Master in Business Administration Graduate Certificate in Business Administration

Master in Business Administration Graduate Certificate in Business Administration The way the world is doing business is changing and Griffith Business School is preparing you for the new rules. In the wake of the global financial crisis and the general dissatisfaction with current corporate ethics, Government and industry bodies perceive this to be the future of any successful business. Our Business Administration programs are preparing the next generation of leaders in sustainable business practices and triple bottom-line accountability. You will graduate with leadership and strategic capabilities suitable for multi-cultural environments, an ability to be effective in a socially responsible and sustainable manner in an increasingly global workplace plus the capacity to analyse, interpret and ethically apply triple bottom line principles. You ll go further with one of our Business Administration programs behind you. Griffith Business School is accredited by The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB)- International. The Griffith MBA is the only MBA in Queensland and one of only two MBA s in Australia to have been awarded a 5 star rating for seven consecutive years by the Graduate Management Association of Australia (GMAA). Who would benefit from this program? The Griffith MBA is ideal for experienced professionals who are seeking to advance their capabilities and expand their thought leadership in a chosen specialisation. The Graduate Certificate in Business Administration is available for those who have extensive work experience in supervisory and/or management roles, but do not meet the academic requirements for entry into the MBA program. An undergraduate degree is NOT required for entry into the Graduate Certificate program. Study pathway The Graduate Certificate may provide a pathway to the Griffith MBA for eligible students. Students may be eligible for advanced standing towards the MBA program. The MBA program provides a pathway for eligible MBA students to undertake a supervised dissertation on a topic of their choice. The dissertation can then form the basis for entry into a research higher degree program. Host: Location: Program Duration: Mode of Offer: Program Director: Fees: Griffith Business School South Bank and Gold Coast 0.5 years full-time; one year part-time (Grad Cert 40CP) 1.5 years full-time; three years part-time (Master 120CP) Two years full-time; four years part-time (Master Adv 160CP) The core courses are offered in face-to-face teaching mode Dr Paul O Brien +61 7 373 53250 mbadirector@griffith.edu.au $2,545.00 per 10CP (domestic student price) $2,800.00 per 10CP (international students) 1

Admission Requirements: Graduate Certificate A minimum of seven years equivalent full-time work experience including two years in a management or supervisory level in a business environment Master A bachelors degree in any discipline with a minimum grade point average of 4.5 (using a 7.0 point scale) AND a minimum of three years relevant equivalent full-time work experience post-degree including two years equivalent full-time in a management or supervisory level; OR a Graduate Certificate in Business Administration from Griffith University with a minimum grade point average of 4.0 and a minimum of two years equivalent full-time work experience in a management or supervisory level position in a business environment. Master Hons Completion of a minimum of 40CP from the MBA program with a minimum Grade Point Average (GPA) of 5.5 Master (Advanced) Achieve a grade point average of 5.0 after completing the first 80 credit points of coursework in the Griffith Master of Business Administration [5158 or 5159] program (only courses studied in the Griffith MBA program will be considered for the purpose of calculating the required grade point average). Graduate Testimonial The MBA certainly opened quite a lot of doors and helped me to secure the job I'm currently in - it was probably the edge that got me a seat at the interview. I'm confident this qualification will provide many opportunities for the future as well. Gary Parkin - MBA graduate Associate, National Australia Bank Business Banking Centre Graduate Certificate in Business Administration Students must complete 40CP from the core MBA courses (any four core courses or equivalent). Master of Business Administration Students must complete the following 80CP of core courses PLUS 40CP (four courses) from an approved specialisation OR International exchange component. MBA core course list SB GC 1/2 I,II I,II 7901AFE Accounting for Managers 10 1/2 II I,II 7902AFE Business Economics 10 1/2 I,III II 7905AFE Corporate Finance 10 1/2 I II 7906MKT Marketing Management 10 1/2 II I 7907MGT Managing Strategically* 10 1/2 II I 7908MKT Understanding Data for Decision Making 10 1/2 II,III II 7910MGT Leadership and Communication 10 1/2 I,III I 7916MGT Human Resource Management 10 2

