This Unit of Study is no longer offered by AIM Business School and has been superseded by Strategy, Governance and Sustainability.
This unit is available for these qualifications:
Unit Description
This capstone unit for the MBA program extends and enhances your ability to think and act as an executive leader. It investigates how to lead an organisation through the analysis, strategic positioning, concept application, and decision-making phases of corporate strategy that achieve organisational goals. You will undertake a series of self-insight tools to increase your self-awareness about your personality and predispositions and how it may affect your executive leadership effectiveness.
Prerequisites
To enter into this unit, students must first have completed:
- Business Decision-Making and Analysis
- Business Research Methods
- Economics for Managers
- Leading, Managing, and Developing People
- Managing, Developing, and Implementing Strategy
- Managing Financial Resources
- Managing Operational Improvement
- Marketing for Managers
Learning Outcomes
- Formulate, plan, monitor and evaluate corporate strategy and distinguish corporate strategy from business strategy utilising recent academic research and contemporary events.
- Critically examine and reflect on the necessary leadership behaviours and decision making skills required to be an effective executive leader, responsible for corporate strategy.
- Influence the construction of their organisation’s strategic plan from a strategic positioning point of view so that it takes account of both the external environment and internal factors.
- Articulate and evaluate a range of strategic choices to their organisation with respect to strategy design and execution.
- Interpret and transmit the crucial importance of corporate social responsibility, governance, risk and ethics in strategy formulation, development and execution.
- Demonstrate creativity and flexibility in the application of knowledge and skills to new situations, to resolve problems and to think rigorously and independently.
Graduate Attributes
AIM Business School has identified a set of attributes that positively impact graduates’ success in business as a manager and leader and these are taught, developed, and assessed to varying degrees in this unit. These Graduate Attributes are:
- Strives for intellectual rigour
- Understanding the changing global context
- Manages for success
- Demonstrates effective communication and interpersonal skills
- Develops mastery of business and management disciplines
- Strives to be a continuous adult learner
Assessment Tasks
The successful completion of Corporate Strategy and Responsibility relies on the submission of three assessments:
- Assessment Task 1: Current Strategic Issue Analysis Board Report (35%)
- Assessment Task 2: Strategic Issues and CEO Leadership Briefing Paper (50%)
- Assessment Task 3: Engagement and Participation (15%)
