Units: BS Business
BS100 Economics
Prerequisites: Nil
In this subject you will study those aspects of microeconomics and macroeconomics that will be useful in your business career. You will examine the way in which individual households and firms make business decisions; the way in which individual markets work; the way in which taxes and government regulations affect the operation of individual markets; the way in which the National Accountant measures macroeconomic variables; and the way in which macroeconomic variables oscillate and grow over time. You will become acquainted with notions such as the laws of demand and supply, the elasticity of demand, perfect competition, monopolistic competition, oligopoly, monopoly, producer and consumer surplus, market efficiency, externalities, Gross Domestic Product, the CPI, the multiplier, fiscal policy, and monetary policy.
BS103 Quantitative Methods for Business
Prerequisite: Nil
In this subject you will study the various mathematical concepts and tools that are used on a day-to-day basis in the business disciplines. You will learn how to use basic mathematical operations, algebra, functions, financial mathematics, calculus, probability and statistics to solve problems in the fields of economics, marketing, management, human resource management, finance and accounting. The course is especially designed for those students who have struggled with mathematics at secondary school.
BS110 Accounting
Prerequisite: Nil
This Foundation unit provides an introduction to accounting in both a business and a professional context. The unit examines the fundamental concepts and principles of accounting, the elements of financial statements and the preparation and basic interpretation of the balance sheet and income statement. It also examines broader conceptual, practical and ethical aspects of the accounting discipline. BS110 also introduces students to oral presentation techniques and to structured problem solving methodology, primarily through the use of an extensive integrated case study and weekly applied problems for discussion. This unit is a requirement for those wishing to progress their studies through the ICAA, CPAA or NIA professional programs.
BS120 Principles of Finance (previously coded BS221)
Prerequisite: BS100 Economics
Financial systems within developed economies are essentially similar in their structure and operation and thus an understanding of them will be universal in application. This unit focuses on the Australian financial system which is composed of numerous markets and institutions through which funds flow between lenders and borrowers. This unit covers the financial instruments, techniques and products that are available to savers, investors and borrowers, and examines the framework and markets through which the Commonwealth Government affects the flow of funds. Students will also gain a greater understanding of markets through the unit's evaluation of Government (and Institutional) regulations and supervision.
BS122 Principles of Marketing (previously coded BS250)
Prerequisite – Nil
This is an introductory unit and the prerequisite for all other marketing units. The unit introduces students to marketing; what it is, what it isn’t and how it impacts on the world’s economy. Topics covered in the unit include: market segmentation and consumer behavior; the four P’s of the marketing mix - product, place, price and promotion; the promotional mix and the tools that are used to develop an integrated marketing communications (IMC) plan; marketing research; and, marketing ethics. Students gain an understanding of how the four P’s are interconnected and reliant on each other to create successful products in the market place.
BS160 Principles of Management
Prerequisites: Nil
This unit provides a sound introduction to management and the functions of an organisation. It examines both the classical and contemporary theories of management and organisation behaviour. In so doing, the unit considers motivation, controlling, planning, decision making, control and theories of power, politics, corporate culture and in the context of small and large businesses and entrepreneurial ventures. The intention is to provide the student with a broad base of understanding of general principles of management from which they can choose to specialise.
BS181 Ecotourism and Heritage Management
This unit focuses on interpretation and management techniques in natural and heritage settings. Interpretation is defined as a teaching technique, a service and a management tool to encourage environmental protection. Management techniques are also described for visitors in sensitive natural, cultural and heritage settings. Subjects reviewed include the value of nature and heritage, indigenous perspectives on interpretation and heritage management, tour management and guiding. The unit includes presentations by CALM staff.
BS200 Events Management
The prime objective of this unit is to provide students with a detailed understanding of the processes and practices involved in events management, from the genesis of an idea to conducting the event. Subsidiary objectives include providing students with skills in: critically evaluating an idea, developing a realistic business plan; sourcing finance; managing personnel (especially volunteers); risk management in areas of legal/financial/insurance/social/media etc. Practical outcomes for students include the development of a reference portfolio and a real events management plan from inception to execution. The portfolio will be compiles through materials provided to them and their own research. Students teams will also work with local organisations to develop ideas into events management plans, the presentation of which will form part of their assessment.
BS201 Microeconomic Theory and Policy
Prerequisite: BS100 Business Economics
In this course students will be taught to think like an economist. Various microeconomic problems will be considered using consumer choice theory, inter-temporal consumer choice theory, consumer choice theory with uncertainty, asymmetric information theory, bounded rationality and judgement bias, the theory of the firm and game theory. The primary goal is to instil in the students a disposition to see the world around them in economic terms.
BS202 Macroeconomic Theory and Policy
Prerequisite: BS100 Business Economics
In this subject you will study the various concepts, tools and models of macroeconomics. You will analyse the nature, causes and economic consequences of unemployment, economic growth, financial instability, trade imbalances and inflation, and you will assess the desirability of monetary, fiscal, income and exchange rate policies. The course is especially suitable for those students who are interested in applying theory to solve practical problems.
BS205 Advertising and Promotion
Prerequisites: BS122 Principles of Marketing
This unit introduces students to the concepts of integrated marketing communications (IMC) and asks students to apply the concepts to a “real world” client. The unit encourages students to use their knowledge of principles of marketing and consumer behavior as well as media planning, advertising, and promotions to develop and implement a marketing communications plan for their client. The unit identifies the advantages and disadvantages of using media and promotional tools and challenges students to develop the most appropriate advertising and promotional strategies for their client. Students are then asked to present their communication plan to their client.
BS206 Intermediate Mathematics for Economics and Finance
This unit introduces the students to the mathematical tools that are used on a daily basis within the economics and finance disciplines, including multivariable calculus, constrained optimisation, set theory and matrix algebra.
BS207 The History of Austrian Economics
Prerequisite: BS100 Business Economics
This course aims to acquaint students with key developments in the history of Austrian economics. It begins by considering the wider intellectual climate in which the ideas of Austrian economists emerged in the late nineteenth century. It then examines in more detail the economic thought and economic policy prescriptions of leading Austrian economists in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including Carl Menger, Eugene von Böhm Bawerk, Friedrich Wieser, Joseph Schumpeter and Friedrich von Hayek. The ideas of prominent economists who embraced the Austrian tradition, such as Knut Wicksell and Lionel Robbins, will also be canvassed. The final section of the course considers more recent developments associated with the so-called Austro-American school as an alternative way of understanding the operation of the market economy.
BS208 Topics in Economics
This course is being offered as part of the economics major within the School of Business. It aims to introduce students to a range of topics that have been instrumental in the evolution of economics and that continue to exercise in many instances a substantial influence on contemporary economic theory and policy. The focus will be theoretical, historical and methodological. Topics offered will reflect the research interests of staff and will be selected from the following: the Church Fathers and Scholastic Economic Thought; the Philosophers and Pamphleteers; Pre-classical Economic Thought; Benthamite Utilitarianism and Nineteenth Century Philosophic Radicalism; Classical Economic Thought; Developments in Neo-classical Economic Theory; Austrian capital and trade cycle theories; the Formalist Revolution of the 1950s; Law and Economics; the Chicago School; Knowledge in Economics; Public Choice theory; and Austrian-American Economic Thought. The course is divided into lectures and seminars. The course is essentially a reading course, with private study the major coursework component apart from a research paper that each student must prepare. Students will be expected to make extensive use of reading materials. One research paper must be presented in a summarised, preliminary (not necessarily complete) form in the second half of the course by each student.
