practical and theoretical knowledge to help you achieve your career aspirations.
You&#39;ll learn to manage resources and projects in a global business environment and explore current business trends and emerging issues in the workplace.
The University of South Australia is known nationally and internationally for excellence in business education. They develop their degrees in partnership with industry and collaborate with top professional bodies so your degree remains relevant to today’s business environment. You can be confident that you&#39;ll be learning the latest developments and practical applications of management models and methods, with a focus on real industry problems.

Manage projects in global, dynamic business environments. Take calculated risks, explore trends and detect emerging workplace issues. Acquire specialised technical and analytical skills. Build business IP and master a practical, modern, management career.

Bachelor of Business (Management)

The Diploma of Business (Entrepreneurship) equips you with the essential knowledge and skills for crafting and launching innovative business ventures. Gain invaluable insights from industry-leading facilitators whilst learning in simulated entrepreneurial environments.Upon completion, you will have the opportunity to continue your studies into a Bachelor of Business or one of its specialisms.Tailor your study to your lifestyle thanks to our innovative digital learning system, accessible from anywhere with 24/7 personalised support. With all your course materials online, and the option to study full or part-time, on-campus, online or a blend of both it&#39;s all about flexibility.Course duration: 1 year full time, 2 years part time.

Build a thriving start-up. Work in an innovative setting. Leverage your curiosity. With entrepreneurial business skills, the choice is yours! Explore innovation principles and learn to apply them across various settings. Create new services and products.

Diploma of Business (Entrepreneurship)

Learn to become an effective leader in your industry by studying UniSQ’s Bachelor of Business (Emergent Leadership). Our graduates are prepared for the lifelong learning and growth mindset essential for forging a career as trusted leaders. At UniSQ you will build your professional identity and develop confident skills in ethical decision making, teamwork, complex problem solving, negotiation and influence, and person-centred communication, whilst gaining practical experience while working on case studies and a final-year group project together with industry partners.

If your long-term goal is leadership, start here with this online business degree. With this specialisation you’ll gain skills to manage teams and solve problems. Learn about resilience. Prepare to adapt. Become a balanced manager with a global mindset.

Bachelor of Business (Emergent Leadership)

Product Management: Transform

Get a great start to your study. In this subject you are presented with knowledge and generic skills relevant to studying at a tertiary level. The subject leads you through a staged process from submission of a brief non-academic writing task, through to completion of a researched and referenced academic essay. Along the way, you learn how to develop your formal writing skills, read and interpret academic texts and use library and internet resources to research and support academic arguments. You also learn ways to organise your time and resources, approaches to assignment writing, how to relate reference material to assigned writing, protocols of in-text referencing (Harvard/Author-Date) and techniques for compiling a bibliography. At the completion of this subject, you should be able to plan and manage your study, read and comprehend texts appropriate to undergraduate study, access and use a range of resources and recognise and apply academic conventions required for written assignments.

Commit to following the academic writing process. Cover everything from managing information to submitting your essay. Enhance your formal writing skills. Reference texts to support your arguments. Pick up techniques for compiling a bibliography.

Tertiary Learning Strategies

Students discover how the rules of contract formation and operation apply in the business world. Students learn how to understand common business contractual terms and implications to develop an appreciation of how contracts are used to allocate risk. Global, technological, social and ethical issues in relation to contracts are explored and finally, students learn about common law rules dealing with disputes and damages and how businesses resolve contractual disputes in the real world.Please Note: If it’s your first time studying a Curtin University subject you’ll need to complete their compulsory ‘Academic Integrity Program’. It only takes two hours to complete online, and provides you with vital information about studying with Curtin University. The Academic Integrity Program is compulsory, so if it’s not completed your subject grades will be withheld.Find out more about the <a href="https://www.curtin.edu.au/students/essentials/rights/academic-integrity/aip/" target="_blank">Academic Integrity module</a>.

