Business Decision-Making
UndergraduateGRF-GBS1082025
Find and use information to make confident business decisions. First you’ll explore the psychology and processes behind decision making. Then you’ll cover data—how to find it, validate it, and use it during planning, positioning, and decisions.
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- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Enrol by
- 26 Oct 2025
- Entry requirements
- No ATAR needed, No prior study
- Duration
- 13 weeks
- Start dates
- 3 Mar 2025,
- 3 Nov 2025
- Price from
- $2,124
- Upfront cost
- $0
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Business Decision-Making
About this subject
After successfully completing this subject you should be able to:
- Explain the psychological, cognitive, emotional, cultural, and social factors that affects decisions made by individuals and organisations
- Identify and source the most appropriate information required for effective decision making
- Develop relevant solutions for complex business issues
Assurance of Learning:
This course evaluates student performance for Assurance of Learning purposes for the program learning objective (PLO): Identify and critically analyse sources of data applying interdisciplinary perspectives to inform evidenced based decision making in contemporary business practices.
This course evaluates student performance for Assurance of Learning purposes for the program learning objective (PLO): Identify and critically analyse sources of data to inform evidenced-based decisions.
- Why & What of Business Decision-Making
- When and Who of Business Decision-Making
- Approaches to Decision-Making
- Data and Decision-Making
- Data Visualisation for Decision-Making
- Data Inference for Decision Making (#1)
- Data Inference for Decision Making (#2)
- Data Inference for Decision Making (#3)
- Communicating Decisions
- Planning and Decision Making
- Managing Business Decisions
- Using Data for Future Positioning
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.
Students should not enrol in this subject if they have completed 1008GBS Business Decision-Making at Griffith University.
- Quizzes (4) (10%)
- Dataset analysis (50%)
- Infographic (40%)
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Entry requirements
No entry requirements
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
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8 student respondents between 1 Feb - 8 June 2025.
100%of students felt the study load was manageable
100%of students felt this subject helped them gain relevant skills
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