MGMT320-10S1 (C) Semester One 2010

Strategic Management

28 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 22 February 2010
End Date: Sunday, 27 June 2010
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 7 March 2010
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 23 May 2010

Description

Strategic management is a purposeful endeavour concerned with long-term direction and performance for a firm or organisation. The course involves students in presenting analysis and proposing solutions to strategy issues in major New Zealand and international businesses. Course content includes strategic analysis, business and corporate strategy, and strategy implementation.

Learning Outcomes

The primary objective of the course is to develop students’ ability to apply strategic management techniques to business problems. A key part of this is the ability to debate and clearly express a viewpoint on strategic issues faced by businesses. The resulting skills and understanding will support graduates’ effectiveness in a variety of roles within organisations.

Prerequisites

(1) ACIS102 or AFIS122 or AFIS188 or AFIS102; (2) 44 points from MGMT202, MGMT204, MGMT206, MGMT207, MGMT208, MGMT209, MGMT210, MGMT212, MGMT220, MSCI220, MSCI221.

Restrictions

BSAD304, BSAD314, MGMT314

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

Paul Knott

Lecturer

David Stiles

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Individual Case Quiz 15% Individual Case Quiz
Case Analysis Test 03 May 2010 25% Case Analysis Test
Group Presentation 10% Group Presentation
Final Examination 50% Final Examination

Textbooks / Resources

Recommended Reading

Hill, Charles W. L; Strategic management : an integrated approach ; 2nd Australasian ed; John Wiley & Sons, 2007.

Notes

Relationship to Other Courses:
This is an integrating course bringing together and applying knowledge from all the functional areas of management. It is complemented by MGMT321 Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development. It also prepares students for the B.Com. Honours courses in Strategy and International Business (MGMT443 and MGMT474).

Departmental Academic Policies
If you want a hard copy of this document, please ask the course co-ordinator. The Department assumes that you have read this document. You should also read the “Information related to courses and assessment” on page 35 of the Enrolment Handbook 2010 (also in UC Calendar under “General Course and Examination Regulations”).

Dishonest Practice:
The University of Canterbury considers cheating and plagiarism to be serious acts of dishonesty. All assessed work must be your own individual work unless specifically stated otherwise in the assessment guidelines. Material quoted from any other source must be clearly acknowledged. You must not copy the work of another person (student or published work) in any assessment including examinations, tests and assignments. Any person who is found to have copied someone else's work, or to have allowed their work to be copied, will receive a fail grade for that piece of assessment and may face disciplinary action which may lead to a fine, community service or exclusion from the University.

Use of Turnitin:
Turnitin will be used in this course. Turnitin is a software tool that checks the originality of a piece of text – it can be used to detect plagiarism. An example of plagiarism is copying exactly from a book or website without placing quotation marks around it and including the reference details in your Reference List. Your individual assignment will need to be submitted electronically as well as in printed form – instructions on how to do this will be available on the Blackboard site for the course. Use of the Turnitin service is subject to the terms and conditions posted on Turnitin.com.

Grading:
The grade cutoffs used in this course are shown below. The cut-off points may be varied, and therefore 50% is not necessarily a pass.
A+ 85 B+ 70 C+ 55
A 80 B 65 C 50
A- 75 B- 60 D 40

Coversheets - Group and Individual

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,106.00

International fee $4,736.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Management, Marketing and Tourism .

All MGMT320 Occurrences

  • MGMT320-10S1 (C) Semester One 2010