Sharpen your understanding of contract law principles. Learn how contracts are formed, negotiated and performed. Explore the circumstances in which a contract can be terminated. Focus particularly on the role of the contract in the business world.

Applied Contract Law

This subject provides some powerful tools for understanding how economies work. It introduces the concepts and methods of experimental and behavioural economics; models of economic growth, business cycles, and financial crises; macroeconomic indicators of economic growth, unemployment, and inflation; and tools to understand and evaluate monetary, fiscal, and other economic policies. Economics affects everything in our lives—what we earn, how we work, where we learn, what we consume, how much we waste; the list goes on. An understanding of economics is critical in an uncertain world, where market forces have such a significant influence on our lives. Any student undertaking a course in commerce or business at the undergraduate level requires an understanding of economics—how people make decisions (rational or otherwise), economic policy, challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic on global economic recovery and decent work progress, sustainable economic growth and productivity, climate change dilemmas and so on. A good grasp of introductory principles of economics is crucial if we, as student collaborators and critical social-ecological observers, are to make informed judgements about solving real-world problems.Please Note: If it’s your first time studying a Curtin University subject, you’ll need to complete their compulsory ‘Academic Integrity Program’. It only takes two hours to complete online and provides you with vital information about studying with Curtin University. The Academic Integrity Program is compulsory, so if it’s not completed your subject grades will be withheld.Find out more about the <a href="https://www.curtin.edu.au/students/essentials/rights/academic-integrity/aip/" target="_blank">Academic Integrity module</a>.

Strive to understand how economists look at the world, then apply their approach to problems both big and small. Review economic theories, the GDP and the rules of supply and demand. Get a bird’s eye view of the global economic markets.

Introductory Economics

This subject develops skills and knowledge that enable students across all disciplines to make informed and responsible decisions using accounting and financial information. The unit explores different forms of business and financing options and how these affect business decisions through the understanding of financial statements. Students will learn about basic accounting and financial terminologies; cash and accrual accounting, capital investment decisions, business financing, time value of money, triple bottom line reporting and business budgeting. Students will also learn how to interpret financial statements and how global events impact on business decisions.Please Note: If it’s your first time studying a Curtin University subject you’ll need to complete their compulsory ‘Academic Integrity Program’. It only takes two hours to complete online, and provides you with vital information about studying with Curtin University. The Academic Integrity Program is compulsory, so if it’s not completed your subject grades will be withheld.Find out more about the <a href="https://www.curtin.edu.au/students/essentials/rights/academic-integrity/aip/" target="_blank">Academic Integrity module</a>.

Explore how accounting supports responsible decision making in business. You’ll get to know key terms and break down different types of accounting information. Learn how to interpret financial statements. Make informed decisions. 

Financial Decision Making

An understanding of economics can change the way you see the world. This course introduces you to the fundamental principles of economics and explores how they can impact consumer behaviour, business decisions, government policies and important social issues like climate change and poverty. Learning economics will also help you examine your thinking, developing your ability to critically analyse issues and arguments. These thinking skills are an important component of becoming a positive contributor to society and will position you well no matter where your career takes you. UniSA Online’s 10-week short courses give you the flexibility to upskill in a certain area, stay current with developments in your field, diversify your knowledge, or even explore a new direction in your career – without having to commit to the time and cost of a full university degree.  Delivered 100% online, you’ll be able to study where and when it suits you. Access online academic and student support seven days a week, fit study around work and life commitments, view learning resources 24/7, and log in to the interactive online environment anywhere, any time and on any device. This is a first-year course from UniSA Online’s Accounting degree. Please note: you are responsible for completing any relevant prerequisite courses before enrolling in this course.Should your course have an exam it will be scheduled for Australian Central Standard Time or Australian Central Daylight Time, depending on the time of the year.

This economics short course offers an introduction to how economies work. You’ll learn about links between economics, decision-making, resource allocation, and social issues. Get to know some economic tools and models. 

