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explanations of their societal implications and and voluntary associations. It also focuses on companies:
consequences. It also explores how these issues are incorporation requirements, classification, corporate
addressed by business, government and organisation. governance, share capital and management issues.
Prerequisite(s): Postgraduate enrolment Credit points: Prerequisite(s): AYN410 Credit points: 12.000
12.000 Contact hours: 3 per week Campus: Gardens Contact hours: 3 per week Campus: Gardens Point
Point Teaching period: 2006 SEM-1 and 2006 SEM-2 Teaching period: 2006 SEM-1 and 2006 SEM-2
Incompatible with: CON412
AYN414 COST AND MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING
AMN423 STRATEGIES FOR CREATIVE ADVERTISING This unit introduces students to techniques that provide
This unit explores the substantive body of academic management at all levels with information for use in
research on creative advertising. It follows the creative inventory valuation, planning, controlling and decision-
process, beginning with the development of creative making. The unit's major focus is on product costing
strategy and concluding with campaign evaluation. Through systems for manufacturing firms.
cases and presentations, student examine how copywriters Prerequisite(s): AYN416 or equivalent Credit points:
think, the illumination of the 'big idea' and its execution 12.000 Contact hours: 3 per week Campus: Gardens
across the very diverse advertising media. Point Teaching period: 2006 SEM-1 and 2006 SEM-2
Prerequisite(s): p/g enrolment only Credit points:
12.000 Contact hours: 3 per week Campus: Gardens AYN417 FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING 2
Point Teaching period: 2006 SEM-2 Incompatible This unit covers the preparation of consolidated financial
with: CON419 statements; an overview of the statutory requirements that
dictate the format and content of published financial reports
AMN4 61 CORP ORATE M EDIA STRAT EGY A N D of companies; the requirements of the Corporations Act
T ACT ICS 2001 and the major disclosure orientated accounting
This unit examines theories underpinning mass media and standards; accounting for income tax; accounting for the
links these with the practice of public relations media tactics. acquisition of assets (including business entities);
Students analyse techniques and skills used in liaison with accounting for investments in associates; the termination of
electronic media, print media, trade media and news media. a company's life and the accounting procedures
Producing and evaluating communication materials such as necessitated by winding up/liquidation.
news releases, features and media kits forms an important Prerequisite(s): AYN416 Credit points: 12.000
part of this unit. Students develop strategic thinking through Contact hours: 3 per week Campus: Gardens Point
analysis of contemporary media case studies. Teaching period: 2006 SEM-1 and 2006 SEM-2
Prerequisite(s): p/g enrolment only Credit points:
12.000 Contact hours: 3 per week Campus: Gardens AYN418 FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING 3
Point Teaching period: 2006 SEM-1 and 2006 SEM-2 This unit introduces students to the nature and development
Incompatible with: CON424 of accounting theory and to the application of theory to
practice. The following topics are addressed: positive and
AMN465 PUBLIC RELATIONS MANAGEMENT normative theories of accounting; the external reporting
This unit provides learners with an overview of the theory framework including international harmonisation and the
and research that constitute the foundations of public conceptual framework; definition, recognition and
relation practice. The unit provides a detailed inspection of measurement of assets, liabilities, equity, revenues and
communication processes necessary for the management expenses; asset revaluations; intangibles; financial
of organisational relationships with publics. The unit focuses instruments; leases; and employee entitlements. Accounting
on such topics as issues management, organisational in specific industries such as general insurers, construction,
change, public opinion, and mass media effects in order to extractive industries and superannuation funds is also
explore the foundations of contemporary public relations examined. Contracting theory is used throughout to help
management. explain accounting policy choices.
Prerequisite(s): Postgraduate enrolment Credit points: Prerequisite(s): AYN417 Credit points: 12.000
12.000 Contact hours: 3 per week Campus: Gardens Contact hours: 3 per week Campus: Gardens Point
Point Teaching period: 2006 SEM-1 and 2006 SEM-2 Teaching period: 2006 SEM-1 and 2006 SEM-2
Incompatible with: CON415
AYN424 INTERNATIONAL ACCOUNTING
AYN412 COMPANY LAW This unit is designed to provide students with an insight into,
The unit introduces the law relating to the establishment, and an appreciation of, many of the accounting problems
operation and dissolution of business association; the forms and issues faced in an international business environment.