BS210 Financial Accounting for Business
Prerequisite: BS110 Accounting
This unit builds on the work covered in BS110, thereby facilitating a more detailed understanding of the preparation, presentation and use of financial statements. The unit introduces the student to accounting for companies and compares and contrasts corporate accounting with accounting for sole traders and partnerships. Company formation, accounting for dividends, tax-effect accounting, reporting regulations, preparation of corporate financial statements, including the Statement of Cash Flows, and financial statement analysis are examined. The subject incorporates the use of case studies in weekly tutorials with students required to give oral and written presentations of their solutions. This unit is a requirement for those wishing to progress their studies through the ICAA, CPAA or NIA professional programs.
BS211 Managerial Accounting
Prerequisite: BS110 Accounting
This unit is designed to introduce the fundamental principles and applications of managerial accounting within both a business and professional environment. Students are introduced to the collection and reporting of cost accounting data in support of the decision making process. Topics covered include the purpose of managerial accounting, cost concepts and terms, cost behaviour and system design and activity based costing. Topics such as cost-volume-profit analysis, cost benefit analysis, short and long run cost structures and the important profit planning issues of budgeting and control systems are considered in the context of information required for managerial decision making. The subject has a high practical component and incorporates the use of various case examples and problems in weekly lectures and tutorials. Students required to present solutions to these problems using structured problem solving and oral presentation techniques covered in prior units. This unit is a requirement for those wishing to progress their studies through the ICAA, CPAA or NIA professional programs.
BS218 Business to Business
Prerequisites: BS230 Business Information Technology
This unit considers that area of e-Commerce known as business-to-business e-Commerce, or B2B. The B2B area is where there are electronic activities between organisations such as retailers, manufacturers, intermediaries, business consumers and governments.
BS220 Managerial Finance (previously coded BS265)
Prerequisite: BS110 Accounting, BS120 Principles of Finance
This unit examines the theory of finance and investment, the environment in which the theory is to be applied, methods of analysis and the finance and investment decisions which must be made in the corporate sector. It is designed for those students needing a solid foundation in their understanding of business finance and investment, and its main objective is to provide a comprehensive understanding of the sources of finance and the ways in which it may be invested. The unit examines factors influencing capital expenditure decisions; valuation approaches; the formulation of the capital structure; capital market environment; working capital and liquidity control; treasury function and goals; investment decisions; and corporate securities and pricing. Included in this examination is a consideration of asset pricing models, portfolio theory.
PS264 Psychology of Work (previously coded BS228)
Prerequisites: Nil for Bachelor of HRM, Bachelor of Commerce students. If in doubt contact your course coordinator
This unit introduces students to the world of work - the ways humans work together, achieve common goals, and contribute to the outputs of an organisation. It considers stress in the workplace, negotiated goals, successful resolution of differences and power relationships.
BS230 Business Information Technology
Prerequisites: Nil
This unit is designed to provide students with a business oriented theoretical knowledge of key areas of ICT, such as hardware, software, networks, the Internet, security, business systems and databases. It also provides practical skills development in relation to file management, spreadsheets, databases and other software applications in order help students understand how software can be used too solve business problems.
BS235 Economics of Financial Crises
Prerequisite: BS100 Business Economics
This unit surveys the various economic theories that have been employed to explain the major financial crises that have occurred through history. Each economic theory is illustrated by tracing the mechanics of a specific financial crisis. The financial crises that are examined include the Tulip Mania of 1636-7, the South Sea Bubble of 1720, the Glasgow Bank Crisis of 1878, the Melbourne Bank Runs of 1893, the Wall Street Crash of 1929, the U.S. Bank Runs of 1931-33, the 1974 Failures of the Franklin National and the Herstatt Banks, the 1987 Stock Market Crash and the NASDAQ Crash of 2000.
BS240 Business Law
Prerequisites: Nil
This unit involves an introduction to the Australian Legal system with special emphasis on the legal and commercial environment of business. Essentially, Business Law covers a wide range of interesting legal topics relating to business. It also teaches students how to analyse and solve legal problems which is essential to those wish to work in the Accounting profession. The subject is a necessary foundation unit for subjects such as Company Law and Taxation Law. Topics include an introduction to the legal system and basic principles of the common law; the law of torts, especially negligence, the law of contracts; Trade Practices; manufacturers obligations; crime in the business context; business organisations and the consequences of incorporation.
BS245 Taxation
Prerequisite: BS110 Accounting (Strongly recommended: Completion of BS210 Financial Accounting for Business and BS240 Business Law)
This unit is designed to acquaint students with one of the Federal Government's principal revenue raising mechanisms, at both State and Federal levels, and the increasing volume of allied legislation. The subject examines the interaction of principles and rules which govern the determination of 'taxable income' and considers the legal and ethical implications and complications associated with a taxpayers status be they an individual, partner, shareholder, company, beneficiary or trustee of an estate. The subject then examines anti-avoidance legislation, penalties, the Taxation Commissioner's enforcement armoury and the taxpayer's rights of appeal.
BS251 Market Research
Pre-requisite: RM100 Research Methods
In this unit students develop an understanding of the scientific method and its importance to our understanding of ourselves, our environment, the economy, consumer behaviour and many other phenomena. The unit introduces students to computer packages EXCEL and SPSS for basic statistical computation. Topics include collection and organisation of data, data quality, hypothesis testing, probability, and probability distributions including normal, t and chi-square distributions, statistical inferences about sample means and sample proportions, correlation analysis and time analysis.
BS258 Public Relations
The organisation (for profit and not for profit) interacts with numerous "others" in the course of its business. This unit aims to educate students from all fields in methods to maximise these interactions. Traditional areas such as communicating with employees and customers are covered, with emphasis also placed on equally important but often neglected groups such as shareholders, the general public, the media, and the different levels of government. Also, the critical elements of fundraising are covered in detail. This unit is relevant for students, business people in large and small companies and the public sector, hospitals, schools, religious orders and a wide range of other organisations. The aim is for students to obtain a "hands on approach" to the field of Public Relations, and assessment tasks are structured accordingly.
BS263 Organisational Behaviour
This unit focuses on individual and group behaviour within an organisation. Topics include organisational behaviour change and management; new technologies; methods of organisational development; leadership, individual behaviour, interpersonal behaviour, group behaviour; organisational structure; systems culture; current topics relating to organisation behaviour and management.
BS266 Industrial Relations
Prerequisite: BS273 Principles of Human Resource Management (previously coded BS121)
The prime objective of the unit is to provide students with the knowledge of the major theories and approaches of industrial relations and the significant parties, eg, unions, arbitral tribunals and management. The legislative framework in Australia is both unique and flexible and reflects changing political approaches. Since the 1990’s changes have reduced the role of the industrial relations institutions and shifted the focus to collective bargaining and employee outcomes at the workplace. The origins and strategies for industrial conflict and its resolution are both a cause for, and an effect on, the employment relationship.
