BUSINESS FOUNDATIONS

BUS1BUF

Not currently offered

Credit points: 15

Subject outline

In this subject you will look at how businesses operate today in local, regional and global environments and how they may need to operate into the future. You will engage actively with current business issues, focusing particularly on the impact of external and internal environments on businesses and individuals. In addition, this subject is designed to develop your critical thinking and creative problem-solving with a particular focus on management, marketing and human resource practices. You will also examine and address contemporary business social issues drawn from various organisational and cultural contexts.

School: La Trobe Business School (Pre 2022)

Credit points: 15

Subject Co-ordinator: Shalinka Jayatilleke

Available to Study Abroad/Exchange Students: Yes

Subject year level: Year Level 1 - UG

Available as Elective: No

Learning Activities: N/A

Capstone subject: No

Subject particulars

Subject rules

Prerequisites: N/A

Co-requisites: N/A

Incompatible subjects: BUS1BIB

Equivalent subjects: BUS1BIB

Quota Management Strategy: N/A

Quota-conditions or rules: N/A

Special conditions: N/A

Minimum credit point requirement: N/A

Assumed knowledge: N/A

Learning resources

Business Foundations

Resource Type: Book

Resource Requirement: Prescribed

Author: Compiled by La Trobe Business School

Year: 2016

Edition/Volume: N/A

Publisher: Cengage Learning

ISBN: 9780170381413

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Career Ready

Career-focused: No

Work-based learning: No

Self sourced or Uni sourced: N/A

Entire subject or partial subject: N/A

Total hours/days required: N/A

Location of WBL activity (region): N/A

WBL addtional requirements: N/A

Graduate capabilities & intended learning outcomes

Graduate Capabilities

COMMUNICATION - Communicating and Influencing
COMMUNICATION - Cultural Intelligence and Global Perspective
COMMUNICATION - Digital Capability
INQUIRY AND ANALYSIS - Creativity and Innovation
INQUIRY AND ANALYSIS - Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
INQUIRY AND ANALYSIS - Research and Evidence-Based Inquiry
PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL - Ethical and Social Responsibility
PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL - Leadership and Teamwork

Intended Learning Outcomes

01. Communicate effectively to culturally-diverse audiences through professional oral presentations
02. Communicate effectively to culturally-diverse audiences through structured written arguments in professional report format
03. Demonstrate and justify the use of management skills to solve a contemporary social problem in a dynamic business environment
04. Research and evaluate an existing business based in a local, regional or global context; define its internal and external environments; and identify a strategy to best align the business' internal capabilities with its external opportunities
05. Research, define and argue a business case to justify a new product appropriate to the socio-cultural and economic context
06. Search for, locate and evaluate discipline-specific information
Subject not currently offered - Subject options not available.