*7907MGT Managing Strategically Pre-requisites are in place for the course. Students who have not met the pre-requisites must gain approval from the MBA Director to enrol. Course One: 7901AFE Accounting for Managers This course examines the generation and use of an organisation's financial information for decision making and encompasses both financial accounting and management accounting topics. The course concentrates on accounting systems in general, construction and analysis of financial statements, costing, performance measurement, and accounting for decision making, planning and control. Upon completion of the course, students will have furthered their appreciation of the role and value of accounting in improving firm performance; developed their understanding and skill in financial statement preparation and analysis, as well as cost and budgetary analysis for management decision making, planning and control. The course will be presented each week in a three hour seminar block for the duration of the semester. Course material placed on the web includes course outline, lecture notes, solutions to homework, assessment material and administration notices. Course Two: 7902AFE Business Economics This course is suited to managers, business administrators and those who engage in strategic decision-making in a business environment. Business managers need to understand both the nature of the macroeconomic environment in which they make those decisions and the nature of the market in which their firm operates. This course provides a practical approach to these matters, using a problem solving approach and collaborative learning. The course will be presented each week in a three hour class for the duration of the semester and is classified as Mode B - Web Dependent. Under this mode, you must use the web to interact with the education content necessary for study. Face-to-face inclass activities are designed to enhance the education content on the web. Course Three: 7905AFE Corporate Finance This course aims to provide a broad introduction to the study of corporate finance. In keeping with the central role of finance in corporate management, it is a foundation core course for all students undertaking the Master of Business Administration degree. An understanding of corporate finance is essential for a mastery of business administration and for the effective performance of a senior management role regardless of specific function. Sustainability issues from a corporate finance perspective will also be examined pertaining to resource productivity, risk management, as well as aspects that contribute to a more informed consideration of corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, the impact of emissions trading scheme and Kaplan s triple bottom line. Corporate finance is an essential prerequisite knowledge for those students who wish to undertake further studies in finance. The course will be delivered in a lecture/workshop format during the semester. This format will involve the presentation of material by the lecturer, throughout which student participation and involvement is encouraged. Course Four: 7906MKT Marketing Management This course offers a conceptual basis for making marketing decisions in a modern-day business environment where organisations face competitive, social and environmental challenges in delivering customer value and achieving their business objectives. Marketing management requires a broad understanding of consumer behaviour and contemporary marketing strategies related to product development and management, pricing, distribution and communication, to enable decision making that reflects an understanding of social impact and sustainability principles. This course is offered in flexible learning mode. This means that all course material is available on the Griffith Business School website. Classroom sessions will comprise of three hour workshops. The primary purpose of the workshops is to integrate concepts and understand them in the context of business. Course Five: 7907MGT Managing Strategically This course focuses on strategic management as a dynamic process that deals with the challenges posed by the highly turbulent and global environment of the 21st century. It is designed to sharpen students' ability to think strategically, to evaluate organisational situations from a strategic perspective and to reach sound strategic decisions. It covers the use and techniques of strategic analysis as the foundation for strategy formulation, provides an in-depth discussion of the development of strategic alternatives and presents concepts and methodologies for improving the calibre of strategy implementation and evaluation. The course will be delivered in intensive mode on the Gold Coast campus over six Saturdays. Each session will involve a review and discussion of the set readings followed by group workshops in which students will engage with a strategy-related exercise or a case study. Course Six: 7908MKT Data Decision Making Business decision making is increasingly dependent upon the decision maker s ability to prepare, analyse and interpret key business data. Business metrics are increasing in importance. This course helps us understand the fundamental characteristics and meaning of the data and information that are commonly used in business, as well as the principles of Business Intelligence. Rather than taking a dry mathematics/statistics approach to dealing with numbers, we emphasise the use and interpretation of statistical 3

