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Executive Management 7 (BUSA90511)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 25Dual-Delivery (Parkville)
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- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
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Overview
Availability | March - Dual-Delivery |
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Fees | Look up fees |
This subject contains four components, as described below.
Mergers & Acquisitions:
M&As are important corporate events that allow companies to achieve a wide variety of strategic goals including; new market access, logistical arrangements, operational efficiencies and portfolio diversity.
This component takes a broad-based, strategic approach to M&A activity and includes the following topics:
- An overview of the M&A landscape and history
- Criteria for successful M&As
- Strategic considerations in M&A activity
- Due diligence for M&A
- Valuation in M&A – theory and application
- Regulation of M&A and deal-structuring in Australia
- Planning and implementing post-merger integration
Leading in Transformational Times:
This component is structured around the critical question: When a company is going through a transformational situation, what is Top Management‘s (TM) role in the transformation and how important are they? In addition, the subject considers both theoretical and methodological issues in addressing three major issues related to leadership of transformational situations:
- In recent years, transformation has moved to the core of the TM agenda, but what does TM really do in transformational times?
- What are the conditions of effectiveness and the practices of leadership at TM level? To investigate this question the course revisits the classical notions of legitimacy, authority and power and their new forms of enactment in contexts of transformation.
- How to organise governance systems and processes in situations of transformation?
Corporate Governance:
Corporate Governance addresses the system by which companies are directed and controlled. Structures relating to rights and responsibilities, and rules and procedures for decision-making, are covered. Governance involves the alignment of interests amongst stakeholders. This component includes the following topics:
- The governance model
- Duties and obligations – the law and practice
- Corporate sustainability
- Governance in the Asian context
- Boards and executive teams
Seminar VII:
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 Mergers & Acquisitions, Leadership and Corporate Governance fields.
Intended learning outcomes
Mergers & Acquisitions:
On completion of this component students will:
- Understand of the context in which mergers and acquisitions take place
- Recognise the importance of strategy in decisions to acquire
- Understand the importance of due diligence
- Be able to apply valuation models in M&A transactions
- Understand the areas of law relevant to the regulation of M&A
- Be able to illustrate the application of the price multiples and discounted cash flow (DCF) valuation methodologies in M&A
- Recognise the key issues in planning post-merger integration.
- Be able to analyse the different types of takeover bids that may be made and their implications
- Promote understanding of the critical importance of reaping expected synergies.
Corporate Governance:
On completion of this component students will be able:
- To review the literature on corporate governance theories, consider their application to corporate structures and define the key players
- To understand the legal obligations of directors and officers under the Australian Corporations Act and to consider the interplay of these with ASX governance principles
- To apply the principles of Corporate Governance
- To consider the topics of corporate social responsibility and sustainability and to assess their relevance to, and impact on, the law and practice around officers' and directors' duties in Australia
- To consider whether the governance principles and approaches discussed are transportable to different regulatory regimes and cross culturally
- To understand board structure and process
- To consider issues relating to the board and executive teams as elite decision making groups
Leading in Transformational Times:
The principal objective of this component is to provide students with concepts and tools that help them understand and apply theories of leadership in transformation situations. As part of this process they will develop competencies in the analysis, planning and execution of leadership practice in transformational contexts. On completion of this component students will:
- Possess the necessary competencies to assess the nature of transformational change and its implications for organizations;
- Possess a body of knowledge related to the impact of top management on organisational transformation;
- Be able to analyse, plan and execute leadership practice in transformation
Seminar VII:
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: 31 January 2024
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
Code | Name | Teaching period | Credit Points |
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BUSA90508 | Executive Management 4 | December (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: 31 January 2024
Assessment
Description | Timing | Percentage |
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Mergers & Acquisitions: Syndicate Assignment
| Mid-way through the module | 20% |
Mergers & Acquisitions: Final examination (1500 words)
| At end of module | 80% |
Corporate Governance: Contribution to class learning (attendance at lectures, peer and instructor evaluation of contribution to class learning)
| Throughout the teaching period | 20% |
Corporate Governance: Post module individual assignment (2000 words)
| At end of module | 80% |
Leading in Transformational Times: Contribution to class learning (attendance at lectures, peer and instructor evaluation of contribution to class learning)
| Throughout the teaching period | 20% |
Leading in Transformational Times: Syndicate Assignment
| Mid-way through the module | 20% |
Leading in Transformational Times: Individual Assignment
| At end of module | 60% |
Seminar VII: Class Participation (attendance at lectures, peer and instructor evaluation of contribution to class learning) | Throughout the teaching period | 10% |
Seminar VII: Individual Assessment (Module Reflection & Application). 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.
| 2 weeks after the completion of the residential module | 90% |
Hurdle requirement: Students are required to pass the assessments to pass the subject | N/A |
Additional details
The components Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Governance and Leading in Transformational Times are equally weighted as 30% each. Seminar VII is weighted as 10%. In order to pass the subject, students are required to pass each component.
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Dates & times
- March
Mode of delivery Dual-Delivery (Parkville) Contact hours Total time commitment 280 hours Pre teaching start date 19 March 2022 Pre teaching requirements students are required to complete approximately 15 hours of readings to prepare for the subject during the pre-teaching period Teaching period 26 March 2022 to 3 April 2022 Last self-enrol date 21 March 2022 Census date 28 March 2022 Last date to withdraw without fail 29 March 2022 Assessment period ends 3 April 2022
Time commitment details
280 hours
Last updated: 31 January 2024
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 MC-BAEV program
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Type Name Course Master of Business Administration
Last updated: 31 January 2024