| 8W Teaching Period 4, 2022 Online | |
| Units : | 1 |
| Faculty or Section : | Faculty of Business, Education, Law and Arts |
| School or Department : | School of Business |
| Grading basis : | Graded |
| Course fee schedule : | /current-students/administration/fees/fee-schedules |
Requisites
Pre-requisite: MBA8001 and MBA8002 and MBA8003 and MBA8004 and MBA8005 and MBA8006 and MBA8007 and MBA8008 and MBA8009 and MBA8010 and Students must be enrolled in the following Program: MBAL
Pre-requisite or Co-requisite: MBA8011
Overview
Successful leaders of the future need to be able to operate at a strategic level, integrating all aspects of the business along with their personal characteristics and attributes. Achieving this focus requires a transformational approach to learning and capability development. In this capstone experience, students are provided with the agency to dream big, free from constraints of geography and resources, and to apply with confidence the skills and knowledge they have learned through the program.
As a capstone course, you will have the opportunity to apply and integrate the knowledge and skills you have developed through the program to a real-world problem that may be local or global in nature. In doing so you will be encouraged to reflect on and leverage your personal transformation from operational to strategic thinking. This course will require you to demonstrate research and analytical skills to create a strategic response to a problem that shows the ability to integrate all facets of the organisation and balance issues of risk and governance with quality and growth.
Course learning outcomes
On successful completion of this course students should be able to:
- Reflect on the transformation of personal attributes and qualities that evidences their shift from operational to strategic thinking
- Synthesise advanced business and leadership theories, models and frameworks and apply these to a research project
- Collect and curate complex data and information from a range of sources to inform research outcomes
- Leverage knowledge and skills to design a strategic response to a local or global problem that balances the demands of quality and growth.
Topics
| Description | Weighting(%) | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Reflection on learning across the program and integration of knowledge and skills into a capstone project | 20.00 |
| 2. | Models and frameworks of leadership and business | 15.00 |
| 3. | Designing research | 20.00 |
| 4. | Conducting research | 20.00 |
| 5. | Strategic responses to a local or global research problem | 25.00 |
Text and materials required to be purchased or accessed
Student workload expectations
To do well in this subject, students are expected to commit approximately 10 hours per week including class contact hours, independent study, and all assessment tasks. If you are undertaking additional activities, which may include placements and residential schools, the weekly workload hours may vary.
Assessment details
| Description | Weighting (%) |
|---|---|
| Workbook activities weeks 1-3 | 30 |
| Workbook activities weeks 4-6 | 30 |
| Report | 40 |