MANAGEMENT PRACTICE AND THEORY

MGT5MPT

2014

Credit points: 15

Subject outline

This subject offers a practitioner's approach to management focussing strictly on the operational context. Management theory is then applied to explain what is taking place in each explored context, giving students diagnostic and analytical frameworks that can be immediately employed in the contemporary industrial setting.

Faculty: Faculty of Business, Economics and Law

Credit points: 15

Subject Co-ordinator: Vanessa Ratten

Available to Study Abroad Students: Yes

Subject year level: Year Level 5 - Masters

Exchange Students: Yes

Subject particulars

Subject rules

Prerequisites: N/A

Co-requisites: N/A

Incompatible subjects: BUA5MGT; BUA4MGT

Equivalent subjects: N/A

Special conditions: N/A

Learning resources

Readings

Resource TypeTitleResource RequirementAuthor and YearPublisher
ReadingsThe Evolution of Management Thought 6th EditionPrescribedDaniel A. Wren, D.,A. and Bedeian, A., G.JOHN WILEY & SONS, INC. 2009

City Campus, 2014, Semester 1, Night

Overview

Online enrolment: Yes

Maximum enrolment size: N/A

Enrolment information:

Subject Instance Co-ordinator: Bret Slade

Class requirements

LectureWeek: 10 - 22
One 3.0 hours lecture per week on any day including weekend at night from week 10 to week 22 and delivered via face-to-face.

Assessments

Assessment elementComments%
One 1,500 word individual paper40
One group assignment(3-4 students per group - 2000 words per person)with viva voce (15-20 mins)(5 mins per student_40
Two x 1-hour in-class test20

City Campus, 2014, Semester 2, Night

Overview

Online enrolment: Yes

Maximum enrolment size: N/A

Enrolment information:

Subject Instance Co-ordinator: Vanessa Ratten

Class requirements

LectureWeek: 31 - 43
One 3.0 hours lecture per week on any day including weekend at night from week 31 to week 43 and delivered via face-to-face.

Assessments

Assessment elementComments%
One 1,500 word individual paper40
One group assignment(3-4 students per group - 2000 words per person)with viva voce (15-20 mins)(5 mins per student_40
Two x 1-hour in-class test20

Melbourne, 2014, Semester 1, Day

Overview

Online enrolment: Yes

Maximum enrolment size: N/A

Enrolment information:

Subject Instance Co-ordinator: Michael Burgess

Class requirements

LectureWeek: 10 - 22
One 3.0 hours lecture per week on any day including weekend during the day from week 10 to week 22 and delivered via face-to-face.

Assessments

Assessment elementComments%
One 1,500 word individual paper40
One group assignment(3-4 students per group - 2000 words per person)with viva voce (15-20 mins)(5 mins per student_40
Two x 1-hour in-class test20

Melbourne, 2014, Semester 2, Day

Overview

Online enrolment: Yes

Maximum enrolment size: N/A

Enrolment information:

Subject Instance Co-ordinator: Vanessa Ratten

Class requirements

LectureWeek: 31 - 43
One 3.0 hours lecture per week on any day including weekend during the day from week 31 to week 43 and delivered via face-to-face.

Assessments

Assessment elementComments%
One 1,500 word individual paper40
One group assignment(3-4 students per group - 2000 words per person)with viva voce (15-20 mins)(5 mins per student_40
Two x 1-hour in-class test20