Applications from Australian citizens and holders of permanent resident visas must be made via the Universities Admissions Centre (UAC).
International applicants must apply directly to the University of Western Sydney via UWS International.
Applicants who have undertaken studies overseas may have to provide proof of proficiency in English. Details of minimum English proficiency requirements and acceptable proof can be found on the Universities Admissions Centre website (UAC).
Overseas qualifications must be deemed by the Australian Education International - National Office of Overseas Skills Recognition (AEI-NOOSR) to be equivalent to Australian qualifications in order to be considered by UAC and UWS.
Qualification for this award requires the successful completion of 60 credit points.
The Diploma comprises six units, all of which are presented at the same academic level as The Sydney MBA.
Core Units
Marketing Management
Marketing Management is designed to provide an introduction to the key concepts, principles and practices that constitute the Marketing discipline. It will develop a focus on marketing as a business philosophy underpinning the activities of the firm.
Value Chain Management
This unit introduces students to the concept of the value chain and its management. The unit explores the strategic issues of the role of the value chain in developing, maintaining and growing a business. It will enable participants to understand what is required and the business models that will have to be adopted.
Managing People
This unit locates the management of human resources within its theoretical, philosophical, historical, regulatory, social and organisational contexts. An integrated model of strategic human resource management is developed whereby the strategic link between managing people and corporate planning is demonstrated. The unit also examines the ways in which the various HR processes are inter-related and introduces debate on the future directions of people management in the modern organisation.
Financial Management
This unit is a foundation course in financial management in the corporate context. It examines corporate financial decision-making by exploring sources of business finance and means of evaluating alternatives. The unit has a particular focus on financial risk management.
Contemporary Organisation Behaviour
Courses in organisational behaviour usually concentrate on the responses of organisational participants to the stimulus of organisational phenomena such as structure, technology and management processes. Such an approach has been heavily influenced by behaviourist and humanistic psychology and functionalist sociology, and suffers from the limitations of these approaches. Given the social formation of organisations, an interactionist approach is offered. The interactionist model holds that meaning lies both within society and within individuals and is inculcated in individuals through the processes of socialisation. The individual, however, is by no means passive and seeks to impose meaning on organisational phenomena. Group behaviour is explained in terms of shared provinces of meaning as individuals collectively confront their life situations. The implications of such interactions for organisations are explored.
Accounting Perspectives for Management
This unit focuses on the analytical uses of accounting information by managers. It emphasises the role of both financial and management accounting in measuring, processing and communicating information that is useful in making economic decisions.
