Being bossy does not make you a good manager; it won’t necessarily even make you a manager! So what does being a manager entail? ‘Management’ refers to the process of employing resources to achieve customer needs, that is administering activities and actions that meet particular goals. Traditionally, the study of management was concerned with the four functions of planning, organising, directing and controlling. Although these functions are vital for the well-being of organisations, contemporary workplaces are highly dynamic and they bring a new set of challenges to management.
Studying management at Murdoch will allow you the opportunity to learn about traditional and contemporary issues effecting management. This study covers a wide range of relevant issues, theories and perspectives to better prepare you for the complexities and responsibilities of managerial life in the twenty-first century.
What can you do with a Management degree?
As a Murdoch Management graduate there are a range of opportunities you may choose to pursue, especially if you choose to take a double major with another Commerce area. Depending on which skill combinations or specialisations you have, your Murdoch degree may lead you to work or study opportunities in a number of areas.
The following are just some professions you could consider: Convention Services Manager; Administrative Service Manager; Public Relations Manager; Sales Manager; Engineering and Natural Science Manager; Management Consultant; Training and Development Manager; General Manager; Financial Manager.
Our entry requirements tool will help you find the most appropriate and quickest pathways to admission. The tool will take you through a couple of steps to help identify the best pathways for you based on your situation. Once you have chosen the most suitable pathway you will also be provided you with information on how to apply based on the criteria you are using for admission.
Domestic student applications:
All undergrad applications for Semester 1 2009 need to be submitted through TISC. If you would like to apply for this course you can now:
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International student applications:
If you would like to apply for this course you can now:
We don’t have prerequisite subjects for any of our courses as we are a strong promoter of a well rounded education. However, remember that you will also need to demonstrate competence in English, normally through passing either English or English Literature or by getting a sufficiently high score in ESL.
Course structure:
Year 1
Foundation Unit
All new first year students take a Foundation Unit. These are designed so you have some idea what’s going on, because, let’s face it, you’ve never been to uni before!
Core Units
You must take these units for a particular major to gain a specialisation in this area.
Principles of Commercial Law
Introduction to Accounting
Principles of Marketing
Principles of Management
General Electives
You must take these units to have enough units to graduate. General Electives give you the flexibility to learn from a variety of different areas.
Select three units offered by the University, subject to individual unit prerequisites.
Specified Electives
These are elective units that must be chosen from a specified list to give you further specialisation in your area of study.
Choose one from the following list:
International Management
Employee Relations
Human Resources Economics
Entrepreneurship and Innovation
General electives:
You must take these units to have enough units to graduate. General Electives give you the flexibility to learn from a variety of different areas.
Select three units offered by the University, subject to individual unit prerequisites.
To take a double major, students simply take the core units from another major in place of their general elective units. Further details on double majors are available in the Prospectus.
Accounting;
Business Law;
Economics;
Entrepreneurship & Innovation;
Finance;
Marketing Management;
Professional Accounting
What are my career options?
As a Murdoch Management graduate, your employment outlook is good, especially if you combine it with other disciplines. Depending on which skill combinations or specialisations you have, your Murdoch degree may lead you towards work and study opportunities in a number of areas. The following are some professions to consider, including extra majors and minors that will improve your prospects of achieving them.
Professions
What they do
Suggested double majors
Convention Services Manger
Convention Services Managers coordinate the activities of various departments in larger hotels to accommodate meetings, conventions, and special events. They meet with representatives of groups or organisations to plan the number of rooms to reserve, the desired configuration of the meeting space, and banquet services. During the meeting or event, they resolve unexpected problems and monitor activities to ensure that hotel operations conform to the expectations of the group.
Tourism
Marketing Management
Hospitality and Tourism Management
Public Relations
Office Administrative Support Supervisors and Managers / Administrative Service Managers
Office and Administrative Support Supervisors and Managers often act as liaisons between the administrative support staff and the professional, technical, and managerial staff. This may involve implementing new company policies or restructuring the workflow in their departments. They also must keep their superiors informed of their progress and any potential problems. Often, this communication takes the form of research projects and progress reports. Because supervisors and managers have access to information such as their department’s performance records, they may compile and present these data for use in planning or designing new policies.
Public Policy and Management
Commerce Majors
Public Relations Manager
Public Relations Managers supervise public relations specialists. These managers direct publicity programs to a targeted audience. They often specialise in a specific area, such as crisis management, or in a specific industry, such as health care. They use every available communication medium to maintain the support of the specific group upon whom their organisation’s success depends, such as consumers, stockholders, or the general public. For example, they may clarify or justify the firm’s point of view on health or environmental issues to community or special-interest groups. They observe social, economic, and political trends that might ultimately affect the firm, and make recommendations to enhance the firm’s image on the basis of those trends.
Journalism
Communication, Technology and Policy
Public Relations
Marketing Management
Sales Manager
Sales Managers direct the firm’s sales program. They assign sales territories, set goals, and establish training programs for the sales representatives. Sales managers advise the sales representatives on ways to improve their sales performance. Sales managers maintain contact with dealers and distributors. They analyse sales statistics gathered by their staffs to determine sales potential and inventory requirements and to monitor customers’ preferences.
Marketing Management
Economics
Accounting
Engineering and Natural Science Manager
Engineering and Natural Sciences Managers plan, coordinate, and direct research, design, and production activities. They may supervise engineers, scientists, and technicians, along with support personnel. These managers use their knowledge of engineering and natural sciences to oversee a variety of activities.
Firms providing management analysis range in size from a single practitioner to large international organisations employing thousands of consultants. Some analysts and consultants specialise in a specific industry, such as health care or telecommunications, while others specialise by type of business function, such as human resources, marketing, logistics, or information systems. In government, Management Analysts tend to specialise by type of agency. Their work varies with each client or employer, and from project to project. Some projects require a team of consultants, each specialising in one area. In other projects, consultants work independently with the organisation’s managers. In all cases, analysts and consultants collect, review, and analyse information in order to make recommendations to managers
Business Law
International Business
General and Operations Manager
General and Operations Managers plan, direct, or coordinate the operations of companies or public and private sector organisations. Their duties include formulating policies, managing daily operations, and planning the use of materials and human resources, but are too diverse and general in nature to be classified in any one area of management or administration, such as personnel, purchasing, or administrative services. In some organisations, the duties of general and operations managers may overlap the duties of chief executive officers.
Marketing Management
Human Resource Management
Training and Development Manger
Training and Development Managers and Specialists conduct and supervise training and development programs for employees. Increasingly, management recognises that training offers a way of developing skills, enhancing productivity and quality of work, and building worker loyalty to the firm, and most importantly, increasing individual and organisational performance to achieve business results.
Management
Human Resource Management
Community Development
Technical Manager
Technical Development Managers manage the full lifecycle of a development project. This includes being responsible for the end-to-end management of the project in the areas of budgeting, costing, planning, researching, designing and coordinating as well as providing technical expertise the project team with analysis, programming, testing and quality control, through to the implementation and post implementation review.
Business Informatics
Financial Manager
Financial Managers direct bank branches and departments, resolve customers’ problems, ensure that standards of service are maintained, and administer the institutions’ operations and investments.
Finance
Banking
Administrative Services Managers
Administrative Services Managers perform a broad range of duties in virtually every sector of the economy. They coordinate and direct support services to organisations as diverse as insurance companies, computer manufacturers, and government offices. These workers manage the many services that allow organisations to operate efficiently, such as secretarial and reception, administration, payroll, conference planning and travel, information and data processing, mail, materials scheduling and distribution, printing and reproduction, records management, telecommunications management, security, parking, and personal property procurement, supply, and disposal.
