Turnitin

All text based assessments must be submitted through Turnitin as per instructions provided in the unit guide. It is the student’s responsibility to ensure that work is submitted correctly prior to the due date. No hard copies of assessments will be accepted and only Turnitin records will be taken as records of submission.

Multiple submissions may be possible in some units via Turnitin prior to the final due date and time of an assessment task and originality reports may be made available to students to view and check their work. All identified matching text will be reconsidered carefully. Students should note that the system will not immediately produce the similarity score on a second or subsequent submission - it approximately takes 24 hours for the report to be generated. This may be after the due date so students should plan any resubmissions carefully. Please refer to these instructions on how to submit your assignment through Turnitin and access similarity reports and feedback provided by teaching staff. Should you have questions about Turnitin or experience issues submitting through the system, you must inform your unit coordinator immediately. If the issue is technical in nature may also lodge OneHelp Ticket, refer to the IT help page.

It is the responsibility of the student to retain a copy of any work submitted. Students must produce these documents upon request. Copies should be retained until the end of the grade appeal period each term. In the event that a student is asked to produce another copy of work submitted and is unable to do so, they may be awarded zero (0) for that particular assessment task.

Classes   

• This unit includes thirteen three-hour weekly seminars (classes) as detailed in this unit guide.
• The timetable for classes can be found on the University web site at:  http://www.timetables.mq.edu.au/
• Class attendance for this unit is compulsory.
• Students are expected to get involved in class discussion and debate including in-class completion of simulations and case studies.

Required and Recommended Texts and/or Materials

Compulsory text:

Referenced books/journals

Primary Text (required reading as indicated on class schedule):

Johnson, G. Whittington, R. Scholes, K. Angwin, D. and Regner, P. 2014 Exploring Strategy: Text and Cases 10^th ed, Pearson

Book Chapters available on iLearn (required reading):

Hubbard, G. Rice, J. and Galvin, P. 2015 Strategic Management: Thinking, Analysis, Action 5^th ed, Pearson pp 4-19 only

McKee, A., Kemp, T. and Spence, G 2013 Management: A Focus on Leaders Pearson Chapter 10 “Teams and Team Building” only.

Journal Articles (required reading):

Ackerman, F. and Eden, C. 2011 “Strategic management of stakeholders: Theory and Practice”, Long Range Planning 44 pp179-196

Casal, C and Caspar, C. 2014 “Building a forward looking Board”, McKinsey Quarterly, Issue 2 pp119-126

Feser, C. Mayol, F. and Srinivasan, R. 2014 “Decoding leadership: What really matters?” McKinsey Quarterly, Issue 4 pp88-91

Freeman, R.E. 2010 “Managing for stakeholders: Trade-offs or value creation”, Journal of Business Ethics, 96 pp7-9

Higgins, J.M. 2005 “The Eight ‘S’s of successful strategy execution”, Journal of Change Management, 5 No. 1, March pp3-13

Kellerman, B. 2007 “What every leader needs to know about followers”, Harvard Business Review, December pp84-91

Kotter, J.P. 1995 “Leading Change: Why transformation efforts fail”, Harvard Business Review, March-April pp59-67 

Llopis, G. 2013 “Personal branding is a leadership requirement, not a self-promotion campaign”, Forbes April 8 viewed at http://www.forbes.com/sites/glennllopis/2013/04/08/personal-branding-is-a-leadership-requirement-not-a-self-promotion-campaign/#7a19691015c0

Optional reading (references used during the unit):

Cummings J.L. and Doh, J.P. 2000, “Identifying who matters: mapping key players in multiple environments”, California Management Review, 42, 2 pp83-103

Garratt, B 2010, The Fish Rots from the Head: Developing Effective Board Directors, Profile, London

Harrison, J.S., Bosse, D.A. and Phillips, R.A 2010, “Managing for stakeholders, stakeholder utility functions and competitive advantage”, Strategic Management Journal, 31 pp58-74

Kaplan, R. S. and Norton, D. P. 2008, The Execution Premium – Linking Strategy to Operations for Competitive Advantage, Harvard Business Press, Boston

Mintzberg, H. and Waters, J.A. 1985, “Of strategies, deliberate and emergent”, Strategic Management Journal, 6 pp257-272

Tricker, B 2012, Corporate Governance: Principles, Policies and Practices, 2^nd edn, Oxford University Press, Oxford

You must have read the relevant materials before coming to class and in completing the assessment tasks as well as undertaking your own further research. Direction will be provided by the lecturer on additional research materials.

Unit Web Page  

You are required to access a computer and the internet at various times in completing this unit, to download course material available on the learning management system (iLearn) and to complete assessment tasks. 

This unit also addresses global and sustainability issues as direct areas of study and as necessary implications arising from the materials, assessment and academic discussion and debate in classes/seminars. We promote sustainability by developing ability in students to research and locate information within accounting discipline. We aim to provide students with an opportunity to obtain skills which will benefit them throughout their career.

This unit also gives you opportunities to conduct your own research and gives you practice in applying research findings in your assessment tasks. Students will be required to use library resources to research beyond these materials in undertaking research necessary to complete their tasks. The unit encourages students to read journals of interest and publications in these journals have a reference list at the end of each article containing all references cited by the author. These provide some guidance to references that could be used to research particular issues.