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Master of Business Administration (212PN) // Attributes, outcomes and skills
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About this course
Coordinator
Jim Frederickson
Contact
Melbourne Business School
Currently enrolled students:
Degree Program Services
*this course is in phase out stage and does not accept new students
Intended learning outcomes
Students undertaking the program should:
- gain an understanding of the nature of general management and the role of the manager;
- acquire the basic analytical skills, concepts and knowledge of management from the fields of accounting, economics, finance, information management, marketing, operations and the social and behavioural sciences;
- analyse and develop strategy for an enterprise as a whole, considering its context;
- develop the capacity to diagnose managerial problems, to find solutions in innovative ways and to make decisions on a wide range of management responsibilities, often in complex conditions;
- understand the wide and varied range of issues involved in implementing management decisions in practice, including an understanding of the cultural, social and political environment and the moral context of management decisions;
- develop personal and interpersonal skills while working with small and large groups;
- take responsibility for aspects of their own learning progress through syndicate participation and application of their own management experience through case and class discussion and presentations, thereby also building self-confidence;
- build a capacity to respond with self-insight, flexibility and ethical sensitivity to the changing social and economic context of business;
- participate in the academic and social life of the School and the University, developing lifelong associations and a foundation for on-going learning.
Last updated: 30 January 2024