Extension

No extensions will be granted. Students who are absent from the examination will be awarded a mark of ZERO, except for cases in which an application for Special Consideration is made and approved. If the application is approved, students are expected to complete the presentation on an individual basis.

Penalties

A mark of zero will be awarded to students who are absent from the assessment.

On successful completion you will be able to:

• Critically evaluate business performance using appropriate techniques and frameworks so that evidence-based-decisions are made when implementing new metrics and measures of business unit and individual performance.
• Critically assess the strengths and weaknesses of alternative performance analysis frameworks and metrics that have emerged in different cultures such as the prevalence of intangible asset monitoring and reporting in Scandinavia.
• Integrate ethical, social and environmental factors into the design of performance management systems, impact metrics and key performance indicators across a range of organisational activities.
• Critically assess how business performance measurement and management systems impact on the creation and delivery of sustainable value at various levels of an organisation.

Classes

This unit offers one 4 hour class per week. The timetable for classes can be found on the University web site at: http://www.timetables.mq.edu.au/

You MUST attend only the class in which you are enrolled. In the event that you have to attend an alternative class for a particular week you are required to notify your lecturer in advance of attending the alternate class.

Textbook

This unit has no textbook. Instead, there are selected readings for each class session. A full list of readings will be posted on iLearn several weeks prior to the start of the unit. It is anticipated that students will have read the assigned readings for each class session prior to the start of the session.

For those who have a particular interest in the balanced scorecard,  which is one of a number of methodologies covered in the unit and is commonly utilised in a variety of businesses, the seminal work is Kaplan, R. and Norton, D. (1996) The Balanced Scorecard: Translating Strategy into Action, Harvard Business Review Press.

For information on textbook prices and online ordering, please refer to the Co-Op Bookshop webpage at http://www.coop.com.au

Unit Web Page

Unit materials, suggested solutions, announcements and other relevant information are found on iLearn for the unit at: http://ilearn.mq.edu.au.

Students are expected to visit the unit webpage on a regular basis, and at a minimum at least one a week.

Teaching and Learning Activities

The last page of this assessment guide contains a list of the topics that will be covered in classes over the duration of the session. Also included are details of weekly readings, weekly homework questions and additional self-study questions.

Class structure

Each session will involve the equivalent of a tutorial segment, discussing assigned weekly homework questions from the previous week, where relevant. The session will then continue with a lecture covering the next topic. You are not required to have completed the weekly reading prior to attending the weekly lecture, however some students find reading prior to classes useful. ALL the content within the readings is examinable and you are expected to have completed the readings prior to attempting relevant assessment tasks