of business associations, partnerships, trusts, companies The unit examines issues including: accounting systems in
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the global environment; international patterns of accounting This unit covers a selection of major topics facing the
development including cultural influences on accounting; management of international financial institutions. The
comparative international accounting systems and theory and regulation of financial institution management
practices; the pressures for international accounting are placed in the context of major events in the international
harmonisation and disclosure; international disclosure financial markets. Case studies include the Asian financial
trends and financial analysis; global accounting issues into crisis, Japanese banking system 1990-2003, Enron, LDC
the twenty-first century. sovereign debt crisis, Savings & Loan crisis and the Basel
Prerequisite(s): Appropriate U/G degree in Accountancy, Capital Accord.
containing specific content. Please see School of Prerequisite(s): P/G enrolment with an U/G degree in
Accountancy for further advice. Credit points: 12.000 Economics or Finance Credit points: 12.000 Contact
Contact hours: 3 per week Campus: Gardens Point hours: 3 per week Campus: Gardens Point Teaching
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will better understand the principles of effective written and and developing the business model for a new enterprise.
spoken communication by exploring communication theory Credit points: 6.000 Contact hours: 3 per week
and undertaking several practical exercises and tasks. Campus: Gardens Point Teaching period: 2006 SEM-1,
Credit points: 6.000 Contact hours: 3 per week 2006 6TP2, 2006 6TP4 and 2006 6TP6 Incompatible
Campus: Gardens Point Teaching period: 2006 6TP2, with: GSN300
2006 6TP4, 2006 6TP5, 2006 6TP6 and 2006 SUMMER
Incompatible with: CON404 GSN412 BUSINESS LAW 1
This unit provides managers with an overview of basic legal
GSN408 FUNDAMENTALS OF MARKETING principles, which form the foundation of the laws of
MANAGEMENT commercial transactions from the perspective, and with
This unit provides students with the opportunity to critically particular relevance to, managers. Students will learn key
examine and evaluate the role of marketing and its elements of the rules governing business dealings by the
contribution to the strategic processes of the modern firm interaction of the laws of contract, agency and franchising,
operating in an increasingly competitive national and property law, securities and bailment, company law and
international environment. Key marketing decision areas are consumer law. The unit also introduces students to the
examined, including the marketing concept, the marketing Australian legal and statutory structure and provides an
mix, marketing information systems and marketing overview of the legal nature of business entities.
research, market segmentation, targeting and positioning, Prerequisite(s): GSN401 Corequisite(s): GSN401
and the process of marketing planning, implementation and Credit points: 6.000 Contact hours: 3 per week
control. Students have the opportunity to consider the Campus: Gardens Point Teaching period: 2006 6TP1,
evolution of marketing philosophy, determinants of 2006 6TP3, 2006 6TP5 and 2006 SUMMER
consumer and organisational behaviour and the influences Incompatible with: AYN410; EFN413
of environmental forces on marketing decision-making
within the firm. GSN413 FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT 1
Credit points: 6.000 Contact hours: 3 per week This unit introduces the student to the international financial
Campus: Gardens Point Teaching period: 2006 6TP1, environment in which business operates. The three major
2006 SEM-1, 2006 6TP3, 2006 6TP4 and 2006 6TP5 lessons in finance (time value, diversification and arbitrage)
Incompatible with: GSN206 are introduced. Topics include time value of money,
valuation, sources of funds, behaviour of firms and financial
GSN409 ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOUR 1 markets, introduction to investment evaluation,
Organisational Behaviour 1 is an introductory unit which diversification, risk and return, and cost of capital.
analyses human behaviour at work with a focus on issues of Prerequisite(s): GSN403 Credit points: 6.000
personality, motivation, group interaction, occupational Contact hours: 3 per week Campus: Gardens Point
stress, and health and organisational change. The unit Teaching period: 2006 6TP2, 2006 6TP4 and 2006 6TP6
examines issues related to aspects of the working Incompatible with: EFN406
environment and to the relationship between managerial
strategies, organisational structures and their effects on GSN415 UNDERSTANDING LEADERSHIP
performance, health and autonomy. Leadership is the process of persuasion or example by
Corequisite(s): GSN401 Credit points: 6.000 Contact which an individual influences others to pursue identified
hours: 3 per week Campus: Gardens Point Teaching goals. The skills of leadership can be identified and learned.
period: 2006 6TP2, 2006 6TP4, 2006 SEM-2, 2006 6TP5 This unit explores the attributes, roles and tasks of leaders
and 2006 6TP6 Incompatible with: MGN412 in contemporary business situations and the issues that
impact on leadership, such as leader-follower interaction,
GSN410 ENTREPRENEURSHIP ethics, leadership characteristics and leadership
This unit introduces the student to the field of development. This unit culminates in the development of
entrepreneurship and the management of innovation. leadership profiles of contemporary leaders with an
Entrepreneurial behaviour can take place within existing exploration of their characteristics and how their leadership
organisations (as intrapreneurship) or by starting a new roles are exercised.