BS273 Principles of Human Resource Management (previously coded BS121)
Prerequisite: BS160 Principles of Management
This unit provides an introduction to the role and functions of Human Resource Management (HRM). Students will examine the history and evolution of HRM, the development of Strategic HRM, and the competencies required by modern human resource practitioners. Students will also examine the functional and strategic roles of HRM in organisations, including performance management, recruitment and selection, learning and development, workforce planning, remuneration and occupational safety and health. This unit provides the basis for 300-level HRM units.
BS283/ES282 Ecotourism and Heritage Management
This unit focuses on interpretation and management techniques in natural and heritage settings. Interpretation is defined as a teaching technique, a service and a management tool to encourage environmental protection. Management techniques are also described for visitors in sensitive natural, cultural and heritage settings. Subjects reviewed include the value of nature and heritage, indigenous perspectives on interpretation and heritage management, tour management and guiding. The unit includes presentations by CALM staff.
BS301 International Business
Prerequisites: BS160 Principles of Management, BS100 Economics
This course deals with the identification, analysis and resolution of managerial issues within the context of firms operating in the international and global environment. Through the study of major issues in the strategic and functional areas of international business operations and the analysis of complex cases and project topics, students will develop skills in analysing competitive forces in global markets and in understanding the basis for successful international strategies.
BS307 Business in Asia
The unit will examine the importance of the Asia-Pacific Region in the context of the global economy. The unit will apply selected concepts and theoretical frameworks of international business to the Asia-Pacific region. Asian firms will be examined with specific attention on the diversity of management cultures and systems in the region. The course will include guest lectures from practitioners in different industry sectors with an emphasis on exporting to, and establishing businesses in Asia.
BS308 Financial Planning
Prerequisite: BS120, BS135, BS145, BS150
One of five units that together satisfy the academic requirements for Financial planners in the Securities, Managed Investments, Superannuation, Deposit products and non-cash payments domains. It covers the skill requirements expected of Financial Planners by taking students through the complete process of interviewing a client, researching suitable solutions, applying them within the context of a formal report and other documentation. Thus it is a very practical unit that acts as the capstone for the Financial planning major.
BS310 Managerial Accounting and Control
Prerequisite: BS211 Managerial Accounting
This unit deals with the role of using accounting information to provide the basis of management decisions. It focuses on analysis of business functions by key activities, transfer pricing, capital investment decision processes, flexible budgeting, profit centre analysis and employee performance management and incentive structures. The impact of both Federal and State taxes are also considered in the context of decision making and performance measurement. This unit is a requirement for those wishing to progress their studies through the ICAA, CPAA or NIA professional programs.
BS311 Accounting for Corporate Entities
Prerequisites: BS210 Financial Accounting for Business and BS240 Business Law. Co-requisites: BS245 Taxation BS310 Managerial Accounting & Control and BS340 Company Law.
This advanced unit examines accounting for corporate entities in some depth and builds extensively on previous work undertaken in BS210Topics considered include an examination of accounting for various forms of Investment, specifically business combinations, consolidations (including direct and indirect minority interests), equity accounting and accounting for joint venture enterprises. Other relevant topics include a broad understanding of accounting and disclosures for financial instruments, foreign exchange transactions (including rudimentary hedge transactions), related parties, segment reporting, lease accounting and share-based payments. Access to the various attributable A-IFRIS accounting standards form a backdrop to an understanding of these topics. In addition to weekly problem-based assignments, the unit also incorporates a reasonably extensive case-based assignment, using published information from Australian listed entities. This unit is a requirement for those wishing to progress their studies through the ICAA, CPAA or NIA professional programs.
BS312 Accounting Theory
Prerequisite: BS311 Accounting for Corporate Entities, BS310 Managerial Accounting & Control, BS245 Taxation and BS340 Company Law.
The unit provides an objective review of the issues in accounting theory. It examines the process of setting accounting standards in a global environment and reviews the existing accounting regulatory process. Additionally the unit considers the various historical and current theories of accounting principles and, specifically, provides an environment for students to critically evaluate and challenge current accounting standards and practices. The subject content and instruction methods are designed to ensure students use their full armoury of imaginative and critical analytic skills to interpret discuss and apply the theoretical, practical and ethical elements of accounting to problem solving. This unit is a requirement for those wishing to progress their studies through the ICAA, CPAA or NIA professional programs.
BS313 Auditing
Prerequisite: BS210 Financial Accounting for Business, BS211 Managerial Accounting, BS220 Managerial Finance and BS240 Business Law. (Highly desirable: Completion of BS245 Taxation, BS311 Accounting for Corporate Entities and BS340 Company Law).
This unit introduces students to the principles and practice of modern auditing. It examines the company audit process, the role and responsibilities of auditors, the regulation of audit performance and user expectations. Major topics include an examination of audit planning, the concepts of materiality and audit risk, evaluation and testing of internal controls, substantive testing of transactions and balances, audit sampling and reporting by auditors. The emphasis will be on the practical application of theory and the development of critical thinking skills. The central theme is the audit of a limited company from initial engagement to the issue of the opinion. This unit is a requirement for those wishing to progress their studies through the ICAA, CPAA or NIA professional programs.
BS314 Human Resource Development
Prerequisite: BS273 Principles of Human Resource Management (previously coded BS121)
This unit focuses on organisational learning and career development. It includes examination of learning theory, training and learning methodologies, and how learning and development can be used strategically to meet current and future skills needs. Contemporary issues in career development and career management will also be examined, along with the measurement and evaluation of training outcomes.
BS315 E-Marketing
Prerequisites: BS230 Business Information Technology. Starting from 2010, BS315 will also require completion of BS122 Principles of Marketing, BS352 Consumer Behaviour and BS205 Advertising and Promotion.
The Internet and other technologies have had a profound effect on the way we do business. This transformation has resulted in new business models that add customer value, build customer relationships, and increase company profitability. This unit considers how the Internet and related technologies affect marketing strategy and tactics.
BS320 Corporate Finance
Prerequisite: BS120 Principles of Finance, BS220 Managerial Finance
This unit further develops the corporate financial concepts covered in BS220 Managerial Finance. It builds on the initial introduction to capital markets and analyses, in depth corporate capital structures and short and long term corporate financing decisions. All elements of long term financing are covered including the issuing debt and equity to the public, the corporate financial aspects of options, warrants and convertibles, leasing and hedging risk. Special topics in this unit include mergers and acquisitions, international corporate finance, and risk management in relation to the uses of derivative products.
BS326 International Finance
Pre-requisite: BS120 Principles of Finance, BS220 Managerial Finance
International Finance deals with the financial policy decisions of a firm in an international environment. Principal topics covered in the unit revolve around the financing options/decisions of multinational firms conducting business in an international arena. In particular, the unit examines: (a) the international financial environment (ie, history of monetary systems, foreign exchange markets, quotations, interest arbitrage); (b) foreign exchange risk management (ie, how multinational firms measure and manage foreign exchange risks and derivative products); and (c) global financing and investment (ie, Eurobonds, equity markets, cost of capital).
