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Course name

Credits

Course description

COMPULSORY - Capabilities for Managers

15

Gain a critical awareness of the skills needed to manage complex organisations.

COMPULSORY - Research and Enquiry

15

Achieve the skills you need to undertake small-scale professional projects within organisations.

COMPULSORY - Financial Decision Making

15

Learn how to apply the concepts, theory and analytical techniques of finance to investment, financing and dividend decisions of a firm.

COMPULSORY - Project Management

15

Learn how to develop critical analysis and application skills in project management.

Business Management major - electives totalling 60 credits at Level 8 or 9

Level

Developing Effective Organisations

8

15

Gain a critical understanding of organisational development theory and practice in organisational contexts including Iwi/Maori organisations.

Entrepreneurship and Innovation

8

15

Learn how to analyse the processes associated with managing entrepreneurship and innovation within both new ventures and existing firms and to assess the significant issues associated with utilising these managerial concepts to optimise organisational performance.

Managing for Sustainability

8

15

Develop your sustainable practice capabilities and apply these capabilities to a variety of applied settings as a sustainable practice manager.

Marketing in a Digital Age

8

15

Gain the marketing management capabilities necessary to organise and manage for growth and profitability in a digital age.

Management of Information Systems

9

15

To enable students to understand how information systems should be managed in order to assist in the achievement of the strategic goals of organisations.

Professional Project

9

45

Apply the skills and knowledge you have gained during the programme to complete an applied professional project that contributes to professional practice in management within your chosen major.

Cross-cultural Management

9

15

Develop capabilities to evaluate the issues that arise in the leadership of organisations when managers address culturally determined differences in employee values, attitudes and behaviours.

Corporate Governance and Leadership

9

15

Evaluate complex corporate governance and leadership challenges in the context of different ownership structures. This will include governance and leadership models in the context of indigenous organisations and the importance of the Treaty of Waitangi.

Managing Growth, Change and Adversity

9

15

Critically analyse the processes associated with achieving organisational growth, effective management of change, and the implementation of actions to respond to adversity, including how iwi/M¯aori organisations have managed post settlement growth.

Business Information Systems major - electives totalling 60 credits at Level 8 or 9

Business Information Systems

8

15

Gain an in-depth understanding of the concepts and procedure used in enterprise analysis, design, planning, and implementation, of the successful development and execution of organisational strategy.

Information Security

8

15

Learn to assess the implications of information security and cybercrime trends and evaluate security technologies and procedures in order to design appropriate information security structure for organisations.

Interaction Design

8

15

Learn to define the structure and behaviour of interactive products and services.

Software Engineering Methodologies

8

15

Be able to apply structure and agile software development principles, and to negotiate between them in different contexts.

Software Quality Assurance

8

15

Investigate, critically evaluate, recommend and apply software quality assurance programme in organisations.

Business Analysis

9

15

Learn to apply business analysis methodologies and tools, and understand how they assist organisations to meet specified business needs.

Business Intelligence

9

15

Understand the processes and principles behind data analytics and extract information form large data sets that may be used to benefit a particular business or organisation.

Management of Information Systems

9

15

Understand how information systems should be managed in order to assist in the achievement of the strategic goals of organisations.

Special Topic

8

15

An opportunity to explore current issues and/or developments in a specified topic area.