Executive Management 4 (BUSA90508)

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.