The course will challenge students to reflect on leading in organisations, building teams, creating change and implementing human resource initiatives. It will enable students to explore: individual behaviour in the workplace; group dynamics, includi...

This course focuses on economic, social and political contexts of internal decision making within organisations, and how these factors enable and constrain business strategies. Industrial organisation and applied microeconomic theories and literature...

The implications of commercial law for business organisations. Particular emphasis will be placed on contract and tort laws, the law of organisations, intellectual property law and administrative law with respect to business decision-making.

Effective organisational leaders need to harness the value of digital transformation. We will start by exploring organisational practices as a basis for understanding how information systems enable organisations to work together. Then we will investi...

An introduction to the concepts of financial and management accounting, covering the content of financial statements; concepts of value and profit, cost behaviour and cost-volume-profit relationships; cost allocation principles.

The course covers basic principles of investing: time value of money, valuation of debt and equity securities, discounted cash flow as a foundation for stock prices, the impact of diversification and leverage on portfolio risk, the relationship betwe...

Marketing is about competing in the marketplace and is the link between strategy and operations. Students learn about the strategic marketing process and apply theory and practical frameworks to real-world problems in business and Government. Student...

Management of operating sectors of manufacturing and service organisations, with emphasis on systemically describing, critically analysing and creatively improving operating systems. Examination of the major activities involved in deploying key physi...

Students are provided with a foundation in the theory and practice of global business consultancy. This course examines the global business environment, cross-cultural management issues and global strategies available to firms to leverage internation...

A multiple-perspective approach to the framing and solution of problems, and practical application of conceptual models and methods of analysis to critically examine everyday managerial decision-making.

Students are provided with a foundation in the theory and practice of global business consultancy. This course examines the global business environment, cross-cultural management issues and global strategies available to firms to leverage internation...

A research project in a selected area of management.

Participants will gain a toolkit of strategic management frameworks and learn to creatively apply and adapt these to private, public, and not-for-profit organisational contexts. Key strategic issues facing managers in complex multi-objective strategi...

This course draws on a variety of creative arenas, including design arts, theatre, music and film to facilitate personal development and insight. A creative exploration of the field of leadership emphasising an experiential, hands-on approach. Projec...

A case-based course focusing on current issues in management from a cross-cultural perspective. Students will have the opportunity to interact with and learn from other students studying in various MBA programmes around the world.

Theory and practice of the management of projects in organisations. The system development cycle; organisational and behavioural issues; systems and procedures for scheduling, resource allocation, control, and evaluation of projects.

Marketing communications are formulated within a buyer context. Students explore how media elements support an organisation’s positioning strategy and integrate with the marketing mix. Students will closely focus on the principles of advertising and ...

An overview of the analysis and evaluation of corporate performance, financial conditions and future prospects as set out in corporate entities' published annual reports and financial statements.

An exploration of academic and practitioner perspectives on the challenges and complexities of effective change leadership in organisations.

A critical analysis of models of strategic human resource management within the context of international practice. The focus is on the strategic management of employees in a manner that contributes to competitive advantage. Issues of human resource p...

The theory and practice of entering into, managing, and ending the employment relationship, including economic, political, social and technological contexts. The range of employment-related law and policy, the rights and duties of employers and emplo...

An advanced-level consideration of topics such as new ventures, new product development, entrepreneurship, intrapreneurship, creativity, disruptive change and organisation development. This course will focus on the nature and process of innovation, a...

The objective of this course is to teach students how planning, strategy, and knowledge can support goals in negotiation situations and disputes resolution. It explores various types of negotiations, including distributive (win/lose) bargaining, inte...

This course explores theories and research related to communication before, during, and after a crisis. Course topics will cover a wide range of crises including organisational crises, product harm crises, natural disasters, and pandemics.

A research methodology course designed to enable students to write a publishable case study about management or policy decision, problem or opportunity, and relate it to the relevant theory.

The course explores the economic and strategic principles underpinning the development of the Information Economy and e-Commerce, and develops skills in critical analysis of the ways in which firms and governments are participating in the developing ...

An advanced study of business sustainability, defined as the concurrent pursuit of economic prosperity, environmental quality, and social equity.

The course provides an overview of exchange rates including their impact on business operations and a strategic perspective of linkages and interrelationships in financial resource management in an open economy such as New Zealand.

All the principal areas of macroeconomics will be covered with the emphasis on open economy models involving national accounts, economic growth, fiscal, monetary and external policies together with their impacts on business operations.

This course focuses on the role of innovation in the economy and on policy interventions to underpin an innovation-based growth economy.

The analysis and application of the economic principles of corporate governance and management in the public, private and nonprofit sectors to examples in the New Zealand and international environments.