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Topics include: Training Guarantee Act Legislation,
compliance with legislation, book-keeping, computer
applications, The National Training Board, competency
standards, organizational HRD functions, theory of
organizational behaviour, budgeting, resource administration,
professional development.
Textbooks
Material in this course is based on Davies, A,, Stock, J., Macleod, J.,
Williams, C. and Cross, M. The Management of Training. Carnforth,
England, Parthenon Publishing, 1987, but has been adapted to
Australian conditions by course lecturers
Pepper, A.D. Managing the Training and Development Function. 2nd
edn, Aldershot, Hants, Brookfield, Cower, 1992
~~920 Managing the Growing Business
No. of hours: fifty-six hours
A subject in the Master of Enterprise Innovation.
Subject aims and description
The focus of study in this subject is the growth pattern or
business cycle that seems to characterise small businesses,
both as independent entities or as part of a corporation, in
their development. The principles and theories of
organisational behaviour are introduced and their relevance
to management of the growing business is examined. A
model of business growth is explored and the means by
which even large companies can maintain their growth and
impetus are discussed. Case studies (many Australian) which
illustrate the preservation and perseverance of growth stages
are examined.
Textbooks
Hindle, K.G. How to Use Organisational Behaviouc Melbourne,
Learnfast Press, 1991
Kao, J.J. The Entrepreneurial Organization. London, Prentice Hall
International, 1991
References
Anderson, R.L. et al. Managing Growing Firms. Englewood Cliffs,
Prent~ce Hall, 1987
Davie, R.S. and Stamrn, W.J. Australian Case Studies. Hawthorn, Vic..
Swinburne Press, 1990
Drucker, F! lnnovation & Entrepreneurship: Practice & Principles.
London, Heinemann, 1985
~~923 Growth Venture Evaluation
No. of hours: fifty-six hours
A subject in the Master of Enterprise Innovation.
Subject aims and description
This is a case and research based course which provides
students with the ability to apply the skills acquired in EF811
to analysis and decision making in vital areas of financing and
evaluating entrepreneurial ventures characterised by the
stresses of high growth rates. Topics include:
evaluating opportunities: business plans; franchising;
seeking, assessing and acquiring resources: searching for
financial resources, valuing existing business; leveraging
buyout; legal forms of organisation; budding, partners;
securities, law and private financing; share market
options; venture capital;
managing and harvesting theventure: initial public
offering; partner-investor relations; takeovers:
bankruptcy.
Textbook
Stevenson, H.H. Roberts, M.J. and Grousbeck, H.I. New Business
Ventures and The Entrepreneuc 3rd edn, Hornewood, Ill., Irwin, 1989
Reference
Davie, R.S. and Stamrn, W.J. Australian Case Studies. 1990
Golis, C.C. Enterprise and Venture Capital: A Business Builders' and
Investors' Handbook. 2nd edn, St Leonards. N.S.W., Allen & Unwin,
1993
~~924 Advanced Business Plan
No. of hours per week: fifty-six hours over two
semesters
A subject in the Master of Enterprise Innovation.
Subject aims and description
This subject requires students, in supervised teams, to write
their second business plan. They draw on the experience of
their first effort in EF814 and the growing sophistication in
entrepreneurial management acquired in both second year
Masters subjects. They produce a business plan of a calibre
high enough to meet the standards of an investment analyst
operating in an internationally established venture capital
company.
~~931 Entrepreneurship in Corporations
No. of hours per week: fifty-six hours
A subject in the Master of Enterprise Innovation.
Subject aims and description
This subject aims to provide the student with the ability to:
identify the strategy concept and organisation concept of
corporation; recognise the relevance of these concepts to the
contexts of entrepreneurship, maturity, diversification,
innovation and professionalism; recoqnise how
entre~reneurial'mana~ement differs &om 'professional'
manaaement; understand the imaortance of culture in an
organgation and its effect on ven'ture opportunities; design
new ventures to optimise the odds for success in a corporate
framework.
Textbooks
Mintzberg, H. and Quinn, J.B. Strategy Process: Concepts, Contrasts,
Cases. 2nd edn, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice Hall, 1991
Porter, M. The Competitive Advantage of Nations. New York, Fress
Press, 1990
EF933
Integrated lnnovation
Management
No. of hours per week: fifty-six hours
A subject in the Master of Enterprise Innovation.
Subject aims and description
This subject builds on previous subjects covering the
principles of the innovation process, marketing, accounting
and leadership; the forces and ground rules that operate in
large organisations that seek to innovate and the various
analytic tools that need to be used in business in general and
innovation in particular.
It explores the holistic application of these principles to reallife
challenges, particularly in the early stages of the
innovation process, to better equip students to: