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The world is evolving, with a clear shift away from outdated business practices. Our Bachelor of Business is an alternative to more traditional business degrees, combining new skills, new values and new opportunities relevant for the new economy. It&#39;s a whole new way of thinking for a whole new generation of business professionals.The modern business practices of adaptivity, creativity, diversity and sustainable business are ingrained in this degree, so that you graduate with the skills needed for the rewarding career opportunities that the new economy brings.This degree offers you a choice of 6 majors and the opportunity to complete elective subjects.<ul><li>Human Resource Management</li><li>Management</li><li>Marketing</li><li>Innovation and Entrepreneurship</li><li>Sport Management</li><li>Logistics and Supply Chain Management</li></ul>This degree includes subjects from Griffith University and other universities through OUA.

Learn how organisations work and visualise where you fit in. Get familiar with financial documents, risk, and business comms. This business course gives you a 360-degree view of business strategy. Specialisations include marketing and management. 

Bachelor of Business

Learn the skills necessary to enact a new kind of safety leadership that puts a focus on the practical expertise needed to get the job done. This graduate certificate will help you advance from the simple, linear cause-effect thinking that has typically characterised safety work in Australia and help you to challenge pre-occupations with process and compliance. You will learn about resilience, complexity science and holism and be taken on an exciting journey into a new era of safety.You will study a range of theories that focus on why accidents happen and how they can be prevented, including normal accidents theory, human reliability theory, as well as structural and interpretational perspectives to risk and safety. With this knowledge, you will be capable of critiquing safety practices and comparing and contrasting the strengths and weaknesses of accident models, ensuring your analysis and critical thinking can help improve safety systems in your own workplace.By looking beyond the narrow understandings of safety that still exist at many organisations and institutions, you will understand how to address safety using safety management systems and the processes and procedures that have proven roles in achieving high safety standards. Importantly, you&#39;ll view people as a solution to safety issues, not the problem, putting empathy at the centre of your plans to create a safe workplace.

Launch or advance your safety career with this postgraduate OHS qualification. Broaden your understanding of safety beyond the norm and make workplaces safer. Explore current theory, learn from experienced academics, and make industry connections.

Graduate Certificate in Safety Leadership

This qualification will help you drive change in water management by helping you to gain the leadership skills required to exert effective influence.You&#39;ll construct an individual leadership development plan and be coached through the elements of that plan to effectively develop your ability to drive challenging change projects in water management.The degree is tailored to the water sector and is based on research into effective leadership development in the water sector, meaning you&#39;ll directly develop relevant leadership skills for your work as a water professional.

Get ready to make sustainable changes to water management strategies and practices. You’ll cover the critical skills leaders need in today’s complex regulatory and business environments. Work on a real water leadership project. Build industry connections.

Graduate Certificate in Water Leadership

The Graduate Certificate in Leadership and Management is designed to suit the professional development needs of middle level managers in industry and government, enhancing existing practice and preparing for more senior leadership roles.Developed and taught by industry professionals in active leadership roles, this degree is focused on practical organisational challenges. You&#39;ll learn about contemporary management and leadership practice and apply this knowledge to current scenarios from your workplace.You&#39;ll develop an understanding of the different types and purposes of teams, and learn how to boost team performance through effective leadership. You&#39;ll hone your creative thinking skills and be equipped to convert great ideas into reality through collaboration and positive risk-taking. As a graduate, you&#39;ll have the skills and knowledge to translate vision and strategy into action and effectively manage transformation in your organisation.

Learn about contemporary leadership and management from active industry professionals. Navigate complex business environments with confidence. Harness the power of teams. Boost your career or continue your leadership journey with MBA eligibility.

Graduate Certificate in Leadership and Management

This program provides the necessary breadth and depth of public management skills to advance your career both within the public sector and in the increasingly important area of the private-public sector interface.Experts from across the Griffith Business School teach into the program, drawing on a wide-range of discipline knowledge applied to both business and government contexts. The teaching team consists of academics with experience working in a variety of governmental roles and those at the cutting edge of public sector research and analysis.A public administration qualification is globally recognised and this program is designed to fit around your busy professional and personal schedules.This program includes a dissertation option. The dissertation can provide a pathway to a higher degree by research for candidates with the qualifying <abbr title="Grade Point Average">GPA</abbr>.

