This unit is designed to provide students with the knowledge and skills required for understanding, analysing and solving corporate financial management issues. The focus is corporate-oriented with emphasis on the practical application of economic theory in financial decisions confronting business today.

Contemporary Organisation Behaviour has been designed to offer you tools which can help you manage people in an increasingly complex organisational climate. Therefore, the objectives of the unit focus on critically evaluating how organisations, groups and teams, and individual behaviour, can affect work performance and productivity.

Developing competitive advantage in a globalised business context demands that leaders recognise the imperative of managing stakeholders during periods of significant and complex organisational strategic change.The focus of ‘Emerging Leaders’ is the development of skills and knowledge that underpins capacities for successful strategic partnering both within and outside the organisation. Engaging with the research and debates on leadership as they relate to current leadership practice and principles in various international and organisational contexts means these newly emerging leaders will be in a position to lead and ensure the performance of individuals, teams and organisations.

This unit addresses one of the key internal issues facing business today: understanding and using a range of business information to make strategic decisions. Students will use the knowledge gained from prior units to solve business problems, deal with unique situations or plan and manage changing circumstances. A multi-disciplinary approach to analyse business situations will be applied to enable students to recognise this inter-related nature of business disciplines. A simulated practice in the application of knowledge to complex situations will be applied to provide an experiential learning environment.

In an economy where products, marketing campaigns and management practises are ever changing, business executives are increasingly recognising that understanding the value of their customers is vital to the survival of the business. Loyal customers are what every organisation seeks. However, increasingly complex supply/demand relationships also result in ‘promiscuity’ among customers. Therefore, it is crucial that managers have the skills to not only strive for excellence and consistency in product-centric perspectives, but also foster and strengthen those that are customer-centric. This unit fundamentally examines the opportunities and challenges in: a) identifying customers, b) adding value to supplier/consumer relationships, including tools that firms/organisations can use to provide value for customers while ensuring profitability over the entire life of the relationship.

The aim of this unit is to provide students with the necessary skills to understand, execute and manage entrepreneurial innovation processes in firms/organisations, and be more prepared to succeed within an increasingly complex, global and highly competitive entrepreneurial environment. Firms/organisations of various sizes, including small and medium enterprises (SMEs) that are innovative and entrepreneurial provide vision, nurture creativity and idea management as part of their everyday activities and in seeking long-term sustainability.

This unit introduces students to the application of basic economic concepts to managerial decision-making and their use in a range of business environments. Students will learn how to apply microeconomic tools to common problems facing business managers, such as maximising profit, setting prices, creating efficient incentive structures, and selecting competitive strategies. Case studies are also used to demonstrate the value of microeconomic tools in making business decisions, and to foster the student’s application of their learning to their own business environment.

Strategic Management integrates business functional knowledge. The practical approach provides opportunities to use a range of strategic analysis tools and to engage in problem-solving (individually and collaboratively). Simulated strategic decision-making that includes data interpretation and generating options requires exercise of communication, research, and information literacy capabilities. This unit will allow MBA graduates to interpret data, generate strategic options and contribute to strategic decision-making in a number of organisational contexts.

Corporate governance is the set of processes, policies and laws affecting the way a firm is directed, administered or controlled. This unit examines corporate governance systems and how these may contribute to sustainable enterprise. Models of corporate governance are analysed, and decision-making processes are evaluated in various economic and social contexts. The unit also introduces the institutions of the legal system, with particular emphasis on domestic and international corporations law.

Negotiation has become a strategic necessity for many firms wishing to survive and grow in today's increasingly competitive globalised economy. Negotiation and conflict resolution errors can be costly to direct and indirect stakeholders. As such, Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Management will provide theoretical frameworks for students to develop the practical skills needed to manage the negotiation and conflict resolution needs of any organisation. Through the use of role play and simulations, students will be required to analyse corporate data and apply strategies to create a negotiated agreement. It examines negotiation in different contexts including multiparty negotiations. Emphasis is also placed on causes of conflict and how to identify potential indicators, leading to an analysis of the different conflict modes and patterns.

This integrative unit focuses on the first one hundred days of a business executive who has commenced in a new management role. Students will gain insights into the challenges facing managers today and develop the skills in leadership and management expertise that were introduced in earlier units. The premise of this unit is that regardless of their level of experience, all managers undertaking new responsibilities need to understand who the key stakeholders are and what the business’ personnel practices, financial objectives and marketing strategies are. Students will be given scenarios covering a range of business environments and are expected to problem solve these using the skills and knowledge learned in previous units.

This is a unit in which students will have individual responsibility for the timely completion of a significant project under the guidance of a member of the University’s academic staff. Students will be required to take a real business issue or problem and apply the relevant theories, frameworks and/or concepts learned throughout the MBA. Projects should focus on issues that would be addressed by senior management within an organisation, and should apply a consultancy perspective. This is the capstone unit. Students should take it as their last unit of study.