BS327 Financial Statement Analysis and Valuation
Pre-requisite: BS210 Financial Accounting for Business, BS220 Managerial Finance
The course provides a framework for using financial statement data in a variety of business analysis and valuation contexts. Students taking the course should have an understanding of the contents of financial statements, how income statements, balance sheets and cash flow statements articulate with each other, and knowledge of important accounting rules. A framework for analysis and valuation is used to make the point that effective financial analysis is a process. The process begins with business strategy analysis, continues with accounting strategy analysis and financial analysis, and concludes with prospective analysis and valuation. The most important part of analysis involves understanding the firm's business strategy and the valuation implications of that strategy. The course places major emphasis on analyzing real world cases.
BS329 Mediation and Dispute Resolution
This unit helps students develop a principled approach to dispute resolution and mediation that can be applied in a variety of situations. The course will involve students in case study approaches and simulations drawn from a range of settings, to illustrate the principles of conflict resolution.
BS337 Advanced Public Relations
Prerequisite BS258 Public Relations
Public Relations is an increasingly important part of successful organisations, assisting them to market themselves, gain new customers, adapt and thrive in environments of rapid and uncertain economic, sociological and technological change. Ideally Public Relations practitioners maximise the public's understanding of and good will towards an organisation, service or product.
This unit concentrates on developing practical PR skills. The principal perspective taken in this course is that of a public relations practitioner. It is also suitable for those wishing to further develop a specialisation in this area.
The unit aims to familiarise students with:
- The strategic role of public relations
- PR research and ethics
- PR tools and tactics
- PR's growing role in marketing
- PR's role in brand building
- Quality PR processes
BS338 Advanced Economics
Prerequisites: BS100 Business Economics, BS103 Quantitative Methods for Business, BS201 Microeconomic Theory, BS202 Macroeconomic Theory and Policy
This course is the capstone unit in the economics major offered within the School of Business. It introduces the students to the leading theoretical models deployed in the discipline of economics. Both microeconomic and macroeconomic models are considered. Introductory economics, intermediate microeconomics and intermediate macroeconomics are pre-requisites.
BS339 Econometrics
Prerequisite: BS103 Quantitative Methods for Business, or any introductory statistics unit offered at an undergraduate level
This course is compulsory within the economics major offered within the School of Business. It introduces the students to the main statistical and econometric techniques deployed on a daily basis within the disciplines of economics and finance. Students who have completed this unit will be sufficiently versed in econometric techniques to enter an honours program in economics.
BS340 Company Law
Prerequisite: BS240 Business Law
This unit aims to enable students to understand the underlying principles of the law regulating companies. Topics include the characteristics of a company, particularly as compared with other business structures; the national cooperative scheme and the role of the Australian Securities Commission and other Federal Government regulatory authorities; the effect of incorporation; the corporate constitution; the company's relations with outsiders; share and loan capital; regulation of public fund raising; duties of company directors, officers and promoters; members' rights and obligations including minority shareholder protection; regulation of takeovers; issues related to corporate insolvency such as receivership and liquidation, particularly as they affect creditors.
BS350 Marketing Strategy
Pre-requisite: BS250 Marketing
This unit covers strategies in marketing and, in line with current thinking, it has some orientation towards the global marketplace. Students will learn that effective strategies can only be developed if a thorough knowledge is obtained of the changing product market environment and the relevant needs of different customer segments. In order to ensure that students become fully involved with a strategic marketing plan, a project, using a team approach, is required to develop a plan for an actual company, club or other organisation that provides a product or services to the public.
BS352 Consumer Behaviour
Prerequisite: BS250 Marketing
Consumption activities are an integral part of daily life. This unit explores the motivations and outcomes of the consumption process, providing a knowledge base that is relevant to many disciplines including marketing, psychology, sociology, economics and anthropology. Ethical considerations of consumption are examined along with other topical issues relevant to purchasing behaviour, such as the effectiveness of specific advertising techniques and the process of attitude formation. Various behavioural models are discussed, providing student with useful tools for analysing their own consumption activities as well as those of consumers in general.
BS354 International Marketing
Prerequisite: BS250 Marketing
This unit analyses the multiple environments of international business. Topics include the effect on the marketing strategy of political, legal, economic, social, competitive and technological conditions in various national markets and in particular, Asian markets; international market entry; product, pricing, distribution and promotion strategies; exporting and importing, international marketing organisation and control.
BS 359 Advanced Marketing Research
This unit will link theoretical knowledge, gained in completing BS251, with practical "hands-on" research experience conducted for private or public sector organisations. Students will complete an approved social science related research projects for a specific client under the direct supervision of the unit coordinator. Participants will design a research project based on research brief, conduct the research project, formally present findings of the research project to lecturer and commissioning organisation using multimedia format, provide copy of printed report to lecturer and commissioning organisations.
BS360 Strategic Management
Prerequisite: BS160 Principles of Management
This unit integrates knowledge obtained from previous and concurrent courses with personal experiences and preferences. A student-centred approach provides opportunity for practice and experimentation in strategy formulation. Emphasis is on how to convert the vision of intuition into definitive plans that can be operationally implemented. Strategic concepts are used to assist the student in making the transition from a change-resistant approach to a change and future-oriented approach characteristic of strategic thinking. Students are advised to take this as a final management unit to obtain maximum benefit.
BS365 Operations Management
Prerequisites: MA120 Quantitative Methods and RM100 Research Methods
This unit deals with the way organisations produces goods and services. The major aspects covered in this unit include: design of products and services in operations management, layout and flow, process technology, forecasting, capacity planning and control, materials management, aggregate planning, master production scheduling, materials requirement planning, total quality management, just-in-time, project planning and control and contemporary issues in operations management such as global competitiveness.
BS368 Change Management
Prerequisite: BS160 Principles of Management
This unit complements BS375/575 Organisational Development. Change Management focuses upon individual differences and how to work with these differences, Organisational Development emphasizes the application of findings from psychology and management to aspects of conceptualising organisational issues and change, and within them leadership, people management and the organisation of work. These two units are designed to equip graduates or undergraduates who are interested in applying knowledge of some aspects of applied psychology in business, industry, the private sector or who are interested in consultancy work. Both are also appropriate as a supplementary unit for students who intend working in an area requiring knowledge of change management and team facilitation.
BS369 Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Prerequisite: BS160 Principles of Management
This unit examines the processes whereby certain organisations achieve high levels of creativity and innovation. It looks at the relationship between innovation and entrepreneurship with particular reference to technology based companies. It provides an introduction to the tools necessary to create a successful new venture whether as a new business or within an existing business. Extensive use is made of case studies including the analysis of the entrepreneurial characteristics of a number of Western Australia based companies
BS370 Strategic Human Resource Management Policy
Prerequisite: BS273 Principles of Human Resource Management (previously coded BS121)
This unit examines the role and functions of Human Resource (HR) policy. It explores how HR policy can be used strategically in organisations and how it can help shape and define organisational culture, as well as ensuring that legal obligations are met. Students will learn how to research, develop and write policy documents covering a wide range of HR issues including performance management, equity and diversity, workplace relations, remuneration, workplace flexibility, leave and attendance management, discipline, employee health and wellbeing and employee development.
