The Master of Business Management now offers ten unique specialisations to uplift your degree with future-focused business outcomes. Please talk to our course consultants for more information.
- Digital Communications
- Digital Law
- Advanced Project Management
- Applied Analytics
- Foundations in Analytics
- Foundations in Project Management
- Health Administration
- Public Health
- Human Resource Management
This course is structured in three parts: Part A. Business management foundation, Part B. Specialisation studies, and Part C. Application studies.
All students complete Part C. Depending upon prior qualifications, you may receive credit for Part A or Part B or both.
Note: If you are eligible for credit for prior studies, you may elect not to receive the credit.
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These units will introduce you to business management practice at an advanced graduate level. They are designed to extend your ability to manage an organisation while building on existing professional work experience.
Leadership for organisational advancement
Unit Code: LEO5001
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Duration: 6 weeks
Description:
Leadership emerges in new forms to meet the the challenges of organisations becoming increasingly virtual, complex, and dynamic. This unit explores the future focused practice of leadership and prepares participants to influence others ethically in emergent environments, without the reliance on formal authority, whilst providing you with the opportunities to reflect on your personal experiences of leadership and further develop your leadership practice.
Strategic management for agile organisations
Unit Code: LEO5002
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Duration: 6 weeks
Description:
In the age of disruption, competitive landscapes become increasingly inter-connected, digital, and dynamic. To remain sustainable an organisation’s business model and internal processes including operations, marketing, and information management, must keep pace with environmental change. This unit prepares students to focus on the realisation of strategies in adaptive, aligned, and agile organisations. It will also provide opportunities to develop your understanding of strategy and business model design for agile organisations.
Innovation and new value creation
Unit Code: LEO5003
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Duration: 6 weeks
Description:
Entrepreneurs (and organisational intrapreneurs) who embrace innovation can create and commercialise new technology and monetise intellectual property, setting their organisations apart in a competitive environment, even re-defining an industry. Students will explore the adoption and impact of technological advances, especially artificial intelligence and digital transformation, that prepares you for the challenge of innovation. This unit will build on foundational models and concepts of innovation and creativity, and you will undertake a critical review of your collective experience of ideation, creativity, and design thinking, that extend your ability to contribute to organisational innovation.
Financial management and resource utilisation
Unit Code: LEO5004
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Duration: 6 weeks
Description:
Rapid changes in competitive models and capital markets create new challenges for organisations to manage the resources necessary to compete, particularly financial resources. To support on-going organisational performance and to inform decisions for organisational transformation, the organisation’s financial management and resource utilisation must align with the organisation’s strategic intent. Building on foundational concepts and a critical review of resource allocation and control systems, the unit will extend your practical understanding of financial management.
The focus of these units is to develop your expertise in a discipline and provide the knowledge and skills needed to work across the borders of context or discipline.
You must complete four units from one of the following specialisations or a combination from any specialisation
Build a thorough understanding of how the world of communications is adapting to digital technology, and the emerging opportunities for organisations that embrace this change.
Principles of global communications
Unit Code: APG5191
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Duration: 6 weeks
Description:
In the fast-changing world of globalisation and communications, ‘Principles of global communications’ will provide foundation knowledge and skills in the understanding of political economy and the power of media ownership. Representation and social media will be a particular focus, together with an understanding of the roles played by audiences, media reception and consumption. Digital disruptions in industries across diverse sectors will be further explored in the context of the complexities posed by policy, regulation, data and privacy. This unit also has a focus on networked communications.
Strategic communications in a digital era
Unit Code: APG5192
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Duration: 6 weeks
Description:
Strategic communication in a digital era further explores broad debates in the core concepts and theories of strategic communication across public, private and non-government sectors in a global context. In today’s societal world anyone from politicians, to business leaders, to environmental and human rights groups, as examples, lean to the fields of communications and media to advance their strategic aims and goals. Sources, strategies and ethics will be further analysed together with a particular emphasis on the complexities of new social movements and communication for development. These distinct ethical considerations are critical to professional communications in a digital era.
Data analytics in communications
Unit Code: APG5193
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Duration: 6 weeks
Description:
Data analytics in communications is an introduction to the role of big data in the field of strategic communications. Data analytics is discussed and interpreted to assist in providing insights to the processes of communication. A key emphasis will be on social network analysis in which digital data will be gathered, analysed and visualised in the context of communication flows. Google search trends will be further explored, together with a focus on distinct ethical, legal and public interest implications raised by the use of big data.
