1997 Swinburne Higher Education Handbook

Obiectives and content EF618 Management Practices
An introductory course giving: mastery of basic principles of 3 hours per week City Prerequisite: EF616 Management
accounting and double entry bookkeeping to obtain trial Fundamentals Assessment: a combination of personal
balances aid produce profi; and loss siateLents, balance sheets assignments, group assignments, class participation and/or
and funds statements; understanding of financial mathematics exam.
and ability to apply spreadsheets to financial modelling, forecast
financial requirements and to evaluate investments and
A compulsory subiect in the Graduate Diploma in
businesses.
~anagementand the Graduate Diploma ih Management
Recommended Reading
Gaffikin, M. et al. Principles of Accounting. 3rd Aust. edn, Sydney,
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1993
EF616 Management Fundamentals
3 hours per week City Prequisite: nil Assessment: a
combination of personal assignments, group assignments, class
participation and/or exam.
A compulsory subject in the Graduate Diploma in
Management and the Graduate Certificate and Graduate
Diploma in Management (Manufacturing).
Objectives and content
An introductory study of industrial development and the
growth of managerial functions leading to an understanding
of the complexities of managing an enterprise in the business
world of today. The importance of innovation and
entrepreneurship is stressed.
As with other core subjects within the course, the study will
integrate key elements - financial, human and organisational
- of management.
It includes a general introduction to management theories,
to fundamentals of finance, to human and organisational
aspects of management and to fundamental legal concepts of
organisation.
Recommended reading
Robbins, S.P. et al. Organisationul Behaviour: Concepts,
Controversies and Applications in Australia and New Zealand. 6th
edn, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice Hall, 1993
Robbins, S.P. and Coulbar, M. Management. 5th edn, Prentice
Hall, 1996
EF617 Project and Asset Management
2 hours per week City Prerequisite: nil Assessment: a
combination of personal assignments, group assignments, class
participation and/or exam.
-. & An elective subject in the Graduate Diploma in Management
& and the Graduate Diploma in Management (Manufacturing).
Objectives and Content
& An introductory course addressing the requirements of
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project, life cycle and asset management. Considerations
include: project initiation, implementation and termination;
financial and legal requirements; life cycle costing; plant
procurement, operation, reliability, maintenance, update
and disposal.
(Manufacturind. An elective in theGraduate Certificate in
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Management (Manufacturing).
Objectives and Content
An extending course addressing the practice of management
through the development of business strategies (including
innovation and entrepreneurial aspects), and their impact on
marketing, human, quality, operational, legal and financial
faces of an enterprise and its operations.
EF620 Human Aspects
3 hoursper week City or Hawthorn Prequisite: nil
Assessment: a combination of personal assignments, group
assignments, class participation and/or exam.
An elective subject in the Graduate Diploma in Management
and the Graduate Certificate and Graduate Diploma in
Management (Manufacturing).
Objectives and content
This subject is designed to build upon the work of the
introductory work in the first semester and treat the
material with more depth and practicality.
Topics covered include: theoretical base interpersonal
relationship and individual development: individual
differences; personality theory, value and value systems,
group dynamics, - role theory, leadership intergroup
competition, intepersonal communication, perception,
thinking processes and memory. Business politics. Human
resources management: recruitment, selection and training.
Aptitude testing. Management development and personnel
appraisal systems. Wage and salary structures, benefits and
financial reward schemes.
Performance factors motivation, job satisfaction, morale,
management of conflict, organisation structures and their
effects on behaviour, effecting change in the organisation.
Industrial relations practical industrial relations for
supervisors and managers.
Recommended reading
Stone, R.J. Human Resource Management, 2nd edn, John Wiley &
Sons, 1995
EF623 Marketing
3 hours per week City Hawthorn Prerequisite: nil
Assessment: a combination of personal assignments, gfoup
assignments, class participation and/or exam.
A compulsory subject in the Graduate Diploma in
Management and Graduate Diploma in Management
(Manufacturing).
Objectives and content
Develops the skills necessary to meet the marketing needs of
new and high growth venture. During this intensive subject