business venture that is created to exploit a new technology Credit points: 6.000 Contact hours: 3 per week
or to introduce a new product, service, or business process. Campus: Gardens Point Teaching period: 2006 6TP1,
Topics include entrepreneurial attitudes, abilities and 2006 6TP3, 2006 SEM-2 and 2006 6TP5
behaviours and culture; opportunity recognition and the
development of new venture ideas; viability screening for GSN416 BUSINESS PLANS 1
initial and sustainable competitive advantage; risk This unit offers students the opportunity to write a formal
recognition and mitigation; intellectual property protection; business plan for a new business venture or offshoot of an
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Contact hours: 3 per week Campus: Gardens Point creative techniques; and group based problem solving.
Teaching period: 2006 6TP3 Candidates will apply specific techniques to case studies
during the semester. Video records of tutorials will be used
GSN452 INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RESOURCE to facilitate feedback for improved learning outcomes.
MANAGEMENT Credit points: 6.000 Contact hours: 3 per week
This unit provides students with an understanding of some Campus: Gardens Point Teaching period: 2006 SEM-1,
of the key factors affecting the management of human 2006 6TP2, 2006 6TP4 and 2006 6TP6
resources in an international environment. The integrating
theme to studying this area of HRM is the management of GSN461 MAKING CHANGE WORK
expatriate managers. The topic is considered from the This unit builds on the material covered in both GSN401
perspective of the international management generally, and GSN409 with the intention of making organisational
through the recruitment and selection of expatriates, their change work optimally for organisations and the people in
preparation, in-post support and eventual repatriation them. As such, it relies on a general knowledge of
Prerequisite(s): GSN406 Credit points: 6.000 management and its objectives and functions, as well as of
Contact hours: 3 per week Campus: Gardens Point individual and group behaviour.
Prerequisite(s): GSN401, GSN409 Credit points: 6.000
GSN456 PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT AND ETHICS FOR Contact hours: 3 per week Campus: Gardens Point
MANAGERS Teaching period: 2006 6TP4
This unit provides students with an opportunity to increase
their understanding of themselves and how their interactions GSN462 NEGOTIATION STRATEGIES
with others impact on their effectiveness as managers in a This unit explores the theory and practice of business
global environment. This unit also provides a framework of negotiation strategies. By focusing on distributive and
basic principles for ethical decision making. The roles of the integrative negotiation strategies and exploring business
individual and ethics in business decision making are negotiation practices in various contexts, the unit provides
explored through the use of international case studies. students with the opportunity to develop understanding and
Students get the opportunity to evaluate, critically, the role skills of negotiation in general and business negotiation
of individual behaviour and ethical decision making, from under selected contexts in particular.
not only a personal career perspective but as determinants Prerequisite(s): GSN407 Credit points: 6.000
of management and business effectiveness in an Contact hours: 3 per week Campus: Gardens Point
international context. Teaching period: 2006 6TP4 and 2006 SEM-2
Credit points: 6.000 Contact hours: 3 per week Incompatible with: IBN409
Campus: Gardens Point Teaching period: 2006 6TP2
and 2006 6TP5 Incompatible with: GSN208 GSN470 E-BUSINESS
This unit introduces concepts, theories and issues in the
GSN457 ORGANISATIONAL COMMUNICATION AND development of an e-business organisation based on, or
INFLUENCE depending strongly on information and communication
This unit focuses on how people relate with each other in technologies (ICTs). The unit examines the nature of e-
modern organisational settings, from small businesses to business, with particular emphasis on the variety of e-
multi-national organisations in the public and private sector. business strategies and explores how traditional
Drawing together theories of communication as they apply management practices face difficulties in an electronic
to workplace settings, the unit provides the opportunity to context.
analyse and reflect on the role of communication in Credit points: 6.000 Contact hours: 3 per week
constructing the conditions for achieving effective leadership Campus: Gardens Point
and participation in organisations.