Marketing principles in a digital world
Unit Code: MKO5916
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Duration: 6 weeks
Description:
Marketing principles in a digital world examines the concepts and theories of marketing and applies them within a digital context. The unit will explore developing a marketing orientation through value, whilst understanding consumer behaviour in a digital world. The role of marketing in the creation of value for stakeholders, together with using contemporary tools to understand consumers and their needs will be a key focus. Product development in a digital world, creating value through pricing and capturing value through distribution will also be analysed. Strategic marketing tools to design and implement effective competitive strategies will be appraised and selected to create value through marketing ethics, sustainability and CSR.
Ready yourself for a dynamic career, working across the legal fields currently navigating the crossroads between technology and the legal system.
Foundations of law in the digital world
Unit Code: LAW5800
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Duration: 6 weeks
Description:
‘Foundations of law in the digital world’ will introduce you to legal processes and principles in a digital context. This unit teaches you the fundamentals of how to analyse the laws and regulations that govern data and technology, making it ideal for students who have entered the course without previously studying law. You will then apply legal principles to authentic digital technology and law scenarios with a range of practical work.
Ethics, policy and governance
Unit Code: LAW5802
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Duration: 6 weeks
Description:
In ‘Ethics, policy and governance’ questions about the governance, ethics and accountability of new technologies are raised. Your learning will focus on debates about the theories, principles and values that should guide the development and application of digital technologies. You will also evaluate the governance methods that currently exist and consider what other methods should be introduced the minimise the risks associated with new technology.
Dimensions of digital technology
Unit Code: LAW5801
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Duration: 6 weeks
Description:
As technology evolves and continues to advance into the future, so must the law that governs it. ‘Dimensions of digital technology’ provides you with the technical knowledge required to understand the fundamental aspects of the digital world and how its technologies intersect with the law. You will examine key technologies and systems such as artificial intelligence, data collection and surveillance technologies and consider how existing legal principles can be adapted.
Fundamentals of privacy law
Unit Code: LAW5803
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Duration: 6 weeks
Description:
New digital technologies raise vital questions and concerns about how we address privacy issues. In ‘Fundamentals of privacy law’ you will be introduced to the concepts of privacy, digital technology, data and the law. You will also examine the Australian Privacy Principles in the Commonwealth Privacy Act and how they apply to businesses and other non-governmental bodies.
Learn advanced marketing knowledge and skills, and use them to make socially responsible decisions to support business objectives and create unique customer experiences.
Marketing principles in a digital world
Unit Code: MKO5916
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Duration: 6 weeks
Description:
Marketing principles in a digital world examines the concepts and theories of marketing and applies them within a digital context. The unit will explore developing a marketing orientation through value, whilst understanding consumer behaviour in a digital world. The role of marketing in the creation of value for stakeholders, together with using contemporary tools to understand consumers and their needs will be a key focus. Product development in a digital world, creating value through pricing and capturing value through distribution will also be analysed. Strategic marketing tools to design and implement effective competitive strategies will be appraised and selected to create value through marketing ethics, sustainability and CSR.
Social media marketing
Unit Code: MKO5601
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Duration: 6 weeks
Description:
Social media marketing will analyse and critically review the social media landscape. Social media marketing strategy, social campaigns and IMC – including Strategies and viral will be further explored. Students will be able to advise and authenticate how organisations can utilise social media to build an in-depth understanding of customers and stakeholders, including the social media customer, social networks and communities. Consumer behaviour and critics of social media marketing will also be analysed to debate and critically reflect on how ideas spread through social media and devise strategies to meet consumers’ needs and wants.
Integrated marketing communications
Unit Code: MKO5926
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Duration: 6 weeks
Description:
Integrated marketing communications utilises industry based and theoretical frameworks and processes to prepare an integrated marketing communications plan. The plan will focus on realistic integrated marketing communication objectives and targeting, demonstrating the use of individual and integrated strategies. Tactics relating to marketing communications, message and media decisions will also be recommended and justified. Influences affecting the efficient achievement of integrated marketing communication objectives including budget, resource allocation, project management and environmental pressures will be evaluated. Broader marketing communication industry issues, offering insight and analysis based on research will be assessed, taking into account ethics and measurement.
