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Courses Handbook 2015

This handbook contains information on courses and components (majors, minors, streams and units) at Curtin in 2015.
Information for the previous year's courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2014.

MGMT6040 (v.1) Resource Sector Management

Area: Department of Minerals and Energy Economics
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 32.0
TUITION PATTERNS: The tuition pattern provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. Precise information is included in the unit outline.
Lecture: 1 x 3 Hours Weekly
Equivalent(s): 306032 (v.3) Resource Sector Management 601 or any previous version
UNIT REFERENCES, TEXTS, OUTCOMES AND ASSESSMENT DETAILS: The most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes, will be provided in the unit outline.
Syllabus: Strategic management - Porter's five forces and generic strategies, Porter's value chain - influence upon organisational structure. The resource-based view of the firm (core and key competence), does industry matter? Competitive strategy, cooperative strategy and 'co-opetition', McKinsey's seven S's (strategy, structure, skills, style, staff, shared values, system), corporate strategy (the role of the corporate centre), portfolio theory and conglomerates, 'new' economy versus 'old' economy business models - Is there a difference? Operations management - principles of scientific management (Taylorism), theory of constraints (Goldratt), critical path project management, 'Lean' production (the Toyota production system), inventory management (is inventory an asset or liability?), management accounting (why use it?) and operations performance metrics. This unit has 32 contact hours taught over an eight day intensive course.
Field of Education: 080300 Business and Management (Narrow Grouping)
Result Type: Grade/Mark


Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2015 Perth City Campus Trimester 2 Y        

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External


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