Prerequisite(s): GSN407 Credit points: 6.000 GSN472 LEGAL PRINCIPLES OF CORPORATE
Contact hours: 3 per week Campus: Gardens Point GOVERNANCE
Teaching period: 2006 6TP4 Principles of Corporate Governance provides an
introduction to the increasingly important area of corporate
GSN460 CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING governance, as practiced by the Boards of Directors of
This unit introduces the student to the field of creative companies. This subject provides an overview of the main
thinking for new business initiatives in the global business concepts and history of corporate governance as a global
environment. The problem solving methods presented also trend, the core legal principles that underpin corporate
have application for 'intrapreneurs' in established firms. governance including: relationships between key
Topics include organisational issues for managing creativity; stakeholders; corporate governance in different contexts
methods of thinking; formal analysis approaches; individual including small proprietary companies and large listed and
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unlisted entities and current issues; and includes arguments This unit introduces the student to the field of sales
propounded for self regulation versus government management in the business environment whether local,
intervention. national or international. The unit provides the opportunity
Prerequisite(s): GSN412 Credit points: 6.000 for developing an understanding of sales processes and the
Contact hours: 3 per week Campus: Gardens Point associated management concepts and processes that
Teaching period: 2006 6TP1 and 2006 6TP5 support business strategic and operational outcomes, and
Incompatible with: GSN229, GSN481 the people involved in the selling. Students examine various
sales models and their applicability to different industries
GSN473 CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND and critique several commission, reward and recognition
ACCOUNTABILITY plans and their effectiveness.
Boards of directors and managers of organisations are now Prerequisite(s): GSN405, GSN406, GSN408 Credit
legally as well as morally accountable for policies, points: 6.000 Contact hours: 3 per week Campus:
processes, and outcomes to an increasingly vocal set of Gardens Point Teaching period: 2006 6TP3
stakeholders. Many of these accountabilities are not new,
although until recently they may have not been monitored GSN477 CONTRACT MANAGEMENT
rigorously or at all. Recent high-profile corporate collapses This unit provides managers with an understanding of some
and the widespread impact of the costs of these failures of the key factors involved in the management of contracts.
have resulted in greater regulation supplanting the former Competence in this area is increasingly important as greater
self-regulation practices. GSN473 examines the roles of the attention is paid to the negotiation and implementation of
board and management in implementing and monitoring a contracts, and as the trend to outsourcing various functions
sound corporate culture, proactively identifying and dealing to other organisations continues.
with risk, and safeguarding the company's assets and its Prerequisite(s): GSN405 Corequisite(s): GSN442
place in our society and economy. Credit points: 6.000 Contact hours: 3 per week
Prerequisite(s): 96cps including GSN404, GSN405, Campus: Gardens Point Teaching period: 2006 6TP6
GSN412 Credit points: 6.000 Contact hours: 3 per
week Campus: Gardens Point Teaching period: 2006 GSN479 SPREADSHEET MODELLING FOR MANAGERS
SEM-1, 2006 6TP1, 2006 6TP2, 2006 6TP4 and 2006 6TP6 This unit provides students with the analytical modelling
skills to enhance abilities in making business decisions
GSN474 STRATEGY PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT under uncertainty. Students are introduced to a range of
The understanding of strategic planning, development and techniques that involve structuring, analysing and solving
implementation and the implications for the modern managerial business decisions problems using Excel
organisation underpin this unit. Based on the case study spreadsheets and add-ins. Topics include optimisation
method of teaching, the unit discusses the strategy modelling, simulations models, decision analysis and
development process in the modern business context, and forecasting.
takes into account the various stakeholders and influences Prerequisite(s): GSN403, GSN413 Credit points: 6.000
that determine the eventual success or failure of strategy Contact hours: 3 hours per week Campus: Gardens
initiatives. Point Teaching period: 2006 6TP3
Prerequisite(s): GSN405 Credit points: 6.000
Contact hours: 3 per week Campus: Gardens Point GSN480 BUSINESS SUSTAINABILITY AND
Teaching period: 2006 6TP2 and 2006 6TP6 COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE
This unit develops the business case for sustainability.
GSN475 STRATEGIC ANALYSIS Students will develop an understanding of sustainable
Strategic analysis builds on the core understanding of the development and triple bottom line thinking and practice
principles and foundations of strategic management. The within business strategy. The course explores the
capacity to critically analyse, to formulate options, and to processes of sustainable value creation and organisational
recommend courses of action is an essential everyday tool change for business sustainability. Students will learn how
for the strategist. The ability to analyse and present a point to evaluate critically the likely competitive effects on an
of view is the focus of the unit and incorporates presentation organisation of a business model founded on sustainable
skills with strategic analysis. development and corporate sustainability strategy.
