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The Bachelor of International Business is designed to produce graduates who want to pursue a career in international business management. All students develop a broad business knowledge in accounting, finance, marketing, management business statistics, and commercial law. Within the major, students undertake specialised studies in international business learning to navigate its environment, operational side, and policy and technical aspects. Specialised courses also include managing across cultures, corporate responsibility for global business, and marketing to the world. Additionally, students develop analytical and decision-making skills needed for professional roles. Alongside the professional knowledge and skills, students have the opportunity to enhance their critical thinking, communication skills, and reflective practice. Graduates will be career-ready for the business world of today and have the interpersonal skills to adapt to the demands of a future economy.

Develop your international awareness of business across key areas including management, marketing, and accounting. By adding cultural awareness to your business skill set, you’ll develop leadership and decision-making skills to work across continents.

Bachelor of International Business

Managing Organisations and People

This course is designed to explore contemporary social and ethical challenges facing global corporations in our increasingly globalised and inter-connected world. Through analysis of recent developments in Corporate Social Responsibility, triple-bottom-line accounting, and sustainability requirements, students will examine issues such as ethics and leadership, the shareholder-stakeholder debate, corruption, the changing trade environment as well as how modern corporations are dealing with the challenges of poverty, climate change, and dangerous conflict situations. The aim is to increase students&#39; ability to apply critical analysis and ethical principles to practical problems that they will face in the workplace and to engage with and influence ongoing debates on the future role of global corporations in contributing to a more prosperous and sustainable global environment.

Corporate Responsibility for Global Business

Assessing the viability of your ideas in a systematic manner is an integral requirement for any career path, not only if you want to embark on an entrepreneurial career. Evidence suggests that your time at University is one of the best times to gain this experience. The eChallenge is a course designed to offer you a chance to perceive ideas from the perspective of pain experienced by or gain obtained by customers, develop innovative solutions using creative strategies, test ideas by interacting with customers, mentors, and industry practitioners, and finally pitch ideas to a panel of investors from industry. Building your network during industry interactions is an added benefit. Added to this, the course offers a range of cash and in-kind prizes, with winners announced at a black-tie awards dinner for all participants with industry veterans and investors. The course is the first step into entrepreneurship for many who have gone on to great entrepreneurial endeavors, as well as an enriching personal learning experience for all.

eChallenge

This course adopts a system thinking perspective to explore the challenges and opportunities of managing in complex organisational and social environments. Building on skills and knowledge gained throughout the program, the course provides a framework in which to explore the essential `messiness? of living systems and the complexity and unpredictability of outcomes. Assessment will focus on the use of environmental and organisational information to diagnose problems, to propose alternative solutions, and then consider possible outcomes to complex business problems.

Systems Thinking for a Complex World

This course explores approaches to managing conflict and change in the workplace. Students will reflect upon and develop their own conflict management skills, and practice analysing the conflict management and negotiation skills of others. The course will consider theory and research as well as practical management tools and techniques for dealing with conflict and change. Students will apply these skills and techniques to case studies and real-world scenarios, in order to critically assess successful change proposals and change implementation practices. This course explores approaches to managing conflict and change in the workplace. Students will reflect upon and develop their own conflict management skills, and practice analysing the conflict management and negotiation skills of others. The course will consider theory and research as well as practical management tools and techniques for dealing with conflict and change. Students will apply these skills and techniques to case studies and real-world scenarios, in order to critically assess successful change proposals and change implementation practices.

Managing Conflict and Change

This course focuses on the analysis and synthesis underpinning sound strategic management. Strategic management is concerned with the long-term direction, scope, and performance of an organization. Whether the overall strategy of an organization emerges from the interplay of functional departments or is a grand plan devised by one group, its success is contingent on the fit that is made between the organization and the relevant environmental dynamics. The actions of the organization are simultaneously a result of these dynamics and a cause of them. Hence a continuous, accurate analysis and synthesis of environmental and organizational interactions is a critical component of a successful strategy.

Strategic Management

The objective of this course is to provide students with a basic understanding of the fundamental principles and practices of International Management. The course focuses on the foundations of international management, the role of culture, cross-cultural communication and negotiations, MNC strategies and structures, and international human resource management. There will be a focus on appropriate theory and the course will aim to provide opportunities for the practical implementation of the main concepts covered.

Managing Across Cultures

This course introduces students to the roles and functions of managers. The content includes an introduction to organisations and the need for and nature of management. It examines the evolution of management theory, organisational environments, and corporate social responsibility and ethics. The course also includes a detailed investigation of the four functions of management: planning and decision making, organising, leading and motivating, and controlling.

Explore management theory to understand why organisations need managers and how you can become a good one. Learn to think like a manager. Make confident and ethical decisions in the best interest of the business, its staff, and the broader community.

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