BS374 Workplace Issues
Prerequisites: BS273 Principles of Human Resource Management (previously coded BS121)
This unit examines contemporary Human Resource (HR) issues of strategic importance, reflecting current economic and labour market conditions. Topics include attraction and retention, generational change, conflict and stress at work, diversity, workplace flexibility, employee engagement, globalization and HR measurement. Using lectures, discussions, case studies and guest speakers, students explore these issues and their implications for HR practice and HR strategy development.
BS375 Organisational Development
Prerequisites: BS273 Principles of Human Resource Management (previously coded BS121)
Organisational Development (OD) is a systematic change effort, using behavioural science knowledge and skills to assist an organisation to adapt to challenges in the work environment and change the way organisations perform so they becomes stronger in meeting and achieving required outcomes. Through planned interventions, OD helps organisational units and departments to successfully change the way they respond to new challenges – enabling them to perform their work more efficiently and/or effectively. Topics include culture change, organisational diagnosis, OD interventions at individual, team and organisational levels and sustainability. This unit complements BS368/568 Change Management.
BS377 Advanced Human Resource Management
Pre-requisite: BS273 Human Resource Management
In this unit students will consider a range of current issues in relation to the theory and practice of Human Resource Management. Issues covered would include; Human Resource Management in a turbulent environment, HR and the Management of Performance, 360 Degree Feedback, Negotiating Strategically in an Industrial Relations Setting.
BS391 Directed Research Topic
This subject enables students to select and analyse an approved issue within one of the Business disciplines (Accounting, Economics, Finance, Human Resource Management, Management, Marketing, Public Relations or Sport and Recreation). To fulfill the requirements of the unit, students must select and refine an area of research interest, negotiated with the supervisor on an agreed research topic, present a research proposal for approval, conduct the research, and then write and submit a detailed research report.
BS391A Directed Individual Study (Business)
This subject enables students to select and analyse an approved issue within one of the Business disciplines (Accounting, Finance, Management, Marketing or Tourism). To fulfil the requirements of the unit, students must select and refine an area of research interest, negotiated with the supervisor on an agreed research topic, present a research proposal for approval, conduct the research, and then write and submit a detailed research report.
BS393 Business Internship
Prerequisite: Minimum of 300 credit points or 12 completed units with at least four relevant to your major area of study
This internship unit is a compulsory component of all business degrees under the College of Business and must be completed prior to graduation. It is designed to offer an experience which cannot be achieved in the classroom as it allows students to grow in terms of workplace experience, professionalism, application of academia, communication and social interaction skills.
Experiential learning and professional practice are seen as important components of the Business Internship. To replicate the experience of seeking employment, students are expected to locate and negotiate their own internship placement with a host organisation. A total of six weeks experience is required and this may be undertaken at more than one organisation if desired. The Business Internship seeks to maximise the employment and career prospects of our students by providing them with contemporary practical experience in the area of their major field of study and an opportunity to establish valuable networks within the industry of their choice.
Graduate Units
500 LEVEL UNITS
There are no prerequisites for the graduate units other than where stated below.
BS500 Economics for Managers
Prerequisites: Nil
This course is concerned with the nature and significance of economic reasoning. The student will be taught to employ this reasoning to attain a greater understanding of a number of topical social and business questions. These questions include the extent to which markets allocate resources efficiently; the degree to which market restrictions are efficient; the effectiveness of different tax regimes; the relative efficiency of different market structures; the best means by which to control environmental damage; the practicality of the government provision of public goods; and the degree to which the macro-economy is subject to coordination failure. The student will also be made aware of the numerous shortcomings and limitations of economic reasoning.
BS501 International Business
This unit deals with the identification, analysis and resolution of managerial issues within the context of firms operating in the international and global environment. Through the study of major issues in the strategic and function areas of international business operations and the analysis of complex cases and project topics, students will develop skills in analysing competitive forces in global markets and in understanding the basis for successful international strategies.
BS506 The Asia-Pacific Region and the Global Economy
This unit examines the importance of the Asia-Pacific region in the context of the global economy. It aims to provide an understanding of the globalisation of contemporary society, the far reaching changes which have , and will, result from globalisation, and how management and competitive practices are considered on an international scale. The unit applies selected concepts and theoretical frameworks of international business strategy to the entire Asia-Pacific region. It examines Asian firms and business cultures within an international context. It covers major trends which will shape the future of globalisation of world business and of the Asia-Pacific region in particular.
BS510 Accounting for Managers
Prerequisite: Nil
This unit assumes little prior exposure to an accounting subject and aims to provide post graduate students with the skills necessary to understand and evaluate business performance and the role accounting plays in that evaluation. The unit adopts a financial statement user/business management orientation, addressing issues relevant to managing business organisations and understanding financial statements. A primary objective is to develop the student’s abilities to critically analyse and evaluate reasonably complex issues in the context of accounting for, financing and managing business organisations, to a level sufficient to “ask the right questions” and comprehend the responses to those questions.
BS515 E-Marketing
Prerequisites: Nil
The Internet and other technologies have had a profound effect on the way we do business. This transformation has resulted in new business models that add customer value, build customer relationships, and increase company profitability. This unit considers how the Internet and related technologies affect marketing strategy and tactics.
BS5152 Managerial Accounting and Control
Prerequisite: Nil
This unit deals with the role of using accounting information to provide the basis of management decisions. It focuses on analysis of business functions by key activities, transfer pricing, capital investment decision processes, flexible budgeting, profit centre analysis and employee performance management and incentive structures. The impact of both Federal and State taxes are also considered in the context of decision making and performance measurement. This unit is a requirement for those wishing to progress their studies through the ICAA, CPAA or NIA professional programs.
BS5153 Taxation
Prerequisite: BS5161 Accounting (Strongly recommended: Completion of BS5162 Financial Accounting for Business and BS5155 Business Law)
This unit is designed to acquaint students with one of the Federal Government's principal revenue raising mechanisms, at both State and Federal levels, and the increasing volume of allied legislation. The subject examines the interaction of principles and rules which govern the determination of 'taxable income' and considers the legal and ethical implications and complications associated with a taxpayers status be they an individual, partner, shareholder, company, beneficiary or trustee of an estate. The subject then examines anti-avoidance legislation, penalties, the Taxation Commissioner's enforcement armoury and the taxpayer's rights of appeal.
BS5154 Auditing
Prerequisite: BS5162 Financial Accounting for Business, BS5158 Managerial Finance and BS5155 Business Law. (Highly desirable: Completion of BS5153 Taxation, B51631 Accounting for Corporate Entities and BS5156 Company Law).
