Course Title: International Management Project B (Part A)

Part A: Course Overview

Course ID: 032876

Course Title: International Management Project B (Part A)

Credit Points: 3

Course Code	Campus	Career	School	Learning Mode	Teaching Period(s)
BUSM2357A	City Campus	Postgraduate	660H Grad School of Business	Face-to-Face

Course Coordinator: Clive Morley

Course Coordinator Phone: +61 3 9925 5765

Course Coordinator Email: clive@rmit.edu.au

Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

International Management Project A.

Course Description

International Management Project B is the continuation of International Management Project A, and involves a cross-national team of MBA(IM) students undertaking a research project in international management.

Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development

In this course students learn to plan and conduct a major project, with members from different countries.

The capacity to work together to an agreed goal whilst separated by distance and nationalities is developed.

The capability to do original research, with the associated skills and capabilities development, is practised.

1) To continue IMPA research by implementing empirical work with appropriate analysis and conclusions.

2) To document the research findings in the form of a paper of publishable quality.

3) To encourage students to disseminate the research findings as an article in a recognised journal or as a paper at a conference or seminar.

4) To learn about the process of working with a team of fellow researchers from different countries over a two-year period.

The academic objective is to require students to prepare a paper of high quality, the longer-term professional objective is to encourage and enable students to continue to pursue learning on an individual and collaborative basis throughout their professional careers.

Overview of Learning Activities

The learning task is to work in the established teams to carry out and complete the research begun in International Management Project A.

IMPB requires students to continue their membership of the team that was formed in IMPA. The team has the responsibility for continuing the work done in IMPA. Specifically, the team has to refine and further develop the work done in IMPA, and produce a 5000 word Final Report of publishable quality.

Overview of Learning Resources

As detailed in IMP Part A.

Overview of Assessment

Each team will be required to submit a 5000 word Final Report or article of publishable quality. The report should provide a comprehensive description and analysis of the researched topic. The naming sequence will be in surname-alphabetical order. A reviewer will assess the article and a grade will be recorded. The Course Coordinator or their nominee will be the reviewer. The grade will be the same for all members of the team.