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Management

Management is the process of planning, organising, leading and controlling the efforts of organisational members and using resources inside and outside the organisation to achieve set objectives. A Management major draws on subjects from a number of disciplines in the Business School and develops a sound understanding of managing the internal processes of organisations and the relationship between organisations and their environments.

Requirements for a major in Management

For the award of a major in Management, students complete:

1. At least one junior unit of study (six credit points) from the University of Sydney Business School.#

# The junior unit selected may be a core unit or an optional junior unit which may be a prerequisite for an elective option under this major.

2. Six senior units of study (36 credit points), comprising:

(i) three compulsory senior units of study (18 credit points), as follows:

  • WORK2201 Foundations of Management
  • WORK2210 Strategic Management
  • WORK2218 Managing Organisational Behaviour.

(ii) a minimum of three senior elective units of study (18 credit points) selected from the following options:

Note: Some of these senior elective options will require the completion of additional prerequisites outside of those units of study listed for this major.

  • BUSS2100 Business Placement A (Internship) #
  • IBUS2102 Cross-Cultural Management
  • IBUS3107 Business Negotiations
  • QBUS2350 Project Planning and Management
  • WORK2209 Managing Organisational Change
  • WORK2211 Human Resource Strategies
  • WORK2217 International Human Resource Management
  • WORK2219 Managing Organisational Sustainability
  • WORK2221 Organisational Communication *
  • WORK2222 Leadership in Organisations
  • WORK2227 Regulation at Work
  • WORK3922 Oranisational Research Methods.

# Students must seek approval from the Discipline of Work and Organisational Studies to include this unit as an elective for their major.

* Not offered for 2014.

Please check the Business School unit of study tables in the Units of study section for details of the unit prerequisites, corequisites and other requirements.