Bachelor of Business

Course selection includes:

• Contemporary Workplace Relations

  Course Code – 342.716

  Gain a thorough grounding in current theory and empirical research and focus on models of employee involvement and the processes and structures required for successful labour cooperation.

• Employment Relations Practice

  Course Code – 342.614

  Gain the knowledge and skills required to apply major theoretical approaches to past present and future employment relations practice; current New Zealand employment relations best practice in the formation of employment agreements; apply best practice to the operation, enforcement and resolution of personal grievances and disputes; understand the role and motivations of the major parties to employment relations practice in New Zealand, and their complex relationships; and analyse critically and discuss a number of important contemporary issues in New Zealand employment relations practice.

• Statistics for Decision Making

  Course Code – 143.504

  Acquire the skills to gather, interpret and present data to support business decisions. Learn about the basic statistical tools required to critically appraise statistical plots, tables, measures and reasoning presented in business reports. Write reports, with emphasis on supporting business cases and business decision making. Utilise plots, tables and measure with reasoning to explain salient features to others. Obtain data from websites such as StatsNZ. Obtain plots, tables, measures and other statistics such as confidence intervals and test statistics using statistical packages. Interpret output from statistical packages.

• Strategic Human Resource Management

  Course Code – 342.718

  Develop a critical appreciation of Strategic HRM and its role in organisations. Topics include: Strategic HRM; HRM; strategy, structure, culture and HRM; international HRM; HRM in the Pacific Rim area; measuring the effectiveness of HRM; and contemporary issues.

• Integrated Business

  Course Code – 301.708

  Gain a range of perspectives on contemporary organisations. Learn to evaluate different view points, develop and critique business plans for an entrepreneurial start-up business, and assess organisational ethics.

• Employment Relations Law

  Course Code – 342.618

  Gain the knowledge and skills required to understand the development of employment relations law; apply the major theoretical approaches to employment relations law; apply New Zealand employment relations law to the formation, operation and enforcement of employment agreements and resolution of disputes and personal grievances; understand the role, obligations and motivations of the parties to employment relations law in New Zealand, and their complexity relationships; and analyse critically anddiscuss a number of important contemporary issues in New Zealand employment relations law.

• Commercial Law 1

  Course Code – 323.508

  Gain an understanding of the nature of the legal system in New Zealand, especially in the context of business. This covers the legal framework within which business activity occurs, the legislative process, and an introduction to and critique of some of the concepts which form the basis of commercial law.

• Human Resource Management

  Course Code – 342.615

  Understand human resource management principles and practice in the current New Zealand context which includes a Maori perspective.

• Marketing 1

  Course Code – 351.509

  Learn the fundamental principles of marketing and their application to the business environment. Apply this marketing knowledge to develop a marketing plan.

• Occupational Safety and Health Management

  Course Code – 171.605

  Gain an understanding of occupational safety and health including OSH responsibilities and the principles and practices involved in managing occupational safety and health in contemporary New Zealand.

• Computing in Organisations

  Course Code – 561.587

  Gain an understanding of the computing environment in the workplace and how computing is used to meet an organisation’s goals. Also gain an understanding of contemporary computer applications in the workplace. Learn to use typical applications and how to communicate computing needs effectively.

• Work Place Research Project

  Course Code – 341.733 (two semester course)

  Conduct academic or applied research into a nominated work place management issue.

• Business Writing

  Course Code – 185.504

  Learn to write business documents, deliver presentations, and apply intercultural communication skills effectively in the professional environment.

• Business Management

  Course Code – 343.508

  Understand the challenge of “management”. Learn about the new and traditional approaches to key management issues. Gain a respect for both approaches, and the confidence to understand and master them.

• Project Management

  Course Code – 343.605

  Develop an understanding of the planning and control techniques used by project managers to move through the project life cycle. Focus on generic project management techniques as an introduction to the Project Management Body of Knowledge. Proficient use of Microsoft Project 2007 is one of the objectives of this course – a project case study is used to build a project on MS Project using intermediate to advanced features.

• Business Economics

  Course Code – 371.512

  Understand how the New Zealand economic system operates, apply economic concepts within the contemporary business environment, and comprehend the integration of the New Zealand economy with the global economy.

• Business Accounting

  Course Code – 311.527

  Gain an overview of accounting and the use of accounting information as a basis for user decision making.

• Operations Business Management

  Course Code – 341.626

  Understand different techniques and application of operations science, including the basic theory, concepts and terminology of Operations Management for both the manufacturing and service industry contexts and introduces statistical and other analytical techniques with practical application in case situations.

• Applied Project Management

  Course Code – 343.701

  Gain an understanding of project management processes and stakeholders in relation to the effective flow of a specified project. Develop a project plan using project management tools and techniques. Apply the Planning-Monitoring-Controlling cycle to evaluate project constraints (time, cost, performance and customer satisfaction). Apply Project Management tools and techniques using projectsimulation software.

• Organisational Behaviour

• Business Environment

  Course Code – 301.608

  Learn to critically examine the changing business environment (external and internal) and identify key elements of flux and transformation that impact on the contemporary organisation.

• Governance and Ethics

  Course Code – 312.702

  Explore the key elements of good governance and relates these to a range of organisational models, including corporate, public sector and not for profits. Examine the ethical dimensions of business, and individual responses to ethical issues, are also examined, together with the issues relating to social responsibility of corporate and public sector bodies. Undertake an in-depth analysis and produce a governance and ethical framework for an organisation.

• Quality Management

  Course Code – 341.734

  Gain a complete and coherent knowledge and understanding of the theory and practice of quality.Learn about the new and traditional approaches to quality, the role of quality in organisations, barriers to its implementation, and the developments in management thinking which appear to underpin the quality movement.

• Strategic Management

• Leadership

  Course Code – 342.616

  Gain an understanding of current research and theory on leadership and an opportunity to develop leadership skills which can be applied in the workplace.

Plus additional optional courses

You will need to plan your course of study carefully to ensure you meet pre-requisite and co-requisite requirements. You should discuss your study plan with the Programme Leader.