Online MBA Course Structure

With the new world of work comes new challenges for business leaders. This subject reflects on the evolving workplace landscape and examines the knowledge and skills you need to promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, productive employment and decent work for all (UN SDG 8). You investigate the impact of the changing world of work on your personal leadership style and how you lead others. You will also review contemporary approaches to strategy, strategic thinking and planning processes. Through industry guest presenters and workshop activities you interpret and analyse capabilities to meet organisations workplace challenges.

In this subject you will develop knowledge and skills in financial management. The subject will facilitate advanced understanding of financial management policy and application, and how financial management decision-making affects the risk, growth and profitability of firms and, combining these elements, firm valuation outcomes. You will consider financial management outcomes, and particularly the underlying goal of the maximisation of the valuation of the firm, through the key decision-making areas investment, financing and distribution decisions. In turn, this will incorporate the consideration of the requisite usage of debt and equity financing and the need for efficient management of working capital to ensure adequate liquidity and short-term resource and cash flow availability.

Examine the theory and practice of modern management in contemporary organisations. and critically evaluate current thinking on organisational design, strategy, and managing employees and operations to adapt to the current world of work. Through application of different philosophical perspectives to practical case studies, you will explore the opportunities and constraints in designing innovative, flexible, and adaptive organisations that promote sustainable economic growth and productive employment. You will assess and apply management theories and practices to optimise changes in organisational design and culture that fosters equality (UN SDG 5) and employee well-being (UN SDG 3).

In this subject you will gain a critical understanding of the role and functions of accounting information in business decision making.  These include the use of information in external financial reports as a basis for evidence-based financial judgements and how managers use a range of internal financial and non-financial information to make strategic decisions.   Independently and with others, you will work on various activities including case studies to become a judicious user of accounting information. You will also explore the role of accounting and associated reporting of broader ethical and social issues.

You will be provided with a solid foundation of contemporary marketing concepts designed to assist you in making critical marketing decisions. Particular emphasis is placed on assessing marketing trends and the associated strategic and tactical frameworks that give rise to the formulation and implementation of marketing plans. You will draw on your experience as a manger to undertake a review of a marketing case study and deploy marketing tools to solve a real-world marketing problem.

Data-driven decision making will be an increasingly important topic in business in the coming years. Non-analytics business professionals will need to work with analytics professionals to derive business value, and vice-versa.

In this subject, you will develop selected hard and soft skills necessary for successful analytics in practice, from the perspective of both non-analytics business professionals and analytics professionals.

Furthermore, you will address competencies such as Issue Identification, Problem Structuring, Method Selection, Data Gathering, Conducting Analysis, Developing Conclusions and Recommendations, Structuring Written Materials, Oral Communications, and Presentation Skills. You will also build competencies such as Visualising Data and brief third parties regarding desired analytics.

You will learn and experience these skills through a real-world project, either focused on our local community or a business.

This subject provides a contemporary approach to strategy formulation and implementation. The emphasis is on design-thinking and creative ideation for solving problems and strategy execution in a rapidly changing global environment. Independently and with others, you will explore and apply concepts that offer a basis for solving complex strategic issues facing organisations. You will conceptualise and validate solutions to a problem using an evidence -based analysis.

In this subject you will explore the evolving role of business in society through the lens of responsible leadership. Taking a multi-level perspective, you will critically analyse the intersection of social responsibility with a range of approaches to leadership, including stakeholder theory and shared leadership. Working individually and with other students you will evaluate contemporary organisational leaders and yourself against leadership frameworks; and you will critically reflect on how organisations, leaders, and managers can more effectively ‘avoid harm’ and ‘do good’.