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Entrepreneur Within (MGMT90229)

Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5On Campus (Parkville)

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The purpose of this subject is to help students develop the personal insights, ethical decision-making skills, and problem-solving methods that will be critical to being a successful entrepreneur. The subject will look at four interrelated cognitive and emotional domains. First, self-understanding, which will address where being an entrepreneur fits into the student’s life and career, what strengths they bring, what the particular challenges will be for them, and how to set up and use opportunities for reflective learning. Second, self-management skills, which will focus on those which are especially important for entrepreneurs, including the resilience skills to handle pressure and failure, time and priority management skills, and the skills to manage success, including thinking critically and creatively. Third, ethical decision making, which will explore a person’s values, different methods of making ethical decisions, the identification and management of cognitive biases, and the application of ethical decision-making skills to the type of concrete dilemmas faced by entrepreneurs. 

Intended learning outcomes

On successful completion of this subject, students should be able to:



  • Describe the development of personal skills and values;
  • Evaluate ethical issues in starting and growing an enterprise, understand the frameworks for ethical decision making and demonstrate an awareness of how cognitive bias and other aspects of cognition can distort good decision making;
  • Demonstrate the ability to manage self and the ability to handle themselves under pressure;
  • Demonstrate the ability to think critically and creatively to solve entrepreneurial problems and face entrepreneurial dilemmas.

Generic skills

High level of development:

  • Develop problem-solving skills through in-class exercises
  • Develop creative ways of solving unfamiliar problems, through in-class seminar exercises
  • Learn to adopt new ideas from participation in class

 

Moderate level of development:

  • Think critically, and organise knowledge, from consideration of the lecture material
  • Plan effective work schedules, to meet the regular deadlines for submission of assessable work
  • Present an argument, by reflecting on those presented in the lecture series.

Last updated: 8 November 2024