Undergraduate | GRF-IBA346 | 2024
Family Business Management
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- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- No ATAR needed,
- No prior study
- Duration
- 13 weeks
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Family Business Management
About this subject
At the completion of this subject students will be able to:
- Explain the importance of family businesses to world-wide economies with a particular focus on the Australasian economy.
- Evaluate the stages of evolution of a family business, the role entrepreneurship plays, and the players involved
- Analyse the operations and management system of a family business and apply the principles of a good governance system
- Evaluate the various options available when planning for succession and/or exit of the family from the business
ASSURANCE OF LEARNING
This course evaluates student performance for Assurance of Learning purposes for the Program Learning Objectives (PLO): Critically analyse local and global business issues to apply inclusive, socially responsible and sustainable practices.
- Pathways to getting started
- Family and non-family businesses compared
- Conflict management and resolution
- Family business structure and systems
- Stages of evolution and family involvement
- Governance issues for family businesses
- Transition Management (Part 1)
- Transition Management (Part 2)
- Strategic planning for the family business
- Nepotism & being a non-family employee
- Professionalising the family business
- Selling the family business
The aim of this course is to understand the complex workings of businesses that are family-owned and run. The course explores the unique personal and interpersonal issues, as well as the business issues associated with the family-owned and managed firm.
Students should not enrol in the subject if they have completed: 2029IBA Family Business in Asia or 3046IBA Family Business Management.
- Essay on ‘To be or not to be a family business’ (20%)
- Observations from speakers and a case study (40%)
- Report - Family Business Analysis (40%)
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Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following degrees
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