Business Management

Managing People and Organisations

Explores current management practices and the challenges of managing in contemporary organisations. Examines strategies for effective management and leadership to achieve performance and productivity improvements including change management processes.

Restriction: BUSADMIN 761, 771

Contemporary Marketing

Develops an understanding of the contemporary marketing function and focuses on marketing decision-making, marketing strategy development and tactics. Examines the impact of new technology.

Restriction: BUSADMIN 762, 772

Financial Decision-making

Focuses on decision-making, budgeting and the management of financial resources. Examines value creation from investments, and the management and control of financial assets.

Restriction: BUSADMIN 765, 775

Supply Chain Management

Explores creating value through effective and efficient operations and supply chains for the production and delivery of products and services. Emphasises human, information and sustainability aspects.

Restriction: BUSADMIN 766, 776

Strategic Human Resource Management

Explores how HR strategies can enhance organisational performance and employee well-being. Examines research on contemporary challenges in strategic HRM in domestic and multinational firms.

Restriction: BUSADMIN 761, 771

Strategic Management

Examines the application of contemporary strategic management frameworks, processes and practices. Evaluates alternative approaches to the development of coherent solutions for an organisation’s strategic challenges.

Restriction: BUSADMIN 729, 768, 778

Business Analytics

Develops skills in data-driven decision-making and problem-solving. Applies and evaluates approaches, tools, and analytical methods for effective business data analysis and data visualisation. Takes a systematic and multi-disciplinary approach to help managers drive business success.

Restriction: BUSADMIN 763, 773

Innovation in Practice

Examines strategies for developing an innovation culture and capabilities that will enhance the agility of start-ups and small-to-medium-sized enterprises. Explores opportunity recognition, new product and venture development, risk management, venture financing, and the challenges of SME management.

Global Management - Level 9

Critically evaluates the use and application of tools and techniques for the creation and implementation of global management strategies in diverse types of enterprise. Assesses the effectiveness of global management practices in navigating complex and ill-defined contexts. Develops advanced capabilities in designing and communicating strategy.

Consultancy Practice

Develops the tools and frameworks required to engage in consultancy practice. Engages students in problem framing, identifying and employing appropriate methodologies, and developing and presenting solutions to specific problems. Considers the dynamics of client-consultant relationships.

Digital Marketing Strategies

Focuses on marketing strategy, planning, and implementation in a digital world. Discusses digital transformation and its impact on customer engagement and consumer behaviour. Builds critical skills in online data analytics.

Customer Insights

Develops a critical understanding of possibilities and limitations of customer insights-based marketing strategies and tactics. Explores the application of customer insights tools.

Digital Branding and Advertising

Explores how businesses communicate with customers and other key stakeholders through digital advertising and social media campaigns. Evaluates the effectiveness of advertising, sales promotion, public relations, personal selling, and direct marketing, in a digital world.

Prerequisite: BUSMAN 702

Advanced Marketing Strategy

Examines current and emerging research in digital marketing and evaluates contemporary practice. Focuses on the development, implementation and management of effective marketing strategies to attain and achieve a sustainable competitive advantage.

Prerequisite: BUSMAN 702

Human Resource Policy and Practice

Evaluates the policies and practices involved in the core processes of HRM and builds students’ professional skills in assisting organisations to design and implement these policies and practices effectively.

Employment Law

Analyses and applies the legal principles governing the employment relationship. Specific topics include bargaining, personal grievances, enforcement of employment contracts, strikes and lockouts, the rules regarding holidays, and health and safety obligations.

Human Resource Analytics

Develops the tools and frameworks for gathering and analysing data on workforce skills, attitudes and behaviours and building models of how these variables influence business and employee outcomes.

Consultancy Project in Strategic Management - Level 9

A research-informed consultancy project with a company or other appropriate organisation with written and oral reports of the findings.