This unit introduces students to the principles and practice of modern auditing. It examines the company audit process, the role and responsibilities of auditors, the regulation of audit performance and user expectations. Major topics include an examination of audit planning, the concepts of materiality and audit risk, evaluation and testing of internal controls, substantive testing of transactions and balances, audit sampling and reporting by auditors. The emphasis will be on the practical application of theory and the development of critical thinking skills. The central theme is the audit of a limited company from initial engagement to the issue of the opinion. This unit is a requirement for those wishing to progress their studies through the ICAA, CPAA or NIA professional programs.
BS5155 Business Law
Prerequisites: Nil
This unit involves an introduction to the Australian Legal system with special emphasis on the legal and commercial environment of business. Essentially, Business Law covers a wide range of interesting legal topics relating to business. It also teaches students how to analyse and solve legal problems which is essential to those wish to work in the Accounting profession. The subject is a necessary foundation unit for subjects such as Company Law and Taxation Law. Topics include an introduction to the legal system and basic principles of the common law; the law of torts, especially negligence, the law of contracts; Trade Practices; manufacturers obligations; crime in the business context; business organisations and the consequences of incorporation.
BS5156 Company Law
Prerequisite: BS240 Business Law, or BS5155 Business Law
This unit aims to enable students to understand the underlying principles of the law regulating companies. Topics include the characteristics of a company, particularly as compared with other business structures; the national cooperative scheme and the role of the Australian Securities Commission and other Federal Government regulatory authorities; the effect of incorporation; the corporate constitution; the company's relations with outsiders; share and loan capital; regulation of public fund raising; duties of company directors, officers and promoters; members' rights and obligations including minority shareholder protection; regulation of takeovers; issues related to corporate insolvency such as receivership and liquidation, particularly as they affect creditors.
BS5161 Accounting
Prerequisite: Nil
This unit provides an introduction to accounting in both a business and a professional context. The unit examines the fundamental concepts and principles of accounting, the elements of financial statements and the preparation and basic interpretation of the balance sheet and income statement. It also examines broader conceptual, practical and ethical aspects of the accounting discipline. BS5161 also introduces students to oral presentation techniques and to structured problem solving methodology, primarily through the use of an extensive integrated case study and weekly applied problems for discussion. This unit is a requirement for those wishing to progress their studies through the ICAA, CPAA or NIA professional programs.
BS5162 Financial Accounting for Business
Prerequisite: BS5161 Accounting
This unit builds on the work covered in BS5161, thereby facilitating a more detailed understanding of the preparation, presentation and use of financial statements. The unit introduces the student to accounting for companies and compares and contrasts corporate accounting with accounting for sole traders and partnerships. Company formation, accounting for dividends, tax-effect accounting, reporting regulations, preparation of corporate financial statements, including the Statement of Cash Flows, and financial statement analysis are examined. The subject incorporates the use of case studies in weekly tutorials with students required to give oral and written presentations of their solutions. This unit is a requirement for those wishing to progress their studies through the ICAA, CPAA or NIA professional programs.
BS5163 Accounting for Corporate Entities
Prerequisite: BS5162 Financial Accounting for Business and BS5155 Business Law. Co-requisites: BS5153 Taxation BS5152 Managerial Accounting & Control and BS5156 Company Law.
This advanced unit examines accounting for corporate entities in some depth and builds extensively on previous work undertaken in BS5162. Topics considered include an examination of accounting for various forms of Investment, specifically business combinations, consolidations (including direct and indirect minority interests), equity accounting and accounting for joint venture enterprises. Other relevant topics include a broad understanding of accounting and disclosures for financial instruments, foreign exchange transactions (including rudimentary hedge transactions), related parties, segment reporting, lease accounting and share-based payments. Access to the various attributable A-IFRIS accounting standards form a backdrop to an understanding of these topics. In addition to weekly problem-based assignments, the unit also incorporates a reasonably extensive case-based assignment, using published information from Australian listed entities. This unit is a requirement for those wishing to progress their studies through the ICAA, CPAA or NIA professional programs.
BS5164 Accounting Theory
Prerequisite: BS5163 Accounting for Corporate Entities, BS5152 Managerial Accounting & Control, BS5153 Taxation and BS5156 Company Law
The unit provides an objective review of the issues in accounting theory. It examines the process of setting accounting standards in a global environment and reviews the existing accounting regulatory process. Additionally the unit considers the various historical and current theories of accounting principles and, specifically, provides an environment for students to critically evaluate and challenge current accounting standards and practices. The subject content and instruction methods are designed to ensure students use their full armoury of imaginative and critical analytic skills to interpret discuss and apply the theoretical, practical and ethical elements of accounting to problem solving. This unit is a requirement for those wishing to progress their studies through the ICAA, CPAA or NIA professional programs.
BS5158 Managerial Finance
Prerequisite: BS5161 Accounting
This unit examines the theory of finance and investment, the environment in which the theory is to be applied, methods of analysis and the finance and investment decisions which must be made in the corporate sector. It is designed for those students needing a solid foundation in their understanding of business finance and investment, and its main objective is to provide a comprehensive understanding of the sources of finance and the ways in which it may be invested. The unit examines factors influencing capital expenditure decisions; valuation approaches; the formulation of the capital structure; capital market environment; working capital and liquidity control; treasury function and goals; investment decisions; and corporate securities and pricing. Included in this examination is a consideration of asset pricing models, portfolio theory.
BS520 Financial Management
Prerequisite: Nil
This unit emphasises the basic principles, practices and procedures of financial management and their application to business operations. The time value of money and its use in investment valuation and project evaluation is an important part of the course. Also covered are the issues of risk and return, portfolio theory and the capital asset pricing model. The financial decision regarding the use of debt and equity, capital structures and dividend policy is fully analysed and the course concludes with the carriage of short term financial decisions regarding cash, credit and inventory management.
BS524 Corporate Financial Analysis
Prerequisite: BS520 Financial Management
This unit further develops the corporate financial concepts covered in BS250 Financial Management. It builds on the initial introduction to capital markets and analyses, in depth corporate capital structures and short and long term corporate financing decisions. All elements of long term financing are covered including the issuing debt and equity to the public, the corporate financial aspects of options, warrants and convertibles, leasing and hedging risk. Special topics in this unit include mergers and acquisitions, international corporate finance, and risk management in relation to the uses of derivative products.
BS526 International Finance
Pre requisite: BS520 Managerial Finance
International Finance deals with the financial policy decisions of a firm in an international environment. Principal topics covered in the unit revolve around the financing options/decisions of multinational firms conducting business in an international arena. In particular, the unit examines: (a) the international financial environment (ie history of monetary systems, foreign exchange markets, quotations, interest arbitrage); (b) foreign exchange risk management (ie how multinational firms measure and manage foreign exchange risks and derivative products); and (c) global financing and investment (ie Eurobonds, equity markets, cost of capital).
BS527 Financial Statement Analysis and Valuation
Pre requisite: BS510 Accounting for Managers
The course provides a framework for using financial statement data in a variety of business analysis and valuation contexts. Students taking the course should have an understanding of the contents of financial statements, how income statements, balance sheets and cash flow statements articulate with each other, and knowledge of important accounting rules. A framework for analysis and valuation is used to make the point that effective financial analysis is a process. The process begins with business strategy analysis, continues with accounting strategy analysis and financial analysis, and concludes with prospective analysis and valuation. The most important part of analysis involves understanding the firm's business strategy and the valuation implications of that strategy. The course places a major emphasis on analyzing real world cases.
