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Head of School: Professor Christopher Jackson
School Manager: Patricia Cox

The School of Management was formed on 1 January 2012 by the merger of the School of Organisation and Management with the School of Strategy and Entrepreneurship. The course codes for 2012 remain a combination of MGMT and STRE.

Undergraduate Programs

The school offers three distinct majors to Honours level: Human Resource Management, International Business and Management.

The major in Human Resource Management provides a strong applied and theoretical grounding in all aspects of the management of people in paid employment. This School major is designed to provide the breadth of study required for successful professional career mobility in the 'HR' field. Courses in general management, organisation behaviour and human resources are a foundation. It also provides the opportunity to acquire advanced, applied knowledge in specialised human resource functions. These include staff planning, recruitment, selection and development, training, gender equity, employee motivation and performance management, remuneration management, industrial relations, superannuation, employment law, workplace negotiation, international and cross-cultural human resource management, and occupational health and safety. All these areas are influenced by wider corporate strategy and business plans and may play a key role in enhancing organisational performance.

Accordingly, the School's programs place a strong emphasis on the strategic aspects and importance of human resource planning, policy and practice. The major in Human Resource Management provides a solid career basis for those seeking or advancing a career in managing people in paid employment.

International Business is a rapidly growing field of study as economic activity becomes increasingly global in scale. The study of International Business deals with the development, strategy, and management of multinational enterprises and economic relations in the global context of complex and dynamic business environments. Besides the study of multinational enterprises, the field necessarily includes business context studies and culture and communications, which may include language studies. Doing business and making decisions internationally involves greater complexity involving, special knowledge and skills to ensure success.

Strategic decisions have to be made about which countries to operate in and whether or not to export or license, whether to set up new facilities, establish a joint venture or acquire an existing business and how to sustain competitiveness internationally. Critical issues at the international level include global strategy, different business systems, country risk, business negotiations, cultural differences, and performance measurement and evaluation.

The Management major examines the processes, conceptual expertise and work functions involved in managing people and organisations effectively. Broadly, management is concerned with building and developing relationships between people and organisations, formulating goals, designing organisational structures, fostering innovation, building effective communications, controlling resources and facilitating productive activities. Rather than focusing purely on the tasks, roles or functions of managers, this major examines the complex relations between power, people and resources that are the key challenges to effective management.

Theories and predictions concerning new organisational forms, future business trends, international strategy, and more effective management practices are studied in addition to established knowledge in the discipline. The overall objective is to equip future managers to apply knowledge and skill effectively to the complex problems facing organisations in today's dynamic global environment.

The Diploma in Innovation Management (3451) is a unique interdisciplinary undergraduate program administered through the Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) in the School of Strategy and Entrepreneurship. The program aims to encourage an entrepreneurial mind-set and provide students with the knowledge and skills needed for developing business opportunities and commercial innovation.

Course material covers areas such as creativity in enterprises, business principles, business planning for new ventures, funding, management and commercialisation of intellectual property, and valuation and assessment of innovative businesses. Students engage in exercises to set up and run their own new ventures and participate in case studies with Australian and international entrepreneurs. The lectures, workshops, case studies and tutorials in each of the program's courses are delivered by a well-balanced mixture of university academics and expert industry and government professionals

Postgraduate Programs

The School offers coursework and research study in four disciplinary streams: Human Resource Management; Organisation and Management Studies; International Business; and Social Impact.

The major in Human Resource Management provides a strong applied and theoretical grounding in all aspects of the management of people in paid employment. This School major is designed to provide the breadth of study required for successful professional career mobility in the 'HR' field. Courses in general management, organisation behaviour and human resources are a foundation. It also provides the opportunity to acquire advanced, applied knowledge in specialised human resource functions. These include staff planning, recruitment, selection and development, training, gender equity, employee motivation and performance management, remuneration management, industrial relations, superannuation, employment law, workplace negotiation, international and cross-cultural human resource management, and occupational health and safety. All these areas are influenced by wider corporate strategy and business plans and may play a key role in enhancing organisational performance.

Accordingly, the School's programs place a strong emphasis on the strategic aspects and importance of human resource planning, policy and practice. The major in Human Resource Management provides a solid career basis for those seeking or advancing a career in managing people in paid employment.

International Business is a rapidly growing field of study as economic activity becomes increasingly global in scale. The study of International Business deals with the development, strategy, and management of multinational enterprises and economic relations in the global context of complex and dynamic business environments. Besides the study of multinational enterprises, the field necessarily includes business context studies and culture and communications, which may include language studies.

Doing business and making decisions internationally involves greater complexity involving, special knowledge and skills to ensure success. Strategic decisions have to be made about which countries to operate in and whether or not to export or license, whether to set up new facilities, establish a joint venture or acquire an existing business and how to sustain competitiveness internationally. Critical issues at the international level include global strategy, different business systems, country risk, business negotiations, cultural differences, and performance measurement and evaluation.

The Management major examines the processes, conceptual expertise and work functions involved in managing people and organisations effectively. Broadly, management is concerned with building and developing relationships between people and organisations, formulating goals, designing organisational structures, fostering innovation, building effective communications, controlling resources and facilitating productive activities. Rather than focusing purely on the tasks, roles or functions of managers, this major examines the complex relations between power, people and resources that are the key challenges to effective management.

Theories and predictions concerning new organisational forms, future business trends, international strategy, and more effective management practices are studied in addition to established knowledge in the discipline. The overall objective is to equip future managers to apply knowledge and skill effectively to the complex problems facing organisations in today's dynamic global environment.

Graduate Certificate of Social Impact

The Graduate Certificate in Social Impact focuses on building the professional capacity of social managers and entrepreneurs of the future, across the corporate, government and third (not-for-profit) sectors, enhancing their capacity to lead organisations creating social and environmental value and to operate in a changed cross-sector social landscape where the dynamism of the market is also directed at social innovation.

The School Office is in Room 541 Level 5, West Wing, Australian School of Business Building (Map E12).