Courses - Faculty of Business And Economics
Business Administration
Postgraduate 700 Level Courses
Business Law
Examines the legal environment of business, contract law, legal rules governing the management of businesses, directorships and partnerships, selected aspects of the Commerce Act and the Fair Trading Act.
Restriction: BUSADMIN 705, 784
Management
Core theories and their implications for the art and practice of management in modern organisations.
Restriction: BUSADMIN 771
Marketing
Customer value and value-creation in markets and the implications for marketing, marketing decision-making, and marketing strategy development.
Restriction: BUSADMIN 772
Quantitative Analysis
Quantitative analysis theory, techniques, and tools to support and facilitate managerial decision-making. Includes financial, statistical, and operational modelling.
Restriction: BUSADMIN 773
Accounting
The 'language of business' and related knowledge essential for effective resource allocation and for assessing and communicating the accounting performance of the firm.
Restriction: BUSADMIN 774
Finance
Describes the role of the financial manager in the creation of wealth for shareholders and stakeholders. Examines the working of the markets for real and financial assets, including techniques for their valuation. Assesses the potential for wealth creation from investment (or divestment) in real assets, the firm's mix of financial assets, and mergers, acquisitions and divestments.
Prerequisite: BUSADMIN 764
Restriction: BUSADMIN 775
Supply Chain Management
Creating value through effective and efficient operating and information systems in both product and service-based firms. Emphasises process inter-relationships and infrastructural requirements.
Prerequisite: BUSADMIN 763
Restriction: BUSADMIN 776
Economics
Examines consumers, firms, markets, business cycles, behaviours, and policy formation from both micro- and macroeconomics perspectives in a managerial context.
Restriction: BUSADMIN 777
Strategy
The science and practice of strategic thinking and entrepreneurial action. Examines the logics and processes of opportunity recognition and competitive strategy formation and implementation in national and global contexts for a variety of enterprise types. A case-intensive course requiring extensive analysis of business situations and the preparation and communication of pragmatic, 'real world' recommendations.
Prerequisite: 60 points from BUSADMIN 761-764 and an additional 30 points from schedule of the Postgraduate Diploma in Business
Restriction: BUSADMIN 729, 778
Managing Organisations and People
The theory and practice of organising, managing, and leading within the workplace and the implications for both business efficiency and effectiveness.
Restriction: BUSADMIN 761
Marketing for Growth
Processes which shape and drive buyer behaviour and value creation for both customers and enterprise. Examines the nature of marketing, marketing decision-making, and the development of marketing strategies for both consumer and business-to-business markets. Emphasises marketing to achieve substantive growth.
Restriction: BUSADMIN 762
Modelling and Analysing for Management
The use of quantitative models to facilitate managerial decision-making through systematic analysis. It covers an overview of quantitative modelling techniques and their application to business problems. The course is multi-disciplinary in nature and links to a number of functional areas including accounting and finance, marketing and operations management.
Restriction: BUSADMIN 763
Financial Reporting and Control
Accounting is the language that pervades organisations and markets because it is used to engage and measure commercial transactions and to determine performance. This course covers accounting knowledge essential for effective resource allocation and for quantifying, assessing, and communicating information about the economics and performance of the enterprise.
Prerequisite: BUSADMIN 773
Restriction: BUSADMIN 764
Financial Management
Assesses the role financial managers play within the management team as they seek to create wealth for shareholders and stakeholders. Examines the working of the markets for real and financial assets, including techniques for their valuation. Assesses the potential for wealth creation from investment (or divestment) in real assets, the firm's mix of financial assets, and mergers, acquisitions and divestments.
Prerequisite: BUSADMIN 774
Restriction: BUSADMIN 765
Operations and Supply Chain Management
Focuses on the development of important managerial skills needed to ensure the continuing effective contribution of an enterprise's productive processes and information systems to its competitive position and performance. Emphasises learning about the complex operations and infrastructure required for (1) product development and manufacture and (2) service design and delivery.
Prerequisite: BUSADMIN 773
Restriction: BUSADMIN 766
Business Economics
Micro- and macroeconomic aspects of consumers, firms, markets, business cycles, and policy formation from a managerial perspective. Examines attributes and behaviours of units comprising the economy – consumers, markets, individual firms, and industries – as well as the nature, roles, and impacts of policy-making on the macroeconomy.
Prerequisite: BUSADMIN 773
Restriction: BUSADMIN 767
Strategic Management
The art, science, and practice of strategic thinking and entrepreneurial action. Examines the logics and processes of opportunity recognition and competitive strategy formation and implementation, in both national and global contexts, for a variety of enterprise types. A case-intensive course requiring extensive analysis of business situations and the preparation and communication of pragmatic, 'real world' recommendations.
Prerequisite: 90 points from BUSADMIN 771-777
Restriction: BUSADMIN 729, 768
Managing Business Growth
A project-based course in which teams take on the role of planning the growth of an enterprise. It examines possible growth strategies and provides practical experience in identifying, assessing, and valuing strategic opportunities for growth.
Prerequisite: BUSADMIN 768 or 778
Leadership and Ethics
Alternative leadership styles, self-knowledge, and the dynamics of leadership as a vital process. Examines the nature, need for, and impacts of creativity, responsibility, and probity in enterprise leadership and related communications.
Prerequisite: BUSADMIN 768 or 778
Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Contemporary theory and practice of entrepreneurship and innovation in small-to-medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Topics include opportunity recognition, new product and venture development, risk management, and venture financing.
Prerequisite: BUSADMIN 763 or 773, and 768 or 778
International Business
Creates understanding of the strategic aspects and actual delivery of international business development within today’s multi-cultural organisations. Focuses on the challenges faced by businesses. Emphasis on the preparation and negotiation of contracts and partnerships across borders and (corporate) cultures.
Prerequisite: BUSADMIN 768 or 778
Managers and the Law
Impact of the law on management of the enterprise. Legal requirements, issues, and mechanisms critical to achieving the strategic objectives and managing the risk/reward profile of the firm. Identification of sources of potential legal problems. Law and the international business environment.
Prerequisite: BUSADMIN 768 or 778
Restriction: MAORIDEV 721
Contemporary Topics in Management
Contemporary issues and topics which impact the formulation and administration of management policy.
Prerequisite: BUSADMIN 768 or 778
Advanced Professional Development
Students develop their personal professional skills in order to make a difference in organisations in the future. Personal portfolios reflect individual competences and advancement in conceptual thinking, facilitation, written and oral presentation skills including the use of new media.
Prerequisite: BUSADMIN 768 or 778
Organisational Studies
Selected theories, principles and concepts applicable to contemporary management thought and related productive activities.
Prerequisite: BUSADMIN 768 or 778
