Strategic Management

MGT B815F

Course Guide

MGT B815F

Course Guide

Strategic Management

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Quota and Schedule

Course Coordinator:

Dr Thomas Kiu, BSc (Hons) (Swansea, UK); MSc (Durham, UK); PhD (Durham, UK); PGcert (Greenwich, UK)

Excluded Combinations

ACY B809F; MGT B815; MGT B820; MGT B820F; MGT B831C; MGT B831CF; MGT B831CW; MGT B881

Courses Not Allowed to be Taken Again

MGT B815

Aims

This course aims to enhance students' ability to comprehend management from a strategic perspective. It equips students with fundamental theoretical knowledge as well as the practical skills in strategy and management that practitioners need to make quality decisions for developing a sustainable competitive advantage for their organisations.

Contents

The course covers the following topics:

Introduction to strategy and strategic management
External environmental analysis
Internal environmental analysis
Competitive advantage and levels of strategy
Strategy in the global environment
Innovation and entrepreneurial strategies
Corporate governance issues: stakeholders, business ethics and corporate social responsibility
Strategic leadership
Organising and controlling
Managing strategic change

Contact hours

A total of 60 contact hours across one term.

Assessment

The continuous assessment portion of the course accounts for 40% of the total course score, which consists of written assignments (22.5%), one oral presentation (7.5%) and class participation (10%). The final examination accounts for the remaining 60% of the total course score. Students are required to submit written assignments via the Online Learning Environment (OLE).

Set book(s)

Hill, C W L, Jones, G R and Schilling, M A (2020) Strategic Management: An Integrated Approach, 13th edn, Boston: Cengage Learning.

Course Coordinator: Dr Hamid Khurshid, MBA (Harbin Institute of Technology); PhD (Lingnan U of HK)

Aims
This course aims to enhance students' ability to comprehend management from a strategic perspective. It equips students with fundamental theoretical knowledge as well as the practical skills in strategy and management that practitioners need to make quality decisions for developing a sustainable competitive advantage for their organisations.

Contents
The course covers the following topics:

Introduction to strategy and strategic management
External environmental analysis
Internal environmental analysis
Competitive advantage and levels of strategy
Strategy in the global environment
Innovation and entrepreneurial strategies
Corporate governance issues: stakeholders, business ethics and corporate social responsibility
Strategic leadership
Organising and controlling
Managing strategic change

Contact hours
A total of 60 contact hours across one term.

Assessment
The continuous assessment portion of the course accounts for 40% of the total course score, which consists of written assignments (22.5%), one oral presentation (7.5%) and class participation (10%). The final examination accounts for the remaining 60% of the total course score. Students are required to submit written assignments via the Online Learning Environment (OLE).

Set book(s)
Hill, C W L, Jones, G R and Schilling, M A (2020) Strategic Management: An Integrated Approach, 13th edn, Boston: Cengage Learning.