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Executive Management 4 (BUSA90508)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 25On Campus (Parkville)
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- Assessment
- Dates and times
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Overview
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This subject contains four components, as described below.
Accounting II:
This component addresses a range of financial and managerial accounting issues including:
- Accounting for financial assets
- Accounting for cost-based assets
- Accounting for financial liabilities
- Costing products and services
- Contribution margin analysis
- Relevant costs and benefits
- Financial and non-financial performance measuremen
Managing Human Capital:
This component is designed to examine how and why people management influences firm performance. It reviews data supporting and linking organisational performance and people management. It covers strategies and practices that can effectively unlock the productive potential of employees’ human and social capital. It also considers how leaders can best evaluate the effectiveness of people management practices. Key topics include:
- Sustainable Competitive Advantage
- Portfolio of high performance human resource practices
- Strategic Alignment
- Human Capital Metrics
The component is based on the assumption that as working professionals, participants already have some fundamental awareness of issues related to managing human capital. The component will build on that background to extend participants’ theoretical knowledge and applied skills.
Ethical Leadership:
In Ethical Leadership, students learn about the societal context in which business operates, together with the skills for reasoning about ethical problems which arise in this context. The component examines the various stakeholders of business and discusses the obligations of corporations to those stakeholders. It considers strategies for achieving corporate social responsibility goals, taking into account both the ethical case and the business case for such strategies. The component also examines a range of alternative approaches to moral reasoning as well as the applications of those approaches to the complex and dynamic ethical problems that confront leaders of modern organizations.
Seminar IV:
This Executive MBA Seminar Series complements the mainstream components of the module, and is dedicated to contemporary issues and global best practice development in the Business Strategy, Accounting II and Economics of Globalisation fields.
Intended learning outcomes
Accounting II:
On completion of this component students should be able to:
- Classify investments for financial reporting purposes and justify the classifications
- Classify costs as direct costs or indirect costs for a particular cost object
- Classify costs as variable costs, fixed costs, or mixed costs
- Apply contribution margin analysis to various managerial decisions
- Assess whether a cost is relevant or irrelevant for a particular decision
- Apply relevant cost analysis to various managerial decisions
- Using balanced scorecards for performance evaluation
- Distinguish net income from residual income
- Identify appropriate performance measures given the company’s strategy
Managing Human Capital:
On completion of this component students should:
- Diagnose people-related problems and issues in organisations
- Determine which human capital management tools to apply to address organisational problems and opportunities
- Be able to design and develop a portfolio of high performance human resource practices
- Be able to contribute to management projects in the area of human capital metrics
Ethical Leadership:
On completion of this component students should:
- Have an understanding of the different approaches to moral reasoning and the limitations of these different approaches;
- Be able to apply various kinds of moral reasoning in the analysis and resolution of ethical problems;
- Understand the different forms that corporate social responsibility can take;
- Have a critical understanding of the business case for corporate social responsibility;
- Have an appreciation of the ethical dilemmas that arise in persuasion and communication with stakeholders, including customers, workers, and shareholders;
- Understand how consumers’ purchase decisions are influenced by their ethical frameworks.
Seminar IV:
On completion of this component students will be able to:
- Understand and discuss contemporary and advanced issues in the field
- Recognise and apply global best practice models
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
Enrolment in the Master of Business Administration (MC-BAEV) course
Code | Name | Teaching period | Credit Points |
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BUSA90506 | Executive Management 2 | June (On Campus - Parkville) |
25 |
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Assessment
Additional details
The components Accounting II, Managing Human Capital and Ethical Leadership are equally weighted as 30% each. Seminar IV is weighted as 10%. In order to pass the subject, students are required to pass each component.
Accounting II:
- Contribution to class learning (attendance at lectures, peer and instructor evaluation of contribution to class learning), throughout the module (20%)
- Individual assignment (500 words), due at beginning of module (10%)
- Final examination (hurdle requirement; 2 hours; 2000 words), taken at end of module (70%)
Managing Human Capital:
- Contribution to class learning (attendance at lectures, peer and instructor evaluation of contribution to class learning), throughout the module (20%)
- Final examination (hurdle requirement; 2.5 hours, 2500 words), taken at end of module (80%)
Ethical Leadership:
- Contribution to class learning (attendance at lectures, peer and instructor evaluation of contribution to class learning), throughout the module (20%)
- Individual assignment (hurdle requirement; 2500 words), due end of module (80%)
Seminar IV:
- Class Participation (attendance at lectures, peer and instructor evaluation of contribution to class learning), throughout the module (10%)
- Individual Assessment (hurdle requirement; Module Reflection & Application) (1500 words), due 2 weeks after completion of the residential module (90%)
* The Individual Assessment underpins the critical application of ideas in the module to workplace practice. It is a reflective, integrative element that crystallises the executive-level learning experience.
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Dates & times
- November
Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 60 hours Total time commitment 280 hours Pre teaching start date 23 November 2019 Pre teaching requirements students are required to complete approximately 30 hours of readings to prepare for the subject during pre-teaching period Teaching period 30 November 2019 to 8 December 2019 Last self-enrol date 25 November 2019 Census date 2 December 2019 Last date to withdraw without fail 3 December 2019 Assessment period ends 8 December 2019
Time commitment details
280 hours
Additional delivery details
Students are required to undertake 30 hours of reading during the pre-teaching period. Reading material will be available via reading packs.
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
There are no specifically prescribed or recommended texts for this subject.
- Subject notes
This subject is ONLY available to students enrolled in the Master of Business Administration (MC-BAEV) program.
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Type Name Course Master of Business Administration
Last updated: 3 November 2022