Prerequisite(s): GSN405, GSN474 Credit points: 6.000 Prerequisite(s): GSN411 or GSN414 or GSN491 Credit
Contact hours: 3 per week Campus: Gardens Point points: 6.000 Contact hours: 3 per week Campus:
Teaching period: 2006 6TP3 Gardens Point
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The unit explores contemporary understandings of The unit introduces students to critical issues of
philanthropic and nonprofit governance in the context of philanthropic and nonprofit law and taxation. The unit
social, economic and political systems. It locates these examines the regulatory, taxation and governance
understandings in various theoretical and descriptive framework of nonprofit organisations and philanthropic
frameworks providing students with both the knowledge and transactions in Australian Federal and State jurisdictions.
analytical skills that are necessary to reflect critically on Credit points: 6.000 Contact hours: 3 per week
philanthropy and nonprofit governance systems and their Campus: Gardens Point Teaching period: 2006 6TP4
environments. Incompatible with: GSN231
Credit points: 6.000 Contact hours: 3 per week
Campus: Gardens Point Teaching period: 2006 6TP2 GSN486 ACCOUNTING ISSUES FOR PHILANTHROPIC
Incompatible with: GSN472, GSN229 & NONPROFIT ORGANISATIONS
This unit introduces students to an overview of financial
GSN482 PHILANTHROPIC AND NONPROFIT reporting. The unit begins with an overview of the purpose
ECONOMICS of accounting and the types of financial statements that
The unit examines the role that economic theory can play in comprise a financial report. The unit also focuses on the
aiding decision-making in nonprofit organisations. It Australian financial reporting framework and whether an
introduces students to the principles of microeconomics and Australian accounting standard for nonprofit organisations is
explores their practical application to a range of decisions required. International comparisons are made.
that confront nonprofits. Production theory, cost theory, Credit points: 6.000 Contact hours: 3 per week
elasticity and market failure are some of the topics explored Campus: Gardens Point Teaching period: 2006 6TP5
in the nonprofit context. Incompatible with: GSN231
Credit points: 6.000 Contact hours: 3 per week
Campus: Gardens Point Teaching period: 2006 6TP3 GSN487 MARKETING FOR THE NONPROFIT SECTOR
Incompatible with: GSN229 The theory and application of strategic marketing in the
nonprofit sector is studied in this unit. The unit reviews key
GSN483 ETHICS FOR PHILANTHROPIC AND topics such as: competitive positioning; marketing mix
NONPROFIT ORGANISATIONS formulation; issues and characteristics that differentiate
This course introduces students to ethical theories and nonprofit marketing and allegiances to multiple markets.
constructs with a focus on producing effective personal and Within the not-for-profit marketing mix, topics examined by
professional resolutions to those ethical dilemmas students encompass the social cause as service/product,
specifically associated with Philanthropic and NonProfit service delivery options (offline and online) and integrated
(PANFP) organisations. The unit recognises the distinctive marketing communication including database marketing and
mission and character of PANFP organisations, while relationship management.
seeking to provide an understanding of integrity and Prerequisite(s): GSN408 Credit points: 6.000
response-ability. Contact hours: 3 per week Campus: Gardens Point
Credit points: 6.000 Contact hours: 3 per week Teaching period: 2006 6TP5 Incompatible with:
Campus: Gardens Point Teaching period: 2006 6TP3 AMN482
Incompatible with: CON427, AMN480, GSN230
GSN488 FUNDRAISING DEVELOPMENT PRINCIPLES
GSN484 MANAGEMENT FOR PHILANTHROPIC AND This unit considers the broad factors that influence
NONPROFIT ORGANISATIONS fundraising/development success. It applies theories of
In the context of managing for excellence with integrity, this marketing, public relations and management to fundraising
unit introduces students to the major management sub- and development and builds an understanding of the
disciplines of human resource management and industrial philanthropic environment. It re-examines the principles of
relations, governance, financial management, and fundraising/development, institutional readiness, case
marketing which may confront Philanthropic and Nonprofit statement preparation, leadership, constituencies and
(PANFP) organisations, their managers and governing research to build understanding of the context in which good
bodies. development practice occurs.
Credit points: 6.000 Contact hours: 3 per week Credit points: 6.000 Contact hours: 3 per week
Campus: Gardens Point Teaching period: 2006 6TP2 Campus: Gardens Point Teaching period: 2006 6TP4
Incompatible with: CON427, AMN480, GSN230 Incompatible with: GSN232, MIN409, AMN481
GSN485 LEGAL ISSUES FOR PHILANTHROPIC AND GSN489 FUNDRAISING DEVELOPMENT TECHNIQUES
NONPROFIT ORGANISATIONS This unit builds on GSN488 to delve into particular
techniques of resource mobilisation in nonprofit
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organisations. It considers a range of income generation policy influence the business environment and how
vehicles and techniques including capital and major gifts, exchange rates are determined.
