Cradle Coast
February Intake - this unit starts 8/02/2021 and ends 7/03/2021
July Intake - this unit starts 12/07/2021 and ends 15/08/2021
Introduction
This unit explores business strategy, management, and leadership concepts in the context of managing a horticultural business. You will examine approaches to developing a growth plan for your business while also acquiring personal skills that will allow you to grow alongside it. You will do this by learning central concepts needed to holistically manage the human, physical and financial resources of your business, including those needed to analyse your businesses current position, those needed to develop and implement a plan for growth, and tools useful for making effective decisions consistent with the business’ risk profile.
The unit’s content will provide an overview of your industry and introduce foundational concepts related to:
1. Approaches to strategy, purpose, and planning for your personal and business growth (or consolidation).
2. Assessment and analysis of your businesses current profile and position.
3. Personal and business risk profiles.
4. Decision making tools.
In this Unit we will introduce the course structure and explain how the discipline content and associated assessment tasks integrate to enable you to compile an holistic personal and business plan, which is the final assessment and capstone experience of the course.
In conjunction with the discipline theory, this unit fosters learning through practice and its application to specific business settings. The content of this unit and other units undertaken in this course will support the development of a personal and business portfolio.
Summary 2021
| Unit name | Horticultural Business Management |
|---|---|
| Unit code | KLA501 |
| Credit points | 12.5 |
| Faculty/School | College of Sciences and Engineering Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture |
| Discipline | Agriculture and Food Systems |
| Coordinator | Mark Boersma |
| Available as student elective? | No |
| Breadth Unit? | No |
Availability
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Learning Outcomes
1 | Apply business analytical tools to establish a horticultural business profile |
2 | Evaluate a horticultural business proposition using personal and business risk profiles and decision tools. |
3 | Select a business strategy approach through comparing and contrasting a range of strategy formats, suitable to a horticultural business |
Fees
Requisites
Prerequisites
Teaching
| Teaching Pattern | Online delivery |
|---|---|
| Assessment | AT1 - 1200 word Assignment (30%) AT2 - 2 page Decision Tree Assignment (30%) AT3 - 2000 word Assignment (40%) |
| Timetable | View the lecture timetable | View the full unit timetable |
Textbooks
| Required | None |
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