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In today’s fast-changing world, research skills have become valuable. This course equips you with the knowledge and capability to design and carry out research that has impact for business or government. You will learn to review literature, design re...

Applied research is a critical skill required in organisations. Through a research internship with an approved organisation this course allows students to experience applied research in an organisational context. The research problem is provided by t...

This course is a supervised individual research project, supplemented by seminars on topics related to stages in the research process.

Understanding the global business environment is a must for any business in a globally connected world. This course provides a contemporary understanding of global institutions; and cross-country differences in political, legal and economic systems. ...

This course offers a broad perspective on modern management in the business, public and voluntary sectors, and examines key issues likely to face managers in the near future.

Leadership often means knowing where and how to compete. Strategic Marketing provides students with the theoretical frameworks and practical tools to achieve and sustain an organisation’s competitive advantage. Students are presented with real busine...

This course introduces students 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; and cost allocation principles. T...

To be successful in the global market, firms need to develop an effective strategy. This course provides an understanding of frameworks and concepts in strategic management with a focus on global competition, collaborations and corporate governance. ...

Graduates looking to expand their career in global business must have cross-cultural management skills. Students will examine the implications of culture on managerial practices and build communication, negotiation and leadership skills.

The project involves visiting and working with an organisation, doing internal and external research, placing the work in a global context, and producing a report and presentation, to a brief agreed with the client.

This course aims to provide students with applied research methodologies whereby practical solutions to real organisational issues can be derived. Students need to identify a relevant issue, position it in a global context, propose an applicable meth...

A critical approach to the role of communication in an environment of exponential growth of new information. The course is concerned with the principles of communications design and critical thinking with special reference to communications mediated ...

The course provides learners with critical insights into the impact of artificial intelligence across individual, organisational and societal levels. Students will explore ethical, strategic, organizational, and regulatory aspects of AI, examining bo...

Course content will vary on individual programme of study.

This introductory course in management offers a broad perspective on modern management in the business, public and voluntary sectors, and examines key issues likely to face managers in the near future.

An exploration of a knowledge base to enable students to better understand, work with and manage people in organisational settings, comprising insights into facets of human behaviour in organisations.

This course provides participants with a working understanding of classic frameworks in strategic management and introduces a selection of new thinking in this area.

An examination of various approaches to understanding and improving managerial decision making, challenging students to think systemically about complex issues that confront managers when managing change, resources or processes, and in general, manag...

The course introduces students to the processes, supply chains and operational systems that determine the value added by an organisation’s primary products and services. It prepares future managers across every sector of the economy for leading, orga...

An introduction to the theories and practices of ethical leadership with a focus on organisations. Drawing on New Zealand case studies, students will learn about the meaning and importance of ethical leadership for organisations, recognise the role o...

The concept of sustainability will be critically examined with reference to different business sectors to establish its role as a foundation for sustainable business development. The 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will be unpa...

Put your management knowledge into practice by with a business or organisation to tackle a real-life business challenge. Guided by a problem-based learning approach, you’ll collaborate as consultants to investigate an applied problem, develop solutio...

Events offer economic, social, and environmental opportunities and challenges for the organisations and communities that host and manage them. You will explore sustainability and green events, how to influence the behaviour of event attendees, and wh...

The course will focus on how to help people and communities generate value by seizing opportunities to solve commercial, social, environmental, or civic problems. It provides an introduction to the concepts and capabilities necessary to develop new i...

Supply chain logistics management is positioned as a value-adding process that achieves time and place synchronisation of demand stimulation, order fulfilment and plays a critical role in developing and implementing a firm’s effective supply chain st...

Why are some companies consistently profitable while others aren’t? How can other firms catch up? This course examines strategies and sources of competitive and cooperative advantage, including their values and resources, business models, coopetition...

An examination of major themes in the strategic management of knowledge including building and acquiring knowledge as well as transferring and transforming knowledge to enhance the organisation's competitiveness. Issues related to different types of ...

The course addresses sustainable operations management as the pursuit of social, economic and environmental objectives, the triple bottom line, within operations of a specific firm and operational linkages that extend beyond the firm to include the s...

An examination of selected managerial problem structuring methodologies and analytic approaches to decision-making, emphasising an applied computer-oriented approach, and the development of decision-making, problem-solving and judgmental skills, part...

This course adopts a project-based approach to understanding processes for innovation and change, emphasising organisational dimensions and exploring features of new venture and new product development, intrapreneurship and entrepreneurship, and orga...

An examination of the structure, administration, planning and promotion of sport at the international, national, regional and local levels with special reference to the management of sporting clubs and associations.

Organisations, leaders, and employees can face complex ethical decisions in the workplace. This course critically examines the role of ethics in developing successful organisations (and successful individuals). We explore how to identify ethical dile...

Digital technologies have brought technology and communication theory together to improve how organisations understand their people. These include software and devices that track where people go, who they interact with and their levels of engagement....

Indigenous Management Around the World centres Indigenous Peoples’ perspectives on experiences of work, managing, and organising. In Part 1 of the course, students explore Indigenous philosophies and approaches to management. Part 2 of the course foc...

An examination of alternative models of managerial decision-making processes, including strategic decision-making; a study of the role and impact of modelling in decision-making; and of factors such as risk, judgement, ambiguity etc.

The course examines the theoretical and practical aspects of emerging technologies and their impact on organisations, society, and individuals. In this course, students will assess how various emerging technologies solve problems and create values th...

This course adopts a project-based approach to understanding processes for innovation and organisational change, while exploring the features of new venture creation, product development, intrapreneurship, entrepreneurship, and organisational develop...

An in-depth examination of current topics and debates in organisational behaviour. The course is premised on the assumption that there are numerous different perspectives for understanding individual and group behaviour in organisations.

Course content will vary on individual programme of study.

An examination of current management challenges affecting the strategic direction of the enterprise over the short and long term. The course will highlight recent developments in strategic management theory and practice.

This course is a supervised individual research project, supplemented by seminars on topics related to stages in the research process.

This course examines how domestic and global organisations manage complexity in the pursuit of innovation, sustainability and value creation.

Research Project on a selected topic in the discipline.

MCom thesis in Management.

90 point Thesis in Management.

60 point dissertation in Management.

PhD course.

To be determined for each individual student.

PhD course.