Example courses

• Entrepreneurship in Practice

  The course will focus on how to help people and communities generate value by seizing opportunities to solve commercial, social, environmental, or civic problems. It provides an introduction to the concepts and capabilities necessary to develop new ideas into products and services and will emphasise business model development, validation processes and techniques, and design and execution. During the course, student learning is reinforced by students testing out their own new venture ideas.

• Ethical Leadership

  An introduction to the theories and practices of ethical leadership with a focus on organisations. Drawing on New Zealand case studies, students will learn about the meaning and importance of ethical leadership for organisations, recognise the role of ethics in organisational decision-making and analyse the actions of leaders from an ethical perspective. Recognised leaders in NZ will share insights about ethical leadership in practice.

• Fundamentals of International Business

  This introduction to international business covers the important issues that firms face in the global business environment, and the basic strategies that they can adopt to sustain and grow their international operations.

• International Relations: Wealth and World Affairs / Hononga whenua: Te Rawa me ngā Take o te Ao

  This course looks at the global, international and domestic politics of the world economy. It looks at the ways in which economic processes shape politics and the ways in which political processes shape economics. We look at international trade, finance and production (multi-national corporations) and at the regional and international institutions that regulate the global economy. We also look at some of the interactions between international and domestic politics and explore the ways in which the world economy shapes peoples' everyday lives. No technical knowledge of economics is required for this course and the course involves no equations, graphs or large numbers. This course may also be able to be taken towards a major in POLS. See major requirements for details.

• Managing and Communicating Across Cultures

  Working with people from diverse cultural backgrounds is a common occurrence in local and international organisations. Students will explore how cultural values influence workplace behaviours of individuals in different nations. The course focuses on managing people and diverse teams, negotiating, and communicating effectively across cultures.

• Managing People in Global Markets

  A critical examination of the management of people across nationally distinct employment and cultural contexts. This course provides a critical understanding of developments in global labour markets and the strategic challenges organisations face in managing global workforces.