Advance your career in the public sector. Fit study in around your existing personal and professional schedule. Understand the importance of the private and public sector interface. Apply your knowledge across business and government contexts.

Master of Public Administration

The Management of Business Processes

Leading and Managing Organisations

Business Decision-Making

Creating Ethical and Sustainable Business

Management Communication

Business Communication

Managing Strategic Change

Building the New Venture

The aim of the course is to explain the way people behave and make decisions in a business environment and the role that information has in the context of decision-making. It will also tackle some of the critical questions around the use of information for business decision making: how to assess the validity/reliability and relevance of the information we receive, how to use it effectively, how to simplify information, make it relevant, and present it to different audiences.

The subject serves as an introductory platform to business processes. It offers both conceptual and practical guidance for achieving competitive advantage by managing business processes. The Management of Business processes involves the deliberate and collaborative design, management and goal definition of end-to-end sets of activities that create value for customers.Key aspects of business processes at the management, operational and support level are investigated and supporting theories explored looking at the work of Taylor, Harmon, Davenport, Hammer and Porter to name some. By taking a holistic view of the organisation, that transcends vertical, horizontal, external and geographical boundaries, this unit provides a road map for guiding organisations to analyse, re-design and improve business processes. Finally, the effects of the application of Information Systems on business processes are investigated in terms of how the processes themselves are captured and become an integral part of the technology.

Get a snapshot of the business processes companies use to deliver products and services to consumers. Break down the production and marketing stages. Identify the role management plays. See how technology is improving production and service systems.

Whether you work as an administrative assistant, a communication officer, a low-level manager or as the Chief Executive Officer, to operate efficiently you need well developed communication skills. This subject investigates the connections between clear communication and effective leadership and management.You will explore the theoretical models that underpin contemporary communication processes and the different communication structures and styles that exist in modern business organisations. By interrogating concepts such as interpersonal communication, emotional intelligence, diversity and team dynamics you develop a clearer awareness of your own communication strengths and weaknesses and an understanding of how those around you communicate. Through practical exercises and assessment you will learn how to identify and map the communication structure and networks that exist in workplaces and how to improve your own written and oral communication skills.

This course requires writing and presenting a formal business plan for a new product or service, and develops the marketing-, operations-, human resource-, risk- and financial-management knowledge and skills required to start and operate a new business or social venture.

Do you have a business idea? Here’s your chance to put it to the test. In this subject you’ll examine new business ventures. You’ll consider its commercial viability, legality, ethicality and its contribution to your personal and social objectives.

In this course, students will be guided through the functions of management to explore the foundations of management. After exploring areas of planning, leading, organising and controlling and the underpinning management principles, the concepts will be contextualised in foundational and contemporary aspects of business including leadership, sustainability, and globalisation using topical modes of delivery and content. This course is recommended for all management students in the early stages of their studies as a platform to develop broader management skills.

If businesses are to survive in an increasingly competitive and information-oriented environment they will need trained managers who can speak, write and interact with others efficiently, effectively and professionally.This subject will define the importance and role of effective communication in a manager&#39;s position and their role in a &#39;learning&#39; organisation. While taking COM211 you will begin to evaluate the structure of an organisation, the role of communication networks and the value and use of communities of practice. You will discuss how to communicate effectively in an increasingly diverse business landscape, evaluate change management strategies, practise communicating and managing change, and managing conflict in the business environment.

Business plans and strategies can be formulated and put into play however the dynamic environment of business can change quickly e.g. COVID19. In this course various models and concepts will be examined with the aim of managing strategic change through nimble and agile approaches for organisations and projects e.g. systems thinking approaches where flexible and holistic views are incorporated. Students will examine, critically analyse and evaluate different approaches that may challenge assumptions and implications for creative management practices.

This subject enhances awareness of ethical issues connected with international corporate decision-making and provides students with business strategies and frameworks that assist in the analysis and resolution of ethical problems. An analytic section introduces concepts including corporate social responsibility (CSR) and moral decision making processes. A thematic section then covers ethical issues related to the global business system, international management strategies, technology, external and internal stakeholders and corporate governance.

Ask questions about the ethical issues surrounding international corporate decision-making. Unpack management strategies and global business systems. List the various stakeholders in this conversation. Contrast personal and organisational ethics.

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