BS528 The Psychology of Work
Only to be offered in exceptional circumstances and with the approval of the Dean of Business.
This unit introduces students to the world of work - the ways humans work together, achieve common goals, and contribute to the outputs of an organisation. It considers stress in the workplace, negotiated goals, successful resolution of differences and power relationships.
BS529 Mediation and Dispute Resolution
This unit helps students develop a principled approach to dispute resolution and mediation that can be applied in a variety of situations. The course will involve students in case study approaches and simulations drawn from a range of settings, to illustrate the principles of conflict resolution.
BS530 Business Information Technology
Prerequisites: Nil
This unit is designed to provide students with a business oriented theoretical knowledge of key areas of ICT, such as hardware, software, networks, the Internet, security, business systems and databases. It also provides practical skills development in relation to file management, spreadsheets, databases and other software applications in order help students understand how software can be used too solve business problems.
BS532 Economic Analyses of Financial Crises
Prerequisites: Nil
This unit surveys the various economic theories that have been employed to explain the major financial crises that have occurred through history. Each economic theory is illustrated by tracing the mechanics of a specific financial crisis. The financial crises that are examined include the Tulip Mania of 1636-7, the South Sea Bubble of 1720, the Glasgow Bank Crisis of 1878, the Melbourne Bank Runs of 1893, the Wall Street Crash of 1929, the U.S. Bank Runs of 1931-33, the 1974 Failures of the Franklin National and the Herstatt Banks, the 1987 Stock Market Crash and the NASDAQ Crash of 2000. Postgraduate students are also expected to examine the mechanics of the crisis from history that is not considered within the lecture sequence and to undertake some original research in the process.
BS533 Advanced Marketing Research
Students will be required to complete an approved social science related research project for a specific client under the direct supervision of the unit coordinator. Participants will design a research project based on a research brief, conduct the research project, formally present findings of the project to the lecturer and commissioning organisation using multimedia format in addition to providing a copy of printed report to lecturer and commissioning organisation.
BS536 Managing People at Work
Pre requisite: BS562, 573, 576, 568, 575 or 535
This unit covers a variety of advanced organisational behaviour issues, which are researched, analysed, developed and experienced. Managing diversity, individual differences (such as, self-concept, personality, values, attitudes, abilities and emotions and how these impact on behaviour), performance appraisal, group dynamics, empowerment, politics, influence tactics and career dynamics. Students are expected to learn about, develop and apply the theory associated with these concepts, based on both individual and groups experiences outside and within the class environment.
BS537 Strategic Public Relations
Public Relations is an increasingly important part of successful organisations, assisting them to market themselves, gain new customers, adapt and thrive in environments of rapid and uncertain economic, sociological and technological change. Ideally Public Relations practitioners maximise the public's understanding of and good will towards an organisation, service or product.
This unit concentrates on developing practical PR skills. The principal perspective taken in this course is that of a public relations practitioner. It is also suitable for those wishing to further develop a specialisation in this area.
The unit aims to familiarise students with:
- The strategic role of public relations
- PR research and ethics
- PR tools and tactics
- PR's growing role in marketing
- PR's role in brand building
- Quality PR processes
BS540 The Legal Environment of Business
This unit examines the main legal structures and rules relating to the operation of business in Australia and in some of her main Asian trading partners such as Indonesia, India, Singapore. Philippines and Japan. The course reviews the legal systems of these various countries and their focus specifically on the laws relating to carrying on business within the country and trading outside the country both within the region and internationally.
BS550 Marketing
This unit provides a grounding in the management principles applied to the marketing process. Strategic planning in employed to develop and implement marketing programs designed to reach appropriate target markets. Promotion, pricing and distribution decisions are considered in line with environmental and organisational resources. Implementation and evaluation procedures are discussed, including structuring and staffing the organisation to execute the marketing plan.
BS552 Consumer Behaviour
Consumption activities are an integral part of daily life. This unit explores the motivations and outcomes of the consumption process, providing a knowledge base that is relevant to many disciplines including marketing, psychology, sociology, economics and anthropology. Ethical considerations of consumption are examined along with other topical issues relevant to purchasing behaviour, such as the effectiveness of specific advertising techniques and the process of attitude formation. Various behavioural models are discussed, providing student with useful tools for analysing their own consumption activities as well as those of consumers in general.
BS554 International Marketing
This unit analyses the multiple environments of international business. Topics include the effect on the marketing strategy of political, legal, economic, social, competitive and technological conditions in various national markets and in particular, Asian markets; international market entry; product, pricing, distribution and promotion strategies; exporting and importing, international marketing organisation and control.
BS557 Marketing Strategy
Pre-requisite: BS550 Marketing
This course provides students with an introduction to and experience with the fundamentals of marketing strategy and planning. It is organised around readings, cases and exercises designed to produce an understanding of how to develop a customer-driven organisation. Key topics in the course include segmentation, positioning, market evolution and forecasting, growth strategies, new product development, use of marketing research, understanding competitive behaviour, performance measurement and resource allocation. Students will participate in a computer-based competitive simulation, which requires them to play the role of strategist, running their own companies and living with the consequences of strategic and tactical marketing decisions. Cross-functional teamwork is an important component of the simulation. Emphasis will be focused throughout the course on conceptual frameworks for understanding marketplace phenomena, current practice, and fun.
BS558 Public Relations
The organisation (for profit and not for profit) interacts with numerous "others" in the course of its business. This unit aims to educate students from all fields in methods to maximise these interactions. Traditional areas such as communicating with employees and customers are covered, with emphasis also placed on equally important but often neglected groups such as shareholders, the general public, the media, and the different levels of government. Also, the critical elements of fundraising are covered in detail. This unit is relevant for students, business people in large and small companies and the public sector, hospitals, schools, religious orders and a wide range of other organisations. The aim is for students to obtain a "hands on approach" to the field of Public Relations, and assessment tasks are structured accordingly.
BS560 Strategic Management
To cope adequately with the ever increasing speed of change in the business environment, it is important to develop and put in place effective strategies to achieve business objectives. This unit takes students through the process of evaluating the external and internal business environment and how this leads to strategy formulation, organisational structural development and the firm's control and implementation issues. Cases and presentations form a major part of the analytical and instructional methods of the unit.
BS562 Management Theory and Practice
This unit focuses on the application of management principles and practices in the real world of administration in service institutions. It emphasises that a manager must manage him/herself first in order to effectively lead others. Topics include leadership, motivation, communication, decision-making, human behaviour and fundamental management concepts.
BS565 Operations Management
This unit deals with the way organisations produces goods and services. The major aspects covered in this unit include: design of products and services in operations management, layout and flow, process technology, forecasting, capacity planning and control, materials management, aggregate planning, master production scheduling, materials requirement planning, total quality management, just-in-time, project planning and control and contemporary issues in operations management such as global competitiveness.
