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B300 – Business Behavior in a Changing World
This course is designed to develop an understanding and knowledge of strategic organizational issues and how organizations respond to change in their environments. The course has three main teaching modules: decision-making, strategy and policy. Students look at how organizations make strategic decisions and consider rationality and routines, decision methods and decision processes. They analyze how organizations develop strategy, notions of core competence and strategic innovation. A range of policy and environmental concepts and cases that demonstrate the impact of the macro-environment on organizations are studied. Students are made aware of the boundaries of strategy in terms of relationships between strategies at the level of the firm, the industry, the nation, the region and globally. Three groups of related business skills are developed: study and presentation skills, IT and numeric skills, and computer conferencing for learning and debate. Course tutors are expected to participate. |