Digital marketing
Unit Code: MKO5881
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Duration: 6 weeks
Description:
Digital marketing critically reflects on how traditional marketing structures, concepts, techniques and activities translate into the digital marketing medium. The digital customer journey will be further explored, together with digital business models. An integrated perspective of how digital marketing contributes to value creation for all stakeholders will be a key focus. Search engine marketing, mobile marketing and the role of social in digital marketing will be critically reviewed to create and develop innovative digital solutions to fulfil identifiable needs. Emerging technologies will be adapted and implement, together with theory and practice to the rapidly evolving digital marketing environment.
Explore the theory that underpins the successful management of projects, programs, portfolios and business strategy, and apply it as you lead project and program endeavours, grounded in project management methodologies.
The organisational context of project development
Unit Code: OPO4000
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Duration: 6 weeks
Description:
This unit provides a comprehensive review of the organisational context in which project proposals are developed and evaluated. Within the project lifecycle, this unit focusses on the project development phase, which encompasses the initiation process and also includes early activity in planning, executing, and monitoring and controlling. Projects are conceived, evaluated, supported, and delivered both internal and external to the organisation. The unit emphasises engagement with project stakeholders, and the impact organisational structure, culture, politics has on these activities.
The dynamic context of project delivery
Unit Code: OPO4001
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Duration: 6 weeks
Description:
Projects are dynamic and the role that project leaders play in managing capabilities, resources, and changing expectations is critical. You will develop the ability to critically analyse and apply insights regarding the professional standards and project performance criteria of project delivery. Within the project lifestyle cycle, this unit focuses on the project delivery phase, which also includes activity in planning monitoring and controlling and closing.
The planning approach to project management
Unit Code: OPO4002
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Duration: 6 weeks
Description:
This unit provides a critical review of the planning approach to project management, including waterfall or cascade techniques. In relation to the project lifestyle cycle, you will develop the ability to critically apply a diverse range of methods, techniques and tools associated with the planning approach from development through delivery.
The learning approach to project management
Unit Code: OPO4003
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Duration: 6 weeks
Description:
This unit focuses on the learning approach to project management. You will develop the ability to critically apply a diverse range of methods, techniques and tools associated with the learning approach that span the project life cycle from development through delivery.
Specialising in Advanced Project Management will give you the expertise and confidence to successfully deliver complex projects with advanced practices and principles.
The rise of project-based organisations
Unit Code: OPO5000
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Duration: 6 weeks
Description:
The project-based organisation (PBO) is rapidly emerging as a genuine organisational form. This unit addresses the environmental forces that give rise to project-based organisations ensuring alignment with strategic objectives, and the creation of value for the organisation. Also, you will investigate what leadership is, how it translates and you will critically analyse the requirements from leadership to guide the PBO.
The project as a social system
Unit Code: OPO5001
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Duration: 6 weeks
Description:
The perception of projects as a process is critically examined and challenged with concepts from systems thinking and complex adaptive systems. Soft-systems thinking is required of project managers and tools project managers can use are examined to better understand and engage the project pathway that emerges. Furthermore, how projects operate as sociocultural systems are explored— that is, the interplay of people’s assumptions, values, beliefs, politics, power, influence, and technology that contribute to the project as a social system.
Project management for organisational innovation
Unit Code: OPO5002
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Duration: 6 weeks
Description:
Project managers require a range of techniques to deal wth projects that may be volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous. This unit will explore the need for project managers to develop bespoke approaches which address the unique requirements of innovation-driven projects. With a focus on design thinking, you will evaluate the requirements of a specific (disruptive) innovation and propose a unique project design to achieve the organisation’s goals.
Managing project knowledge
Unit Code: OPO5003
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Duration: 6 weeks
Description:
The unit explores the role of knowledge networks in project delivery. It focuses on developing an understanding of how project managers acquire and exchange knowledge, and how this knowledge impacts their projects. The unit incorporates concepts and theories from various disciplines aligned to project management and knowledge management but takes the next step of what is arguably the end goal of our knowledge management system, the application and use of the knowledge we have.
Foundation in Analytics provides the foundational knowledge needed to apply problem-solving and creative thinking to the needs of business, science and society.
Introduction to data analysis
Unit Code: ETO5510
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Duration: 6 weeks
Description:
‘Introduction to data analysis’ focusses on core aspects of business analytics and helps develop your oral and written communication skills. You will learn how to source and collect data, read the data into suitable software, tidy data for analysis, build models and create visualisations to help with effective decision making.