BS568 Change Management
Prerequisites: BS562 Management Theory and Practice
This unit complements BS375/575 Organisational Development. Change Management focuses upon individual differences and how to work with these differences, Organisational Development emphasizes the application of findings from psychology and management to aspects of conceptualising organisational issues and change, and within them leadership, people management and the organisation of work. These two units are designed to equip graduates or undergraduates who are interested in applying knowledge of some aspects of applied psychology in business, industry, the private sector or who are interested in consultancy work. Both are also appropriate as a supplementary unit for students who intend working in an area requiring knowledge of change management and team facilitation.
BS569 Innovation and Entrepreneurship
This unit examines the processes whereby certain organisations achieve high levels of creativity and innovation. It looks at the relationship between innovation and entrepreneurship with particular reference to technology based companies. It provides an introduction to the tools necessary to create a successful new venture whether as a new business or within an existing business. Extensive use is made of case studies including the analysis of the entrepreneurial characteristics of a number of Western Australia based companies.
BS570 Strategic Human Resource Management Policy
Prerequisite: BS573 Principles of Human Resource Management
This unit examines the role and functions of Human Resource (HR) policy. It explores how HR policy can be used strategically in organisations and how it can help shape and define organisational culture, as well as ensuring that legal obligations are met. Students will learn how to research, develop and write policy documents covering a wide range of HR issues including performance management, equity and diversity, workplace relations, remuneration, workplace flexibility, leave and attendance management, discipline, employee health and wellbeing and employee development.
BS573 Principles of Human Resource Management
Prerequisites: BS562 Management Theory and Practice
This unit provides an introduction to the role and functions of Human Resource Management (HRM). Students will examine the history and evolution of HRM, the development of Strategic HRM, and the competencies required by modern human resource practitioners. Students will also examine the functional and strategic roles of HRM in organisations, including performance management, recruitment and selection, learning and development, workforce planning, remuneration and occupational safety and health. This unit provides the basis for 300-level HRM units.
BS574 Workplace Issues
Prerequisites: BS573 Principles of Human Resource Management
This unit examines contemporary Human Resource (HR) issues of strategic importance, reflecting current economic and labour market conditions. Topics include attraction and retention, generational change, conflict and stress at work, diversity, workplace flexibility, employee engagement, globalization and HR measurement. Using lectures, discussions, case studies and guest speakers, students explore these issues and their implications for HR practice and HR strategy development.
BS575 Organisational Development
Prerequisites: BS573 Principles of Human Resource Management
Organisational Development (OD) is a systematic change effort, using behavioural science knowledge and skills to assist an organisation to adapt to challenges in the work environment and change the way organisations perform so they becomes stronger in meeting and achieving required outcomes. Through planned interventions, OD helps organisational units and departments to successfully change the way they respond to new challenges – enabling them to perform their work more efficiently and/or effectively. Topics include culture change, organisational diagnosis, OD interventions at individual, team and organisational levels and sustainability. This unit complements BS368 and BS568 Change Management.
BS576 Ethical Leadership for Today's Organisations
This unit analyses aspects of the 'new thinking' that is currently challenging the traditional, mechanistic world view prevalent for much of last century. The cultural life and espoused values of organisations are examined in the light of decision making, communication networks, research and management structures, leadership style, studied from a value stance that promotes the integration of life and work. Leaders of the future will bring a new style of shared leadership where they will witness to values they espouse in their personal and professional lives. Such leaders will create organisations that will have a service ethic that will ultimately contribute not only to the nations growing economy but to the qualify of life in a democratic society.
BS585 International Maritime Conventions
Pre-requisite: BS540
This unit develops the understanding of the international codes and conventions governing the laws and regulations relating to the transport of goods at sea. An awareness of these international conventions, and the means by which they are enforced nationally, is essential to the operation of shipping and government organisations involved in international maritime trade.
BS591 Directed Business Project
This unit offers an opportunity to students who are interested in doing selected projects to enhance their understanding of the management subjects that they learn during their course. This unit provides the students with a choice of either a contemporary research issue in their area of interest for further investigation or a specific problem in any business or industry of their choice and suggest recommendations. Students are expected to write a research/professional report of between 5000 and 10000 words.
BS5393 Business Internship
Prerequisite: Nil
The Business Internship seeks to maximise the employment and career prospects of our students by providing them with contemporary practical experience in the area of their major and an opportunity to establish valuable networks within the industry of their choice.
This internship is an elective unit undertaken during the final year of your course under the College of Business and must be completed prior to graduation. It is designed to assist the development of industry-ready Graduates and to provide an essential learning experience for those students who have limited work experience. For students already working in a relevant industry, the internship unit provides the opportunity for those students to utilise that experience in a specific way, to reflect on the experience and to relate it to theoretical and applied learning
BS594 Directed Research Unit
This unit enables students to select and carry out research into an approved business topic. To fulfil the requirements of the unit, a student must select an area of research interest, negotiate a research topic with the supervisor and present a research proposal for approval before conducting the research. The student is also required to present a seminar on the outcomes of the research and to submit a research report. Approval to enrol in this unit must first be obtained from the Dean of the School of Business or the Co-ordinator of the MBA program.
BS595 Social Sector Policy and Frameworks
This unit is intended to develop the capacity of current and aspiring leaders in the Not-for-profit / Social Sector to appreciate the environment and the framework in which they operate. The content includes a review of the history and the state of play of the sector in Western Australia in the context of the Welfare State, policy and funding models, Sector articulation and extra-organisational leadership, leadership in co-operative models and sector peak models as well as issues of social justice and mission centricity. The unit will provide candidates with an appreciation of the history, environment, challenges and practical solutions involved in the leadership of a social services sector organisation in Western Australia.
BS596 Social Sector Finance & Governance
This unit is intended to provide leaders and aspriing leaders within the social services sector to gain an appreciation of the requirements for sound financial management and corporate governance associated with the management of Not-for-profit organisations. Specifically, the course will provide participants with the skills to plan, manage and review the financial operations of a social sector organisation and to understand the necessary elements of a corporate governance model applicable to the sector. The unit will be practically based in real-world examples and case studies relative to both financial management and governance and will allow participants to develop a practical, implementation focused set of skills relevent to these areas of Not-for-profit operations. It will introduce students to the foundation legal framework within which Not-for-profits operated in Western Australia.
BS597 Social Sector Human Resources Management
This unit is intended to provide leaders and aspiring leaders within the Not-for-profit sector with a strong understanding of industrial relations, human resources management and human resources planning within the Western Australian Not-for-profit context. The unit review topics such as performance management and reporting, Occupational Health, Safety & Welfare, Recruitment and Retention, topical HRM issues and policy, Industrial Relations and Strategic HRM Planning. Finally, candidates will also be introduced to volunteer recruitment and management.
BS598 Social Sector Marketing and Public Relations
This unit will review the areas of public relations, brand management, marketing, stakeholder management and reputational management within the context of the Western Australian Not-for-profit sector. Topics incorporated into this course include fund raising, stakeholder management and relationship effectiveness, communications management and profile development within a political environment, extra-organisational relationship development and management.
