MGMT 205Strategic Management
This course provides participants with a working understanding of classic frameworks in strategic management and introduces a selection of new thinking in this area.
Course details
- Dates
- 7 Jul 2025 to 9 Nov 2025
- Starts
- Trimester 2
- Fees
- NZ$962.40 for
- International fees
- NZ$4,427.55
- Lecture start times
- Monday 10.30am
- Campus
- Pipitea
- Estimated workload
- Approximately 150 hours or 8.8 hours per week for 17 weeks
- Points
- 15
Entry restrictions
Taught by
School of Management—Wellington School of Business and Government
About this course
The course engages students in new ways of thinking and reflection on established concepts in strategic management. It develops capability in deploying strategy frameworks effectively so as to undertake and communicate strategic analysis and recommendations. The course promotes an understanding of strategy that is based on an international outlook. It facilitates organizational leadership by attending to current challenges as well as the long-term sustainability of the organization.
Course learning objectives
Students who pass this course should be able to:
Explain and think critically and creatively about strategy frameworks.
Describe and effectively communicate strategic analysis, alternatives and recommendations.
Apply a global and multicultural perspective of strategy.
How this course is taught
In 2025 this course is delivered on campus.
Lectures are in person, on campus. Lectures are recorded and have no restrictions on recording availability. Lecture recordings are intended as a useful supplement to learning but not as a full substitute for lecture attendance.
Tutorials have both on campus and Zoom options.
The course assessment does not require on-campus attendance.
Assessment
- Final Test (2 hours within a 36-hour availability window) Type: IndividualMark: 30%
- Individual assignment 1 Mark: 40%
- Individual assignment 2 Mark: 30%
Assessment dates and extensions
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Mandatory requirements
There are no mandatory requirements for this course.
Lecture times and rooms
What you’ll need to get
Required texts
When you take this course, you must get these texts.
Title: Exploring Strategy
Edition: 11th Edition
Authors: Johnson, G., Whittington, R., Scholes, K., Angwin, D. & Regner, P.
Publisher: Harlow, UK: Pearson
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Selected offering
MGMT 205
7 Jul–9 Nov 2025
Trimester 2 · CRN 28317