BUSINESS 112 : Managing Sustainable Growth 1

Business and Economics

2024 Semester One (1243) (15 POINTS)

Course Prescription

Develops understanding of how to manage people, processes and resources for the benefit of business and society. Focuses on the decisions and trade-offs involved in growing a business, managing customer relationships, and competing in international markets. Explores strategies to enhance productivity and ensure sustainability, and how legal tools can be used to protect value.

Course Overview

BUSINESS 112 builds on the knowledge gained in BUSINESS 111 by asking students to consider the process of managing sustainable business growth. This is an interdisciplinary course integrating topics from Management, Marketing, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, International Business, Commercial Law and Operations Management. Throughout this course, you will develop an understanding of how to manage people, processes and resources for the benefit of business and society. You will focus on innovation and entrepreneurship in relation to small and medium-sized enterprises. Then you will consider the decisions and trade-offs involved in growing a business, managing customer relationships, and competing in international markets. You will also explore strategies to enhance productivity, ensure sustainability, and how legal tools can be used to protect value.

The BUSINESS 112 approach to learning is designed on the principles of both active classrooms and team learning. This approach emphasises both individual and team capabilities. The course also has an online component called Workshop Preparation that guides students to complete tasks in preparation for their weekly workshops.

Course Requirements

Prerequisite: BUSINESS 101 or 111 Restriction: BUSINESS 102, 113, MGMT 101

Capabilities Developed in this Course

Capability 3: Knowledge and Practice
Capability 4: Critical Thinking
Capability 5: Solution Seeking
Capability 6: Communication
Capability 7: Collaboration
Capability 8: Ethics and Professionalism
Graduate Profile: Bachelor of Commerce

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this course, students will be able to:
  1. Integrate knowledge across disciplines to describe the process of growing a small and medium-sized enterprise to international success. (Capability 3.1 and 3.2)
  2. Recommend well-reasoned solutions to common business problems using appropriate theoretical frameworks. (Capability 4.1, 4.2, 5.1 and 5.2)
  3. Apply essential conventions of academic writing and integrity to academic and business writing, using APA guidelines (Capability 6.2)
  4. Apply teamwork skills and strategies to produce a group video presentation and reflect on the teamwork process. (Capability 6.1 and 7.1)
  5. Apply ethical principles to business scenarios involving ethical dilemmas and discuss the legal, social and environmental implications. (Capability 8.1)

Assessments

Assessment Type Percentage Classification
Quizzes 10% Individual Coursework
Written Assignment 20% Individual Coursework
Team Assessment 20% Group Coursework
Final Exam 50% Individual Examination
Assessment Type Learning Outcome Addressed
1 2 3 4 5
Quizzes
Written Assignment
Team Assessment
Final Exam

Workload Expectations

This course is a standard 15 point course and students are expected to spend 10 hours per week involved in each 15 point course that they are enrolled in.

For this course, students can expect to spend: 

• Up to 3-4 hours each week on online Workshop Preparation.

• 2 hours in Weekly Workshops.

• For those who are invited or chosen to attend academic skills tutorials, up to 2 hours will be spent each week attending those tutorials.

• The remaining time, on average about 2-4 hours for a typical student, will be used for individual study e.g. consolidating notes, preparing for assignments, etc.

Delivery Mode

Campus Experience

Attendance is expected at scheduled activities including Workshops to complete components of the course.

There are no lectures for this course, but weekly Workshop set-up materials will be available as recordings. Other learning activities including webinars will be available as recordings.

The course will include live online events including assignment preparation webinars.

Exam timetables are normally published online during the mid-semester break of the relevant semester. At that point, you will also learn the mode for each of your exams, e.g., if it will be a remote/online exam, or an on-campus exam.

The activities for the course are scheduled as a standard weekly timetable.

Learning Resources

Course materials are made available in a learning and collaboration tool called Canvas which also includes reading lists and lecture recordings (where available).

Please remember that the recording of any class on a personal device requires the permission of the instructor.

