MGM5962 · Contemporary management

Overview

This unit introduces essential management concepts and practices to prepare you for postgraduate business studies. You will explore the core functions of management including planning, organising, leading, and controlling while examining contemporary challenges such as digital transformation, cross-cultural collaboration, ethical leadership, and sustainability. Emphasising people management and organisational dynamics, the unit encourages you to apply management thinking to real-world contexts and begin developing skills in communication, decision making, and team leadership.

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

The Handbook lists no prerequisite, corequisite or prohibition for this unit.

Learning outcomes

1. critically apply and evaluate relevant management theories and concepts to interpret real-world organisational challenges and propose evidence-informed solutions across diverse business contexts
2. collaboratively design and deliver coherent, persuasive, and audience-sensitive management communications that demonstrate analytical thinking and strategic clarity in response to complex business issues
3. evaluate and integrate diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) frameworks into management practice, justifying inclusive strategies that promote ethical leadership and cross-cultural collaboration in globalised business environments.

Workload

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. Independent study may include associated readings, assessment and preparation for scheduled activities. You are expected to complete all pre-class activities prior to your scheduled class, and post-class activities should be completed after your scheduled class. Learning activities may include a combination of teacher directed, peer directed and online engagement activities.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.