To complete this course students must enrol in BUSMAN 750 A and B, or BUSMAN 750

Consultancy Project in Digital Marketing - Level 9

A research-informed consultancy project with a company or other appropriate organisation with written and oral reports of the findings.

To complete this course students must enrol in BUSMAN 751 A and B, or BUSMAN 751

Consultancy Project in HRM - Level 9

A research-informed consultancy project with a company or other appropriate organisation with written and oral reports of the findings.

To complete this course students must enrol in BUSMAN 752 A and B, or BUSMAN 752

Business in Society

Examines the role of business in society, how businesses interact with government and other institutions, and how businesses can contribute to solving the key challenges of the twenty-first century.

Organisations and Culture

Explores the role that managers play in building the structure and culture of organisations. Examines key issues in organisational design, culture, behaviour and structures. Develops skills in managing multigenerational and multicultural workforces.

Effective Decision Making

Techniques and tools to support and facilitate managerial decision-making. Builds skills in understanding organisations and their problems through numerical analysis.

Restriction: BUSADMIN 763

The Global Economy and New Zealand

Considers the nature of the global economy and the opportunities for small trading nations such as New Zealand. Examines key issues, global trade, and how governmental policies impact businesses. Explores how New Zealand can become a more productive and prosperous nation.

Professional Development

Develops key interpersonal strategies and communication skills to become an agile, reflective professional and to manage the professional self effectively and cooperatively in a range of business environments. Enhances the emerging manager’s ability to lead and influence others in both cross-cultural contexts and uncertainty.

Communicating Business Insights

Equips students with the ability to utilise data visualisation tools and techniques in crafting and adapting data communication strategies for different types of audiences. Develops critical evaluation of the presentation of data and the implications for ethical communication.

Managing People and Organisations

Focuses on the foundations of organisational behaviour and managing within the workplace. Examines the challenges that managers and leaders face in managing people and organisations.

Principles of Business Analytics

Focuses on fact-based and data driven-decision making in a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) world. Introduces and examines tools and approaches to support decision making through an understanding of data and structured thinking.

Financial Reporting and Control

Focuses on essential accounting knowledge for effective resource allocation and for quantifying, assessing, and communicating information about the health of the enterprise.

Economics for Managers

Examines attributes and behaviours of consumers, firms, markets and institutions and their impacts on the macroeconomy. Focuses on the micro- and macro-economic aspects of market actors from a managerial perspective.

Strategy Capstone - Level 9

Examines the logics and processes of strategy formulation and implementation. The course involves extensive business situation case analysis and a 'real world' business project requiring creative and innovative recommendations typical for a capstone experience.

Prerequisite: 60 points from BUSMGT 711–714 with at least a B- average

Strategic Management - Level 9

Advanced analysis of corporate and competitive strategy with a focus on innovation, diversification and strategic change. Uses a case-based approach to evaluate the strengths and limitations of different perspectives for creating an appropriate strategy.

Prerequisite: BUSMGT 711-714 with at least a B- average

Business Analytics

Focuses on fact-based and data driven-decision making in a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) world. Examines decision biases and tools to overcome decision making under VUCA, particularly through critical and structured thinking.

Business Technology

Explores emerging technologies and how they impact on business strategies. Examines data-driven decision-making and develops an understanding of innovation culture and capabilities and how these can be harnessed to improve business outcomes.

Strategy Capstone Project

Advanced analysis of corporate and competitive strategy, spotlighting innovation, diversification, and strategic evolution. Assess various perspectives via case studies to devise fitting strategies. Explore strategy formulation and implementation through immersive case analysis and a 'real world' project.

Prerequisite: BUSMGT 711-714, 718 with at least a B- average

Global Operations Management - Level 9

Advanced analysis of global operations management. Evaluates the design, management, and improvement of operations in goods and services organisations and critiques strategies to improve global supply chain performance.