information by critical analysis, and effective use of graphs and tables. A key pre-requisite to this analysis is the availability of reliable, complete and accurate business data. In the second part of the course students are introduced to the principles of data warehousing and data mining. In business and most other human pursuits we must deal with and communicate with data. A key part of this course is to explore the many ways that data can be sourced, stored, retrieved and presented. With such skills we can make better decisions, and help others make better decisions, and importantly avoid making costly wrong decisions. The course is presented in a seminar and workshop format that includes formal seminar lectures and workshops with supporting learning activities and discussion. There will be a total of three contact hours allocated each week for this course. inar lectures will be two hours long and will be supplemented with a laboratory workshop of one hour each week. Course Seven: 7910MGT Leadership and Communication This course provides a comprehensive contemporary overview of this leadership communication domain, covering key areas like corporate social responsibility (CSR) stakeholder leadership practices, ethics and environmental and business sustainability. Translating this conceptual knowledge into practice, the classroom is set up as a simulated organisational-environment in order to provide vocational students with the opportunity to role-play appropriate leadership communication skills, in a risk-free environment. The resulting intersection of conceptual and applied know-how will provide students with the necessary social capital to survive and thrive in an interdependent local-global world economy. Classes will be held in simulated organisational-classroom format in four hours blocks during the semester. Students will apply the content of the course to experiences they encounter in their daily work setting, linking into events that are unfolding in organisations around the globe. Course Eight: 7916MGT Human Resource Management This course concentrates on how people are managed, as a resource, and how best to leverage the great resource they provide while also behaving responsibly and ethically. The social and ethical considerations and dilemmas integral to effectively managing people are examined, including the areas of: recruitment and selection, the management of performance, workforce diversity and work-life balance. Other areas explored include how to develop and implement effective and efficient human resource practices that support the strategic objectives of organisations, such as the training and development of people. In this context, the sustainable organisation is one which can attract, hire and retain the best employees. Case material, readings, presentations and audiovisual material will be used to stimulate discussion of the important and strategic matters to be tackled by managers today and in the future. Special focus upon undertaking persuasive oral presentations will be an element of this course as part of the MBA Program. The course will be presented in seminar format in six and a half hour (Gold Coast campus) or four hour (Southbank campus) blocks. inars will be interactive and will comprise short lectures, exercises, class discussion of cases and mini-presentations by students. Specialisation Courses Students are required to complete four specialisation courses designed to advance their individual knowledge and competencies in areas of management relevant to their personal goals. Your knowledge and skills will be enhanced through the over 50 elective courses which sit within our ten specialisations. These specialisations are as follows: Educational Leadership Finance Financial Planning General Management Human Resource Management Information Systems International Business Logistics and Supply Chain Management Marketing Management Sustainable Enterprise Educational Leadership Specialisation This specialisation (via external or on-line mode) is offered to MBA students only. Students must complete the following 40CP of courses: I 7020CTL Leading Educational Organisations 10 I 7014CTL Educational Leadership in Policy Contexts 10 II 7241CTL Leaders, Ethics and the Law 10 II 7015CTL Leading Learning 10 4

Finance Specialisation Students must complete the following 30CP of courses: I 7204AFE Financial Institutions Management 10 I 7203AFE Corporate Financial Risk Management 10 II 7232AFE Wealth Management 10 PLUS 10CP from the following elective courses: I 7223AFE Financial Institutions and Instruments 10 I 7202AFE Financial Planning 10 II 7233AFE Credit and Lending 10 Financial Planning Specialisation Students must complete 40CP from the following courses: I 7106AFE Income Tax Law 10 I 7202AFE Financial Planning 10 I 7203AFE Corporate Financial Risk Management 10 II 7232AFE Wealth Management 10 II 7208AFE Financial Planning, Construction and Review 10 II 7214AFE Retirement and Estate Planning 10 General Management Specialisation Students must complete any 40CP combination of approved postgraduate courses offered within the Griffith Business School and approved by the MBA Director. Human Resource Management Specialisation Students must complete 30CP from the following courses: NA GC I I 7427MGT Recruitment and Selection 10 I,II I 7410MGT Strategy and Human Resources 10 II II 7419MGT Performance and Reward Management 10 5

PLUS 10CP from the following elective courses (please check the Course Catalogue for further information): NA GC I I 7405MGT HR Learning and Development 10 I I 7342MGT International HRM 10 I 7309MGT Managing People 10 II 7310MGT Human Resource Information Systems 10 II II 7414MGT Human Resource Innovation and Change Management 10 II II,III 7415MGT Globalisation and Corporate Social Responsibility 10 Information Systems Specialisation Students must complete 40CP from the following courses: I 7401MGT Quality Project and Change Management (offered at SB) 10 I 7304MGT Business Intelligence Systems 10 I 7308MGT Information Policy and Governance 10 II 7503MGT Data Resource Management 10 II 7305MGT Information Management and Control 10 II 7310MGT HR Information Systems 10 II 7303MGT Mobile Workforce Technologies 10 International Business Specialisation NA GC Core course (MBA only) I,II I 7921IBA International Business 10 PLUS MBA students must complete 30CP and IMBA students must complete 40CP from the following courses: I II 7928IBA Cross-Cultural Management 10 I 7013IBA Politics of the Global Economy 10 I I 7342MGT International HRM 10 II 7004IBA Trade, Investment and Economic Policy in Asia 10 II 7008IBA Global Business Strategy 10 II II 7924IBA International Negotiation 10 II II,III 7415MGT Globalisation and Corporate Social Responsibility 10 Logistics and Supply Chain Management Specialisation Students must complete the following 40CP of courses: I 7601MGT Operations Management 10 I 7602MGT Strategic Supply Chain Management 10 II 7603MGT Business Logistics 10 II 7604MGT Legal Aspects of Procurement 10 6

