General information about this course can be found in the CQU Handbook.

• Complying with academic and non-academic misconduct policies and procedures such as CQUniversity’s Student Charter, Student Misconduct Policy and Student Behavioural Misconduct Procedures and Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).
• Demonstrating respect for cultural and professional diversity as well as individual differences and capacities in business administration.
• Demonstrating honesty and integrity in academic and professional practice.

• Engaging with colleagues and academic and professional staff in a manner that demonstrates respect and integrity.
• Maintaining behavioural stability through successfully distinguishing your own personal behaviours, experiences and emotions from others and situations in a professional setting.
• Being reflective with personal behaviours appropriate to professional performance and being positive and receptive to processing constructive supervisor/marker/peer feedback or criticism.

• Knowing, understanding and complying with the laws of the Sovereign State in which you reside, work and/or study.
• Complying with the policies and practices of businesses or organisations in which you may be placed.
• Complying with university and workplace policy with the use of social media, online discussion forums, email and other electronic forms of communication.

• Using a computer with sufficient computer skills to engage in online learning, reading, initiating and responding to emails and other forms of electronic communication, and completing relevant assessments for the course. This includes being able to regularly access the Internet for coursework and research.
• Performing a wide range of advanced written communication skills that address critical business problems and solutions. These include (but are not limited to) constructing logical and succinct academic essays, applied projects, business reports or strategic plans that demonstrate substantive research while using correct CQU referencing.
• Performing a wide range of advanced verbal, non-verbal and ICT communication skills that address critical business problems and solutions. These include (but are not limited to) being able to deliver an enhanced message (in English) for maximum effectiveness, while utilising a variety of technologies or media; the ability to deliver succinct yet effective communication; the ability to deliver effective communication that results in impact and/or influence; the ability to design and deliver effective verbal presentations, in clear English, that utilises a variety of technologies or visual media, as well as appropriate business management concepts and language.
• Utilising a variety of technologies and/or visual media as well as speaking in front of an audience with an appropriate middle or senior management/leadership voice, manner, style and presence that addresses the required outcomes as well as the needs of the audience.
• Developing the skills of reflective practice to increase self-awareness with personal delivery of advanced communication skills, including being able to determine personal developmental needs with advanced communication deficiencies.
• Using appropriate facial expressions, eye contact, body movements and gestures, being mindful of personal space, time boundaries, and cultural sensitivities.

• Conceptualising and applying, in academic assessment items, the knowledge, skills, processes, tools and techniques of the course to real-world examples and contexts of management or discipline-specific issues.
• Applying theoretical knowledge, research evidence, policies and procedures in management and/or cognate discipline practice.
• Constructing written text proficiently, in English, using appropriate vocabulary, correct grammar and conventions of speech, including being able to paraphrase, summarise and reference in accordance with appropriate academic and professional conventions.

• Being able to utilise a range of communication strategies including effective use of audio visuals to convey meaning, messages, recommendations, etc., to a variety of audiences and stakeholders.

• Understanding, acquiring and demonstrating the components of emotional intelligence for effective working relationships and outcomes.
• Being able to interact and demonstrate tact when dealing with stakeholders, including (but not limited to) employees, management/leadership peers, customers, and suppliers.
• Relating positively and effectively to a wide variety of business and community stakeholders.

• Being able to reflect on your own levels of competence and seek feedback from colleagues and use reflective frameworks to increase your level of self-awareness.
• Being able to reflect on your own levels of competence and willingly seek feedback from colleagues.

• Being able to exercise self-direction in learning and research.
• Demonstrating a commitment to action learning by attending and actively participating in the weekly student support sessions.
• Developing effective time management skills to enable sustained learning and research activities.

• Engaging in personal reflection as a way of increasing self-awareness regarding how individuals interact and affect others.
• Creating cultural competence, sensitivity and willingness to work with a vast array of people both in Australia and abroad.
• Demonstrating the skills of collaborating with fellow students and colleagues, modifying and reflecting on practice during a project, or in response to supervisor feedback.
• Relating positively and effectively to a wide variety of business and community stakeholders.
• Understanding, acquiring and demonstrating the components of emotional intelligence for effective working relationships and outcomes.
• Combining appropriate business deliberations with the inclusion of the relevant interpersonal factors of the people connected in those processes.
• Being consultative and collaborative in creating and maintaining effective working relationships and outcomes.
• Recognising others as sentient human beings with rights that must not be violated.
• Recognising others in the workplace as ends in themselves and never exclusively as means to an end.

• Being able to utilise basic computer skills and abilities that include Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel.