Comparative Business Contexts
PostgraduateTAS-BMA7022024
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- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 14 weeks
- Start dates
- 26 Feb 2024
- Loan available
- FEE-HELP available
Comparative Business Contexts
About this subject
Upon completion of this subject, the student should be able to:
- Evaluate the industrial and economic structure, culture and politics of practicing business, management, and leadership across different contexts.
- Critically reflect on cultural differences, and how these differences impact upon business and management practices.
- Communicate management concepts and business ideas to professional audiences.
- Week 1 - Introduction to the Subject
- Week 2 - Current Affairs - Globalisation and complexity in the business environment
- Week 3 - Current Affairs - Ethics and sustainability
- Week 4 - Centrality of Context - Tasmanian context
- Week 5 - Centrality of Context - Northern Territory context
- Weeks 6 - 7 - Comparative Perspectives - Business landscape comparison
- Week 8 - Social Perspectives - Population and workforce trends - Tasmania
- Week 9 - Social Perspectives - Population and workforce trends - Northern Territory
- Week 10 - Place - Centrality of 'place'
- Week 11 - Leadership - Emerging issues in leadership
- Week 12 - Review - Discussion and debate
- Week 13 - Review - Subject overview
This subject is designed to test assumptions about the operation of organisations in different contexts. Students are offered an opportunity to explore different social, cultural, and behavioural dimensions of business through the in-depth comparative analysis of 'place'.
Students will be required to employ reflective practice to critically explore managerial practices, leadership approaches and operational mechanisms given complex external and internal characteristics of organisations in commercial, public and not-for-profit sectors across different contexts. Learning from across the MBA(I) course of study will be applied to critique contemporary leadership and business management approaches.
- Reflective Journal (20%)
- Case Study Analysis (40%)
- Narrated Presentation (40%)
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Entry requirements
To enrol in this subject, you must be admitted into a degree.
Others
Conditional requisite: 75 credit points of postgraduate subjects (equivalent to 6 subjects).
Additional requirements
- Other requirements - Teaching Arrangement: Study tour; and 2 x 2-hour workshops. Note: Best scheduled in the final semester of study.
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
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