special events, bequests, direct mail, telemarketing, e- Prerequisite(s): GSN491 Credit points: 6.000
fundraising, gift clubs and the art of building donor Contact hours: 3 per week Campus: Gardens Point
relationships. It also examines professional evaluation of Teaching period: 2006 6TP1 Incompatible with:
fundraising programs. EFN405, GSN411, GSN414
Prerequisite(s): GSN488 Credit points: 6.000
Contact hours: 3 per week Campus: Gardens Point GSN493 CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT
Teaching period: 2006 6TP5 Incompatible with: This unit introduces the student to the field of customer
GSN232, MIN409, AMN481 relationship management in the business environment
whether local, national or international. The unit provides
GSN490 MANAGING TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION the opportunity for developing an understanding of customer
The role of technological innovation is crucial for the relationship management (CRM) as a core business
effective performance of modern enterprises. This unit strategy with the associated technology dependencies and
explores the concepts of innovation and provides a customer marketing concepts. Students will examine
managerial understanding of the major types of various business components of CRM, the CRM value chain
contemporary information technologies. These are used to technology tools, implementation processes and from case
explore the way technological innovation integrates and studies understand their applicability to different businesses
supports a broad range of business functions and and industries.
processes and can be used strategically to provide Prerequisite(s): GSN405, GSN408 Corequisite(s):
advantage to an enterprise. GSN415 Credit points: 6.000 Contact hours: 3 per
Prerequisite(s): completion of 48cps including GSN405 week Campus: Gardens Point Teaching period: 2006
Credit points: 6.000 Contact hours: 3 per week 6TP1 and 2006 6TP5
Campus: Gardens Point Teaching period: 2006 6TP1,
2006 6TP3, 2006 6TP5 and 2006 SUMMER GSN494 INNOVATING FOR BUSINESS
Incompatible with: GSN402 COMPETITIVENESS
Innovation is increasingly being recognised as a key driver
GSN491 ECONOMICS IN BUSINESS 1 of business competitiveness. Fundamentally there are two
This unit is designed to show how economics provides a types of innovation - product or process. Product innovation
framework of analysis, and a powerful set of tools that can is concerned with developing new products or services to
be used by managers to understand the market conditions meet market needs. Process innovation is focussed on
affecting business performance. It examines the forces that developing better or cheaper ways of delivering product and
influence production and pricing decisions in individual services. This course is concerned with the link between
markets and how market forces interact to determine the innovation and the achievement of organisational goals. As
level of macroeconomic activity. The course provides a self- such, it could alternatively be titled Strategic Management of
contained treatment of the major themes in micro and Innovation. In fact, the unit adopts the familiar analysis,
macro economics. It also provides a solid foundation for formulation, implementation notions of strategy, but focuses
further study of the subject. on the strategic role of innovation.
Credit points: 6.000 Contact hours: 3 per week Prerequisite(s): GSN405, GSN410 Credit points: 6.000
Campus: Gardens Point Teaching period: 2006 6TP2, Contact hours: 3 per week Campus: Gardens Point
2006 6TP4, 2006 6TP6 and 2006 SUM-1 Incompatible Teaching period: 2006 6TP5
with: EFN405, GSN411, GSN414
GSN496 PUBLIC RELATIONS AND CRISIS
GSN492 ECONOMICS IN BUSINESS 2 MANAGEMENT
This unit builds on the analysis developed in GSN491. It This unit has been designed to introduce managers to the
provides a basic understanding of some of the key micro role of public relations in managing stakeholder
and macroeconomic factors that influence business relationships and to specifically address this role during
performance. On the micro side, the unit examines the times of crisis. Crisis management is growing in importance
nature of the firm as an organisation, business objectives as organisations face increased scrutiny at a local and
and constraints, strategic pricing decisions, the influence of global level. The ability to identify issues, negotiate with
market structure on pricing, and the rationale for stakeholders where possible and handle effectively,
government policy intervention in markets. The macro communication during times of crisis is critical to the
analysis examines the forces that determine output growth ongoing success of organisations. Managers require an
and the relationship between growth, inflation and understanding of the types of issues and crises that can
unemployment. It also examines how monetary and fiscal occur and various action strategies to address the particular
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methodologies and tools; the ARIS approach; purposes of introduce you to 'best practice' in policy design,
business process modelling. (3) Process-based Enterprise implementation, and evaluation as they relate to demands
Systems Management: enterprise systems selection; both within organisational and these broader social
enterprise systems implementation; enterprise systems contexts.