Introduction to Python
Unit Code: ITO4133
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Duration: 6 weeks
Description:
‘Introduction to Python’ teaches programming fundamentals and the Python language. You will develop a foundational understanding of program design and implementation of algorithms. This unit will cover basic input and output, program control structures, basic data structures and problem solving strategies.
Mathematical foundations for data science and AI
Unit Code: MAT9004
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Duration: 6 weeks
Description:
Data science draws on a foundation of strong mathematical principles. In ‘Mathematical foundations for data science and AI’ you will acquire a practical understanding of mathematical topics fundamental to computing and statistics, including: trees and other graphs, counting in combinatorics, principles of elementary probability theory, linear algebra, and fundamental concepts of calculus in one and several variables.
Statistical data modelling
Unit Code: FIT5197
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Duration: 6 weeks
Description:
The basis of data science is mathematical, in particular statistical modelling. In ‘Statistical data modelling’ this aspect of data analysis is given pride of place, with a focus on how modelling is used in a wide range of professional contexts. By working through case studies and industry-relevant examples, you will learn about analytic tasks, including: statistical hypothesis testing and exploratory versus confirmatory analysis. Similarly, you will acquire skills in a range of concepts fundamental to data modelling and prediction, including: basic probability distributions; random number generation and simulation; and estimation methods such as maximum likelihood estimators, Monte Carlo estimators, Bayes theorem, bias versus variance and cross validation.
By specialising in Applied Analytics, you will gain the expertise to unearth the compelling stories that lie behind raw data.
Collaborative and reproducible practices
Unit Code: ETO5513
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Duration: 6 weeks
Description:
‘Collaborative and reproducible practices’ aims to enhance your teamwork skills to create reproducible data analyses. You will learn how to work effectively with a group to construct a collaborative data story. These skills are practised in a team setting data analysis group project.
Data visualisation and analytics
Unit Code: ETO5922
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Duration: 6 weeks
Description:
Businesses have large amounts of data about customers and operations that require skilled analysts to interpret. In ‘Data visualisation and analytics’ you will learn how to use data visualisation to analyse datasets. This unit will include examples from marketing, finance, economics and related disciplines to give you a wide range of experience.
Introduction to accounting analytics
Unit Code: ACO5160
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Duration: 6 weeks
Description:
‘Introduction to accounting analytics’ combines accounting and data analytics that are integral to decision making. You will learn how to identify questions, download data, perform testing and communicate your results. You will gain the skills to compare different analytical tools to determine which one is best suited for each problem.
Predictive analytics in business
Unit Code: ACO5170
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Duration: 6 weeks
Description:
‘Predictive analytics in business’ introduces you to Big Data and predictive analytics using financial information. You will learn hands-on skills to manage large-scale financial databases and build predictive models that support strategic and investment decision making. The unit will introduce you to SQL coding and develop your skills in SAS statistics software.
A specialisation in Health Administration will give you unique insights from a business perspective into health systems, policies and organisations.
Health systems and policy
Unit Code: MPH5301
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Duration: 6 weeks
Description:
‘Health systems and policy’ provides health service managers and public health practitioners a comprehensive understanding of the major components of national health systems, and how health policy is continually adapted to reform these systems. Over 6 weekly modules, you will explore relevant policy theories, stakeholders and policy actors and processes that address major health policy challenges. Each module includes an overview of the relevant concepts and resources; guided readings; and online, instructor-moderated discussions of applied issues with your peers.
Biostatistics: Concepts and applications
Unit Code: MPH5302
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Duration: 6 weeks
Description:
Biostatistics is the science of describing, summarising and analysing health-related data. ‘Biostatistics: concepts and applications’ introduces you to biostatistics as applied to public health and management studies. You will acquire the technical knowledge to analyse and interpret data on a descriptive and bivariate level, covering topics that include: classification of health data; summarizing data using simple statistical methods and graphical presentation; sampling distributions, quantifying uncertainty in results from a sample; statistical distributions; comparing two/more groups/methods using confidence intervals and hypothesis tests (p-values); assessing the association between an outcome and an exposure using the chi-squared test; risk comparisons (RR & OR); prediction of an event or identifying risk factors for an event of interest where the event is measured on a continuous scale or a binary scale (yes/no); sample size calculations.
