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Unit Summary

Unit type

PG Coursework Unit

Credit points

12

AQF level

9

Level of learning

Advanced

Former School/College

Former School of Business and Tourism

Unit aim

This course seeks to provide students with the knowledge, skills and competences to manage the strategy process and to engage in critical, creative strategic thinking in order to assure the long-term success of an organisation in highly competitive environments. It examines all aspects of the strategy process – strategic analysis, choice and action – and puts it in context. Since strategy concerns the general direction of the whole organisation beyond narrow functional areas, students need to integrate and apply knowledge and skills gained in previous units. The course develops skills in analysis, interpretation, design, planning, implementation, communication and evaluation. To accomplish these goals the unit is structured around case analysis and simulations of real organisations and their competitive environments.

Unit content

1. Thinking about Strategy
2. Making Sense of the Strategic Context
3. Capabilities, Resources and Competitive Advantage.
4. Purpose, Ethics and Governance
5. Strategising for Competitive Advantage
6. Developing Options for Corporate Strategy.
7. International Business and Strategy
8. Pathways to Strategic Success
9. Leading and Managing Strategic Change
10. The Politics and Practice of Strategy
11. Aligning Structure, Systems and Culture

Learning outcomes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

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On completion of this unit, students should be able to: GA1 GA2 GA3 GA4 GA5 GA6 GA7
1 to develop students ability to critically discuss the theories, concepts and models of strategic management and its place in the practice of management and business
2 to enable students to think strategically about and analyse an organisation, its context and position, its long-term direction and viability, its capabilities, the effectiveness of its strategy, and its capacity to secure sustainable competitive advantage
3 students are equipped to apply strategic management frameworks and tools to conduct strategic analysis, make appropriate strategic choices and implement effective strategies
4 to develop student skills and competences in analysis, interpretation, planning, design, implementation, communication, teamwork and communication
5 students will learn to integrate and synthesise knowledge and skills gained in earlier units and be able to have a sophisticated, whole-of-organisation understanding of strategic practice
6 to equip students to analyse and manage strategy ethically and in proper regard to context, including its relation corporate social responsibility, international and diverse environments, multiple stakeholders and to internal relations and politics.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

  1. to develop students ability to critically discuss the theories, concepts and models of strategic management and its place in the practice of management and business
    • GA1:
    • GA4:
  2. to enable students to think strategically about and analyse an organisation, its context and position, its long-term direction and viability, its capabilities, the effectiveness of its strategy, and its capacity to secure sustainable competitive advantage
    • GA1:
    • GA3:
    • GA4:
    • GA7:
  3. students are equipped to apply strategic management frameworks and tools to conduct strategic analysis, make appropriate strategic choices and implement effective strategies
    • GA1:
    • GA2:
    • GA4:
    • GA6:
  4. to develop student skills and competences in analysis, interpretation, planning, design, implementation, communication, teamwork and communication
    • GA2:
    • GA6:
  5. students will learn to integrate and synthesise knowledge and skills gained in earlier units and be able to have a sophisticated, whole-of-organisation understanding of strategic practice
    • GA1:
    • GA4:
    • GA5:
  6. to equip students to analyse and manage strategy ethically and in proper regard to context, including its relation corporate social responsibility, international and diverse environments, multiple stakeholders and to internal relations and politics.
    • GA3:
    • GA5:
    • GA7:

Prescribed texts

  • Johnson, G, Whittington, R, Scholes, K, Angwin, D & Regnér, P, 2014, Exploring Strategy Text & Cases, 10th edn, Pearson, UK.
Prescribed texts may change in future teaching periods.