AUT - Bachelor of Business - Management major
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Bachelor of Business - Management major
The Management major provides an interactive learning environment that reflects the changing nature of business by imitating and critiquing the world of work.
This major develops management knowledge and skills by examining the best local and overseas approaches. The focus includes management of people from different cultures and in different types of organisations.
Structure and content
Part One
Papers in part 1 provide you with an introduction to the roles of business and fundamental concepts in business disciplines. You complete 5 core papers in part 1 which are:
- Business in Context (30 points)
- Management and Organisation (15 points)
- Accounting for Decision Making (15 points)
- Quantitative Methods for Business (15 points)
- Economic Principles I (15 points)
In addition to the 5 core papers you choose 2 elective papers from the list below, or from elsewhere in the university:
- Economic Principles 2 (15 points)
- Introduction to Finance (15 points)
- Fundamentals of Marketing, Advertising, Retailing and Sales (MARS) (15 points)
- Business Information Systems (15 points)
- Design Thinking (15 points)
- Introduction to Tourism (15 points)
- Leadership for Sustainable Enterprise (15 points)
Part Two
Over the next 2 years, you will gain an understanding of the factors that influence people’s behaviour in organisations, learn processes to manage projects and change in the workplace, and analyse aspects of developing and managing people.
Part Three
This is the final part to the Bachelor of Business degree and takes a full semester of study. You have the opportunity to apply what you have learnt in your major(s) to the real world in a business, not-for profit organisation, or entrepreneurial venture. You choose 1 of the 3 following papers:
1) Co-operative Education
A supervised industry placement related to your major in an organisation of your choice. Placements can be done either in New Zealand or overseas. Recent placements included The Warehouse, Vodafone, Auckland Council and Waitemata District Health Board.
Or
2) Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE)
You work as part of a team and create and manage a project to benefit a group within a New Zealand community.
Or
3) Applied Project (normally by invitation only)
You do a supervised individual or group project based within an academic department in the AUT Business School. This option is primarily aimed at those students interested in continuing on to postgraduate study.
Further information about Co-operative Education
PAPERS (90 POINTS)
Level Six:
466641 Organisational Behaviour
Select Two:
466642 Operations Management
466645 Human Resource Management
466646 Employment Relations
466648 Management of SMEs
466649 Training and Development
466650 Project Management
466651 Leadership for Change
Level Seven:
Select Two:
367902 Advanced Management Accounting
467809 International Human Resource Management
467853 Contemporary Themes in Organisational Behaviour
467854 Management of Technology and Innovation
467855 New Dimensions in Entrepreneurship
467942 Organisational Analysis and Decision-Making
467945 Issues in Human Resource Management
467950 eBusiness Management
467951 Issues in Employment Relations
467954 Issues in Project Management
467955 Entrepreneurship and Innovation
467956 Management in the Not for Profit Sector
467958 Logistics and Supply Chain Management
467959 Occupational Stress and Resilience
Related programmes
- Bachelor of Business (Honours)
- Postgraduate Certificate in Business
- Postgraduate Diploma in Business
- Master of Professional Business Studies
- Master of Business
Career opportunities
- Business researcher
- Functional manager
- Management consultant
- Project manager
- Small business operator