Juris Doctor/Master of Business Administration (794NF) // Attributes, outcomes and skills

Intended learning outcomes

Students undertaking the program will gain:

• Analytical tools, concepts and knowledge of management from the fields of accounting, economics, finance, information management, marketing, operations and the social and behavioural sciences;
• Skills to analyse and develop strategy for an enterprise as a whole, considering its context;
• Skills to develop the capacity to diagnose managerial problems, in order to identify innovative solutions and to make decisions on a wide range of management responsibilities, often in complex environments;
• The ability to understand the wide and varied range of issues involved in implementing decisions in practice, including an understanding of cultural, social and political environments, and the moral context of legal and managerial decisions;
• High level personal and interpersonal skills through working with small and large groups;
• Judgement, leadership and diplomacy skills;
• Skills in negotiation, policy analysis, advocacy and mediation;
• Intercultural communication skills;
• The ability to take responsibility for aspects of their own learning progress through syndicate participation and application of their own professional experience through case and class discussion and presentations, thereby also building self confidence;
• Skills in identifying and responding to ethical dilemmas;

• Skills in reading and comprehending legal materials, notably reports of decided cases and legislation;
• Logical analysis and reasoning skills;
• Oral presentation skills in both legal analysis and argument as well as business presentations;
• Writing skills, including proficiency in developing an argument and supporting it with properly cited authority;
• Research skills, including computer-aided research;
• Skills in understanding the interrelationship of facts and law, and in identifying the factual information needed to sustain legal propositions;
• Strategic skills in considering a range of options in response to a legal problem, and then in identifying those options that best meet the needs of the client;
• Interdisciplinary skills in relating legal materials and problems to non-legal areas of discourse, particularly within the management of organisations;