Marketing Management Specialisation Students must complete the following 20CP of courses: NA GC I II 7209MKT Integrated Marketing Communications 10 II I 7210MKT Advanced Consumer Decision Making 10 PLUS 20CP from the following elective courses (which may not be offered each year please check the Course Catalogue for further information): Catalog Nbr NA GC SB Course CP I 7208MKT Interactive Marketing 10 I II 7030MKT Entrepreneurial Innovation Marketing 10 II I 7205MKT Branding 10 I II 7206MKT Service Sector Marketing and Operations 10 II 7107MKT Franchising (also offered on-line) 10 II II,III 7415MGT Globalisation and Corporate Social Responsibility 10 Sustainable Enterprise Specialisation Students must complete the following 40CP of courses: I 7505GBS Business Responsibility for Sustainable Development 10 I 7506GBS Environmental Management 10 II 7507GBS Stakeholder Management 10 II 7508GBS Sustainable Enterprise, Leadership and Change 10 Master of Business Administration with Honours Students from the MBA program will be considered for entry into the MBA Honours Stream upon application to the MBA Director. For applications to be successful, students must have completed a minimum of 40CP (four core courses or equivalent) from the MBA program and have a minimum Grade Point Average (GPA) of 5.5 across the best four core courses (40CP) undertaken within the MBA program. A suitable topic and supervisory arrangements must also be evident and elaborated in a research proposal of not less than 1000 words. The final decision regarding entry to the MBA Honours Stream is at the discretion of the MBA Director. Students must complete 60CP from the following core courses: Core course list SB GC 1/2 I,II I,II 7901AFE Accounting for Managers 10 1/2 II I,II 7902AFE Business Economics 10 1/2 I,III II 7905AFE Corporate Finance 10 1/2 I II 7906MKT Marketing Management 10 1/2 II I 7908MKT Understanding Data for Decision Making 10 1/2 II,III II 7910MGT Leadership and Communication 10 1/2 I,III I 7916MGT Human Resource Management 10 7

Plus 10CP for the following core course: Core course list SB GC 2 II I 7907MGT Managing Strategically 10 Plus 10CP for the following research methods course: Research methods course list SB GC 2 I,II I 7001GBS Research Design and Methods 10 Plus 40CP for the following dissertation courses: Dissertation course list SB GC 2 I,II I,II 8001GBS_P1 Griffith Business School Dissertation 10 2 I,II I,II 8001GBS_P2 Griffith Business School Dissertation 10 2 I,II I,II 8001GBS_P3 Griffith Business School Dissertation 10 2 I,II I,II 8001GBS_P4 Griffith Business School Dissertation 10 International Exchange Students may complete an International Exchange in place of a specialisation course (40CP). Students wishing to apply for the 40CP International exchange component must: Achieve a grade point average (GPA) of no less than 5.0 in their first semester of study or first 40CP of core courses or the GPA associated with the specific exchange program (whichever is higher); and have completed at least six core courses prior to departure; and gain approval from the MBA Director to study at a preferred overseas institution. Selected MBA students will have the opportunity to attend the European Summer School for Advanced Management (ESSAM) or the Asian Intensive School of Advanced Management (AISAM) to explore the future of business in an international environment. Qualified students can apply to enrol in either program which will be credited to your MBA as 20CP of free choice electives. Master of Business Administration (Advanced) Students who have met the articulation requirement of a grade point average of 5.0 after studying 80CP of Griffith coursework in the MBA program may study an additional 40CP of specialisation courses or undertake the International Exchange. Program Delivery The MBA is offered at the Graduate Centre, South Bank campus and the Gold Coast campus. Prior study may reduce the program duration by up to four courses (40 credit points). Summer semesters may be offered subject to enrolments. Applications close on 31 January for semester one and 30 June for semester two annually. Summer semester courses are offered subject to enrolments. Contact Us Further information on this program is available at: E: mba@griffith.edu.au T: (07) 373 54146 W: www.griffith.edu.au/mba Chat Online Further assistance is available via our online chat facility between 2.00pm and 3.00pm (Australian Eastern Standard Time) every Monday and Wednesday. Simply add our address to your MSN Messenger contacts: gbs-postgrad@hotmail.com. CRICOS Provider Number: 00233E. Information correct as at June 2009 8