benefit realisation. (4) Case studies in process engineering. Prerequisite(s): To have completed units in programming,
Prerequisite(s): ITN228 Contact hours: 3 per week rational database theory and systems analysis and design
Campus: Gardens Point techniques Credit points: 12.000 Contact hours: 3 per
week Campus: Gardens Point Incompatible with:
ITN255 KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT ITB330
This unit seeks initially to convince you of the strategic
importance of managing knowledge well in today's LWS006 HEALTH, ETHICS AND THE LAW
environment of predominantly service based industry. We The legal issues associated with the matter of public health
seek to develop a preliminary understanding of knowledge and an appreciation of the legal and ethical implications of
dynamics within organisations, how one can analyse the work done by health care professionals in this area.
knowledge intensive activities and what steps can be taken Topics include: introduction to the Australian legal system;
to use knowledge more effectively to create a competitive tort law and its impact on the public health system;
advantage. We examine practical knowledge management workplace health and safety legislation; medical records and
issues such as transfer of best practice and knowledge confidentiality; criminal law and the health care profession;
strategies of large IS firms. We also examine the knowledge transplantation of organs and tissues; complaints against
management strategies and approaches employed by large hospitals and health care professionals.
IS consulting firms and draw on QUT research into software Contact hours: 3 per week Campus: Kelvin Grove
and hardware support organisations. You will gain important
strategic management skills and perspe MGN404 MANAGING AND ORGANISING GLOBAL
Prerequisite(s): ITN241 or ITN266 Credit points: 12.000 FIRMS
Contact hours: 3 per week Campus: Gardens Point This unit aims to provide a detailed examination of the
Teaching period: 2006 SEM-1 typical impacts of the international environment upon the
organisation, its management, structure, operations and
ITN266 INFORMATION MANAGEMENT human resource capacities. In addition, the unit discusses
The aim of this unit is to provide you with an awareness of management issues to be faced by organisations entering
the activities in which IM professionals are engaged within into export markets.
various organisational contexts. Through the use of case Prerequisite(s): postgraduate enrolment only Credit
studies, this unit will introduce the strategic and analytic points: 12.000 Contact hours: 3 per week Campus:
elements that comprise information management activities Gardens Point Incompatible with: BSN401
such as the alignment of enterprise information and
business planning, enterprise information policy, evaluation MGN421 STRATEGIC HRM
of information resources & systems and applications of the HRM is concerned with the relationship between people
information inventory. management strategies and organisational goals and
Prerequisite(s): IT45, IT38: ITN201 Credit points: objectives. This capstone unit provides HRM students with
12.000 Contact hours: 3 per week Campus: Gardens the opportunity to apply their learning to this relationship in a
Point Teaching period: 2006 SEM-2 Incompatible systematic way. It requires them to produce high quality
with: ITB266 HRM advice that provides direction for practicing line
managers consistent with organisational goals and
ITN272 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY PROJECT objectives. The learning strategies in the unit challenge
MANAGEMENT students to identify contemporary issues of organisation and
The aim of this unit is to provide experience in IT project management and to interpret these using the paradigms of
management issues. It prepares you for the management of HRM.
IT projects. Prerequisite(s): Postgraduate enrolment only; MGN427 or
Prerequisite(s): ITN241 Credit points: 12.000 u/g specialisation in HRM advisable Credit points:
Contact hours: 3 per week Campus: Gardens Point 12.000 Contact hours: Flexible Mode Campus:
Teaching period: 2006 SEM-2 Gardens Point Teaching period: 2006 SEM-2
ITN330 INFORMATION ISSUES AND VALUES MGN422 CONTEMPORARY ISSUES AND PRACTICES IN
The overall aim is to introduce you to the importance of EMPLOYEE RELATIONS
effective information policies within both organisations and This unit provides human resource practitioners with the
broader societal contexts. Accordingly, the subject will skills and knowledge to cope with changing employee
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relations conditions and work practices in Australia. The previous economics background to some microeconomic
focus of the unit is on issues relating to changes in industrial theory and its application to economic issues in the health
relations and how these impact on HR practice. The sector. The unit starts with more theoretical topics such as
pressures to move to an EB system, negotiation of EB demand and supply analysis, the production of health and
agreements and related work practice issues such as the market structures, and then moves onto more applied topics
impact of these changes on health and safety, work and such as health insurance and economic evaluations. The
family responsibilities, workforce diversity and the aim of the unit is to encourage students to understand
increasing use of technology are addressed. variables that influence resource allocation within the health
Prerequisite(s): postgraduate enrolment only Credit sector and to consider subsequent implications.