Developing health systems
Unit Code: MPH5308
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Duration: 6 weeks
Description:
Health systems, whether in developing or developed countries, must continually adapt to emerging challenges, which is why health sector reform is an ongoing process. ‘Developing health systems’ contextualises these challenges. By assessing a recent case study of health care reform, you will have the opportunity to explore alternative conceptual frameworks for analysing health care systems, with an emphasis on the “control knobs framework”, which describes the key levers of a health care system, and how these levers work to influence outcomes of interest such as equity, cost, financial risk protection and quality of care.
Healthcare and financial management
Unit Code: MPH5318
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Duration: 6 weeks
Description:
The provision of effective healthcare is an essential component of contemporary society. As the average life expectancy increases, so does the expectations and demand of healthcare. These community expectations on healthcare delivery and demand have greater financial costs. Coupled with advances in health technology result in challenging social and financial implications.
Students in this unit will examine the basic accounting, financial reporting, budgeting and financial business planning concepts applicable to the healthcare sector. Learners will examine and apply how such principles and techniques are used by healthcare professionals to aid strategic, operational and service delivery decision making.
Healthcare improvement and learning systems
Unit Code: MPH5316
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Duration: 6 weeks
Description:
Health care improvement science is crucial for translating new knowledge into practice and delivering the best possible patient care. ‘Healthcare improvement and learning systems’ provides students with the skills and knowledge to develop and implement health care improvement projects in clinical settings and develop solutions for gaps in health care through considered data management and stakeholder engagement. You will learn about translating and mobilising new knowledge and engage with community and service users to conduct healthcare improvement projects and lead innovation, while exploring key concepts that include change management strategies, strategies to enable knowledge sharing, data collection, and managing information systems.
Healthcare and economic management
Unit Code: MPH5317
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Duration: 6 weeks
Description:
‘Healthcare and economic management’ explores the complexities of care delivery in the evolving world of health services. Healthcare delivery and funding are intertwined, which means that fluency in health economics is essential. In this unit, students will explore concepts of resource allocation and analyse and compare funding for competing health needs. It will also include critical analysis of the impact of innovation and how this is incorporated into current health care funding.
With a specialisation in Public Health, you will deepen your understanding of the challenges facing the sector and emerging healthcare innovations.
Health systems and policy
Unit Code: MPH5301
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Duration: 6 weeks
Description:
‘Health systems and policy’ provides health service managers and public health practitioners a comprehensive understanding of the major components of national health systems, and how health policy is continually adapted to reform these systems. Over 6 weekly modules, you will explore relevant policy theories, stakeholders and policy actors and processes that address major health policy challenges. Each module includes an overview of the relevant concepts and resources; guided readings; and online, instructor-moderated discussions of applied issues with your peers.
Biostatistics: Concepts and applications
Unit Code: MPH5302
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Duration: 6 weeks
Description:
Biostatistics is the science of describing, summarising and analysing health-related data. ‘Biostatistics: concepts and applications’ introduces you to biostatistics as applied to public health and management studies. You will acquire the technical knowledge to analyse and interpret data on a descriptive and bivariate level, covering topics that include: classification of health data; summarizing data using simple statistical methods and graphical presentation; sampling distributions, quantifying uncertainty in results from a sample; statistical distributions; comparing two/more groups/methods using confidence intervals and hypothesis tests (p-values); assessing the association between an outcome and an exposure using the chi-squared test; risk comparisons (RR & OR); prediction of an event or identifying risk factors for an event of interest where the event is measured on a continuous scale or a binary scale (yes/no); sample size calculations.
Occupational health and safety
Unit Code: MPH5309
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Duration: 6 weeks
Description:
The way we work is changing, as new technology and working patterns continute to emerge. ‘Occupational health and safety’ contextualiuses OHS in its contemporary context. You will gain knowledge of a range of topics, including: the institutional and human cost of occupational disease and injury, occupational health and safety law, frameworks for primary prevention, workers’ compensation systems, occupational rehabilitation, case studies highlighting historical achievements and challenges, international and national occupational health and safety (OHS) organizations.
Foundations of health promotion
Unit Code: MPH5306
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Duration: 6 weeks
Description:
This unit introduces you to key principles of health promotion. You will examine health promotion frameworks and theories that are used to promote health at a population level to compliment and contrast individual treatment. You will examine the values and principles that guide contemporary health promotion and its capacity to influence the determinants of health. You will also develop an understanding of needs assessment, priority setting, using evidence and theory to make intervention choices and program evaluation. The roles played by partnerships, capacity building and participation will be explored, and the steps toward improving program sustainability are examined.