Principles of Economics

Successful marketing decisions require a sound understanding of consumer behaviour, whether in the context of commercial firms, non-profit organisations, or government departments. This course provides you with a thorough appreciation of the complexities of consumer decision-making to ensure that your future marketing decisions achieve your objectives in your target market.Students should not enrol in the subject if they have completed 2004MKT Consumer Psychology at Griffith University.

Get to know consumer behaviour. You’ll delve into psychological factors that influence peoples’ choice of products, services, and brands. Help businesses create products and marketing strategies that appeal to customers.

Consumer Psychology

This subject covers a range of legal topics relating to the business environment. It combines topics that are necessary for a consideration of business and corporate law including: an introduction to the legal system; contract law principles; sale of goods; competition and consumer law; tort law; law of agency; business structures and basic corporate law and governance principles. The subject teaches students how to analyse, and solve legal problems, all essential skills for those wishing to work in both the fields of accounting and business management.

Business and Corporate Law

This subject was previously known as Internet Commerce and Consumers.
The Internet has fundamentally reshaped the global economy, and with it our experiences as workers and consumers. In this subject, you will come to understand the dynamics of the digital economy, including the importance of platforms, networks, attention, and growth. You will also explore alternative economic models facilitated by the Internet, such as the gift economy. This subject will provide you with a nuanced perspective on how the economy has changed over recent decades, why it matters, and what might happen next.
Further Information: List of topics is indicative and subject to minor change prior to the start of each Study Period.
Please Note:  If it’s your first time studying a Curtin University subject you’ll need to complete their compulsory ‘Academic Integrity Program’. It only takes two hours to complete online, and provides you with vital information about studying with Curtin University. The Academic Integrity Program is compulsory, so if it’s not completed your subject grades will be withheld.
Find out more about the <a href="https://www.curtin.edu.au/students/essentials/rights/academic-integrity/aip/" target="_blank">Academic Integrity module</a>.

Learn to understand the dynamics of the digital economy, including the importance of platforms, networks, attention, and growth. Explore alternative economic forms, such as peer-to-peer and gift economies.

The Digital Economy

The subject serves as an introductory platform to business processes. It offers both conceptual and practical guidance for achieving competitive advantage by managing business processes. The Management of Business processes involves the deliberate and collaborative design, management and goal definition of end-to-end sets of activities that create value for customers.Key aspects of business processes at the management, operational and support level are investigated and supporting theories explored looking at the work of Taylor, Harmon, Davenport, Hammer and Porter to name some. By taking a holistic view of the organisation, that transcends vertical, horizontal, external and geographical boundaries, this unit provides a road map for guiding organisations to analyse, re-design and improve business processes. Finally, the effects of the application of Information Systems on business processes are investigated in terms of how the processes themselves are captured and become an integral part of the technology.Students should not enrol in this subject if they have completed 2128IBA The Management of Business Process at Griffith University

Get a snapshot of the business processes companies use to deliver products and services to consumers. Break down the production and marketing stages. Identify the role management plays. See how technology is improving production and service systems.

The Management of Business Processes

In this subject, students will be introduced to the nature and sources of law and regulation in Australia connected to business. Key aspects of Australian business law and their engagement with and influences on business operations are explored. Students will solve introductory legal concepts centred on business operations and their interrelationship and influences on society including in the finance and insurance domains.Please Note: If it’s your first time studying a Curtin University subject you’ll need to complete their compulsory ‘Academic Integrity Program’. It only takes two hours to complete online, and provides you with vital information about studying with Curtin University. The Academic Integrity Program is compulsory, so if it’s not completed your subject grades will be withheld.Find out more about the <a href="https://academicintegrity.curtin.edu.au/" target="_blank">Academic Integrity module</a>.

An introduction to important laws related to consumers, contracts, property, business crime, and more. You’ll explore the rules and institutions that govern business and commerce in Australia. Get to know the legal framework within which businesses operate.

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