Using the University’s learning management system, Canvas, students can log into the course site for BUSINESS
112. Students will be able to access all official course information and course policies from there, follow their week-by-week Workshop Preparation tasks, and link to the Piazza online platform that we use for course communication.
The Workshop Preparation learning resources accessible online each week through Canvas, will include readings, video clips, practice quizzes and an online weekly quiz that counts towards the final grade. There is no assigned textbook for this course.

Student Feedback

At the end of every semester students will be invited to give feedback on the course and teaching through a tool called SET or Qualtrics. The lecturers and course co-ordinators will consider all feedback and respond with summaries and actions.

Your feedback helps teachers to improve the course and its delivery for future students.

Class Representatives in each class can take feedback to the department and faculty staff-student consultative committees.

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Other Information

Each week students will attend a Weekly Workshop that lasts for two hours. This takes place in a specially designed team learning classroom.

A team of workshop facilitators is involved in BUSINESS 112. Two facilitators will be managing each stream of approximately 100 students. Students will be introduced to their facilitators during the first weekly workshop. Those two facilitators will then be your first and primary contact point for course support throughout the semester. Each of your facilitators will hold office hours each week for students in your particular stream so that you can go to them with questions or concerns.

Academic Integrity

The University of Auckland will not tolerate cheating, or assisting others to cheat, and views cheating in coursework as a serious academic offence. The work that a student submits for grading must be the student's own work, reflecting their learning. Where work from other sources is used, it must be properly acknowledged and referenced. This requirement also applies to sources on the internet. A student's assessed work may be reviewed for potential plagiarism or other forms of academic misconduct, using computerised detection mechanisms.

Class Representatives

Class representatives are students tasked with representing student issues to departments, faculties, and the wider university. If you have a complaint about this course, please contact your class rep who will know how to raise it in the right channels. See your departmental noticeboard for contact details for your class reps.

Inclusive Learning

All students are asked to discuss any impairment related requirements privately, face to face and/or in written form with the course coordinator, lecturer or tutor.

Student Disability Services also provides support for students with a wide range of impairments, both visible and invisible, to succeed and excel at the University. For more information and contact details, please visit the Student Disability Services’ website http://disability.auckland.ac.nz

Special Circumstances

If your ability to complete assessed coursework is affected by illness or other personal circumstances outside of your control, contact a member of teaching staff as soon as possible before the assessment is due.

If your personal circumstances significantly affect your performance, or preparation, for an exam or eligible written test, refer to the University’s aegrotat or compassionate consideration page https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/students/academic-information/exams-and-final-results/during-exams/aegrotat-and-compassionate-consideration.html.

This should be done as soon as possible and no later than seven days after the affected test or exam date.

Learning Continuity

In the event of an unexpected disruption, we undertake to maintain the continuity and standard of teaching and learning in all your courses throughout the year. If there are unexpected disruptions the University has contingency plans to ensure that access to your course continues and course assessment continues to meet the principles of the University’s assessment policy. Some adjustments may need to be made in emergencies. You will be kept fully informed by your course co-ordinator/director, and if disruption occurs you should refer to the university website for information about how to proceed.

Student Charter and Responsibilities

The Student Charter assumes and acknowledges that students are active participants in the learning process and that they have responsibilities to the institution and the international community of scholars. The University expects that students will act at all times in a way that demonstrates respect for the rights of other students and staff so that the learning environment is both safe and productive. For further information visit Student Charter https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/students/forms-policies-and-guidelines/student-policies-and-guidelines/student-charter.html.

Disclaimer

Elements of this outline may be subject to change. The latest information about the course will be available for enrolled students in Canvas.

In this course students may be asked to submit coursework assessments digitally. The University reserves the right to conduct scheduled tests and examinations for this course online or through the use of computers or other electronic devices. Where tests or examinations are conducted online remote invigilation arrangements may be used. In exceptional circumstances changes to elements of this course may be necessary at short notice. Students enrolled in this course will be informed of any such changes and the reasons for them, as soon as possible, through Canvas.

Published on 02/11/2023 09:08 a.m.