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MGMT20144 - Management and Business Context

General Information

Unit Synopsis

This unit offers a series of seminars and workshops that will offer you the foundation in contemporary issues in Business, the organisation and business practices. You will then have the opportunity to develop skills and knowledge of management, business contexts and examine the functions of a diverse range of firms. The unit will deliberate the impact of environmental forces on organisations, examine risks confronting the firm and discuss the practices adopted to overcome these including innovation, e-commerce, knowledge management, and globalisation. The unit will culminate in discussion of the governance options for different types of organizations and discuss the contemporary processes of regionalisation, emerging new world markets, global governance and globalisation. The unit will position these concepts as the foundation of your course and establish the groundwork for the development of consulting and management skills for general management.

Details

Level Postgraduate
Unit Level 8
Credit Points 6
Student Contribution Band SCA Band 4
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load 0.125
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites There are no pre-requisites for the unit.

Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).

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Unit Availabilities from Term 1 - 2017

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Attendance Requirements

All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes – in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).

Assessment Overview

Recommended Student Time Commitment

Each 6-credit Postgraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.

Assessment Tasks

Assessment Task Weighting
1. Practical and Written Assessment 30%
2. Practical and Written Assessment 30%
3. Presentation and Written Assessment 40%

This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%).

Consult the University’s Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades

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Previous Feedback

Term 1 - 2023 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 89.41% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 22.75% response rate.

Feedback, Recommendations and Responses

Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.

Source: Student feedback
Feedback
Students have found the foundational management content useful for their future careers.
Recommendation
Continue to offer foundational management knowledge to students while also updating content to maintain currency.
Action Taken
Maintained the topic content and continued to offer foundational management knowledge to students while also updating content to ensure its currency.
Source: Student feedback
Feedback
Friendly and helpful Lecturers
Recommendation
Continue to offer support to students in a friendly manner to assist in their learning.
Action Taken
Continued to offer support to students in a friendly manner to assist in their learning by promptly replying to their emails and being helpful in the workshops and whenever the assistance was needed.
Source: UC observation
Feedback
Changes are needed after AI risk assessment in 2023.
Recommendation
Continue to improve all assessments to reduce AI writing. Changes might be needed for Assessments 2 and 3 to reduce AI-assisted writing.
Action Taken
Nil.
Unit learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:

  1. Analyse the range of environmental forces, organisational structures, functions, governance and legal requirements of firms and the impact on the business context
  2. Discuss the contemporary issues impacting organisations including risk, innovation, knowledge management, e-commerce and the impact on the business context
  3. Investigate the cross cultural and diversity issues affecting the management of people and organisations
  4. Diagnose and discuss the impact of regionalisation and globalisation on business contexts
  5. Apply organisational theory to the organisational issues and management practice examined in this unit
  6. Critically analyse real world management and business context problems and offer solutions.


Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
Assessment Tasks Learning Outcomes
1 2 3 4 5 6
1 - Practical and Written Assessment
2 - Practical and Written Assessment
3 - Presentation and Written Assessment
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
Advanced Level
Professional Level
Graduate Attributes Learning Outcomes
1 2 3 4 5 6
1 - Knowledge
2 - Communication
3 - Cognitive, technical and creative skills
4 - Research
5 - Self-management
6 - Ethical and Professional Responsibility
7 - Leadership
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
Advanced Level
Professional Level
Assessment Tasks Graduate Attributes
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
1 - Practical and Written Assessment
3 - Presentation and Written Assessment
2 - Practical and Written Assessment