points: 12.000 Contact hours: Flexible Mode Prerequisite(s): PU85, PU60: PUN692; HL38, HL68, HL88,
Campus: Gardens Point Teaching period: 2006 SEM-2 HL90: Nil; PU38: PUN610 Credit points: 12.000
Contact hours: 3 per week Campus: Kelvin Grove and
MGN427 HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT External Teaching period: 2006 SEM-2 Incompatible
This unit is designed to introduce students to the importance with: PUB433
of human resource management for the effectiveness of
organisations operating in complex and/or global PUN615 ADVANCED HEALTH SERVICE MANAGEMENT
environments and the quality of work life. The subject (Not offered in 2006)
examines human resource management from multiple The aim of the unit is to assist students to consolidate prior
consistency, functional and strategic perspectives. It utilises learning through the development and application of a
an open systems model to introduce some of the key framework for business planning, particularly related to the
processes of personnel management, which are treated at a introduction of new practices in health care, consolidated by
theoretical and skill level. The subject fosters knowledge, the use of researching, writing and presentation skills. This
analytical and operational competencies. unit is designed to assist health service managers to
Prerequisite(s): postgraduate enrolment only Credit understand their roles in leading the organisation, and to
points: 12.000 Contact hours: 3 per week Campus: develop their skills in strategic and tactical management.
Gardens Point Teaching period: 2006 SEM-1 and 2006 Prerequisite(s): PUN610 Campus: External
SEM-2
PUN617 ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH MANAGEMENT
MGN505 CONSULTING AND CHANGE MANAGEMENT This unit aims to integrate the aspects of environmental
This unit considers the origins, nature and effect of social health theory and practice covered in other units within the
change on individuals, organisations and communities. environmental health graduate program by focusing on
Theories and models of change are used to explore planned current management and policy issues, strategies, tools and
and unplanned changes currently occurring, particularly as approaches. Topics covered include the following:
these relate to possible futures. Emphasis is on the environmental health policy development; environmental
strategies and skills required to initiate and participate in health management in local government; environmental
effective change management. health management in state government; new technologies;
Prerequisite(s): postgraduate enrolment only Credit GIS; electronic toolbox; management tools; economic
points: 12.000 Contact hours: Flexible Mode evaluation; environmental health indicators; emergency
Campus: Gardens Point Teaching period: 2006 SEM-1 management; indigenous environmental health policy;
dangerous goods management; project management; and
PUN601 CONTEMPORARY HEALTH POLICIES environmental health practice issues.
Health systems and their structure and functioning are Credit points: 12.000 Campus: Kelvin Grove
outcomes of health policy. Well informed and developed Teaching period: 2006 SEM-2
policy makes an important contribution to the health of the
community. This unit critically evaluates the policy making PUN632 HEALTH SERVICES MANAGEMENT,
process in health in Australia and globally. Topics include LEADERSHIP AND CHANGE
policy development, policy analysis and evaluation, the In this unit students develop and apply a researched,
political and other influences on policy, health policy at the conceptual framework to understand management,
national and international level and the role of consumers. leadership and change issues, particularly related to health
Contact hours: 6.5 x 2 days Campus: Kelvin Grove and care, consolidated using researching, logical argument,
External analysis and writing skills. The unit draws on contemporary
research and practice
PUN608 HEALTH ECONOMICS Credit points: 12.000 Teaching period: 2007 SEM-2
(Not offered 2006)
This unit is designed to introduce students with little or no
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PUN640 HEALTH CARE DELIVERY AND REFORM are also extended to enable efficient essay writing and the
This unit introduces conceptual frameworks fundamental to refinement of exam techniques. Language and structure
the orgainisation of health systems with particular emphasis appropriate to commercial, technical and academic
on Australian and international health systems. Issues communication are developed in support of business
covered include the operation, funding and evaluation of subjects. Communication for Business 2 language learning
health systems, health reform and the drivers for change. tasks are parallel with content material from these units.
Credit points: 12.000 Teaching period: 2007 SEM-1 Prerequisite(s): QCD110 or IELTS 6.5 or approved
equivalent Credit points: 12.000 Contact hours: 4 per
PUN649 HEALTH CARE FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT week Campus: Kelvin Grove Teaching period: 2006
This unit provides students with analytic skills and an 13TP1, 2006 13TP2, 2006 SEM-2 and 2006 13TP3
understanding of a range of financial management decision-
making principles and processes applicable to health
management roles. Topics covered include the finnancial
structure of the Australian health care system, the context in
which it operates and incentives and disincentives for
efficiencies and effectiveness.
Credit points: 12.000 Teaching period: 2007 SEM-1