Prerequisite: 60 points from BUSMGT 711–714 with at least a B- average

Financial Reporting and Accounting

Provides overview of financial accounting principles within New Zealand and the understanding and application of New Zealand Financial Reporting Standards. Focuses on the role of financial statements play in investment, analysis and contracting decisions.

Prerequisite: 60 points from BUSMGT 711–714 with at least a B- average

Business Finance

Examines the functions of the markets for real and financial assets, and their valuation. Focuses on the various techniques that financial managers can create wealth for shareholders and stakeholders.

Prerequisite: 60 points from BUSMGT 711–714 with at least a B- average

Analysing Financial Statements - Level 9

Advanced analysis of financial statements and the assessments of an organisation's performance. Evaluates tools and techniques used to measure and assess risk and value through an applied project.

Prerequisite: 60 points from BUSMGT 711–714 with at least a B- average

Strategic Management Accounting

Critically analyses the role of strategic management accounting in facilitating strategic decision making and sustainable value creation. Evaluates strategic cost management tools and techniques, budgetary control systems and performance measurement through an applied project.

Prerequisite: 60 points from BUSMGT 711–714 with at least a B- average

Management Accounting

Design and management of revenue and cost management systems. Analysis of Budgets and standards, costing system, cost systems for decision-making and control, performance appraisal, and contemporary related issues.

Prerequisite: 60 points from BUSMGT 711–714 with at least a B- average

International Business Environment

Provides an understanding of macro-environment issues that businesses operating internationally face. Develops students' analytical thinking and decision making skills with the use of analytical tools and case studies.

Prerequisite: 60 points from BUSMGT 711–714 with at least a B- average

Restriction: INTBUS 723

International Trade and Finance

Provides an understanding of the trade and financial environments within which organisations operate. Focuses on the challenges organisations face when making business decisions with regard to international trade and finance.

Prerequisite: BUSMGT 711–714 with at least a B- average

Restriction: INTBUS 725

Competing in Asia - Level 9

Develops highly specialised knowledge about the changing institutional and business environments in key economies in the Asia-Pacific region. Requires independent research and analysis to critically evaluate the implications of such changes for innovation, business strategy and understanding customers.

Prerequisite: BUSMGT 711–714 with at least a B- average

Restriction: INTBUS 727

International Business Strategy

Explores strategic aspects of managing a firm in an international context. Emphasises the development of skills to understand and analyse the issues that firms face in operating in international markets and value chains, and the emergence and development of business and corporate level international business strategy.

Marketing Management

Focuses on the core concepts and principles of marketing theory and practice using examples from New Zealand and overseas.

Prerequisite: BUSMGT 711-714 with at least a B– average

Understanding Consumers - Level 9

Examines the consumer perspective in marketing through application of theories and frameworks. Includes independent appraisal of research methods suitable for generating insights into business. Reviews current and emerging research in Consumer Behaviour to evaluate contemporary practice.

Prerequisite: BUSMGT 711-714 with at least a B– average

Marketing Communications - Level 9

Analysis of the individual components of the marketing communications mix. Critically evaluates the role of marketing communications in supporting brand, product and service strategy.

Prerequisite: BUSMGT 711-714 with at least a B– average

Strategic Digital Marketing

Examines current and emerging research in marketing communications and evaluates contemporary practice. Focuses on the effective integration of digital strategies in marketing planning, implementation and practice.

Prerequisite: BUSMGT 711–714 with at least a B- average

Branding Strategy

Develops the essential frameworks and tools for operating in specialised marketing agencies such as advertising, branding, media, PR, or similar. Examines the work of marketing agencies, and equips students with a mobile repertoire of practical skills required by marketing agencies.

International Human Resource Management

Examines the management of international workforces in multinational corporations. Explores the impact of culture on managing people in cross-border contexts.

Human Resource Policy and Practice

Evaluates the policies and practices involved in the core processes of HRM and builds students professional skills in assisting organisations to design and implement these policies and practices effectively.

Prerequisite: BUSMGT 711-714 with a B– average or higher