Foundations in public health
Unit Code: MPH5313
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Duration: 6 weeks
Description:
In ‘Foundations in public health’ you will examine the foundational aspects of public health, with a focus on contemporary challenges. You will apply this knowledge to critically appraise initiatives that address complex health issues from a public health perspective, and will have the opportunity to engage with current public health issues and communicate their ideas clearly and effectively.
By specialising in human resource management, you’ll focus on the latest modern HR strategies and challenges.
These units will provide a deep-dive into contemporary solutions and trends to observe future workplace challenges with a focus on diversity, inclusion and wellbeing.
People and change
Unit Code: MGO5100
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Duration: 6 weeks
Description:
This unit introduces definitions, key concepts, and frameworks for understanding the practice of organisational change. The unit explores planned and unplanned change in depth, by exploring the benefits, challenges, and opportunities associated with both approaches to change. The unit is founded in evidence-based research and practice-based application which guide implementation in contemporary organisations. The unit content has been developed to promote inquiry, acknowledge the realities of contemporary management, and incorporate new learning about change processes and outcomes, to help employees, managers, and organisations thrive in uncertain times.
Sustainability and performance in human resource management
Unit Code: MGO5110
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Duration: 6 weeks
Description:
This unit explores workforce sustainability and performance in contemporary human resource management. It provides relevant theories and frameworks to understand how organisations can sustainably engage with people in times of uncertainty and change. Students will gain knowledge and skills to develop their capacities to become innovative future-ready managers who are able to reflect on current and emerging human resource challenges and opportunities and apply people management knowledge to complex organisational issues to contribute to workforce sustainability and performance.
Ethics and legal issues in human resource management
Unit Code: MGO5120
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Duration: 6 weeks
Description:
This unit introduces key concepts and frameworks for understanding legal and ethical context in human resource management. The unit is founded in evidence-based research and practice-based applications which guide implementation in contemporary organisations. The unit content has been developed to promote inquiry, acknowledge the realities of contemporary legal and ethical challenges and apply new learning in uncertain times.
Diversity and inclusion
Unit Code: MGO5130
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Duration: 6 weeks
Description:
This unit introduces definitions, key concepts, and frameworks for understanding the scope of workplace diversity and inclusion. It presents the case for D& I, including the benefits, challenges and opportunities. The unit is founded in evidence-based research and practice-based applications which guide implementation in contemporary organisations. The unit content has been developed to promote inquiry, acknowledge the realities of contemporary management and incorporate new learning about the contribution of D&I to help employees and organisations thrive in uncertain times.
Undertake professional and project work that can contribute to a portfolio of professional development.
Business transformation
Unit Code: LEO5130
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Duration: 6 weeks
Description:
A key challenge for organisations and leaders is the implementation of system-wide changes to fundamental processes, products, services, culture and/or ways of doing business. Digital transformation is a key example of these major change initiatives confronting many organisations. Current conditions within organisations include volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity thereofre you need to be increasingly adept at managing and implementing change. Different approaches to implementing and managing transformation, including planned change approaches, emergent change approaches and agile are introduced, explored and applied.
Industry project 1
Unit Code: LEO5113
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Duration: 6 weeks
Description:
This capstone unit focuses on applied research and is linked with industries and businesses who provide real-world projects to students to work on. The projects will present a real-world problem and require you to to solve it virtually, in an online learning environment.
This course will enable you to integrate your leadership capabilities, professional skills and technical expertise into a meaningful experience that will consolidate and extend your learning in the program.
IPA will be external focus. IPB students will focus on their own organisation or choose one that they have access to.
Industry project 2
Unit Code: LEO5114
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Duration: 6 weeks
Description:
This capstone unit focuses on applied research and is linked with industries and businesses who provide real-world projects to students to work on. The projects will present a real-world problem and require you to to solve it virtually, in an online learning environment.
This course will enable you to integrate your leadership capabilities, professional skills and technical expertise into a meaningful experience that will consolidate and extend your learning in the program.
IPA will be external focus. IPB students will focus on their own organisation or choose one that they have access to.
Professional development
Unit Code: MGO5992
Contact Hours: 20-24 hours of study per week
Duration: 6 weeks
Description:
Overall, this unit will enhance your value to potential employers, and help you become successful, and assist with your long-term career goals and aspirations. The focus is on building your capacity to drive and support your own professional development. Self-reflection iis central to being a successful leader and this unit builds upon your capacity to achieve your career goals and will develop your ability to market yourself effectively.
