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Business Administration

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BUS 424 Issues in Business Practice
1 Term; 3 Credits

This course aims to provide students with a basic understanding on contemporary issues
in business practice with a specific focus on the Asia Pacific region. The course will offer
students opportunities to apply their knowledge acquired from their previous studies in the
business administration programme to analysing current issues in business practice. This final
year course is expected to equip students with the necessary analytical tools in handling
challenges in the business world when they start working.

BUS 440 Industrial Relations and Labour Law
1 Term; 3 Credits

This course is designed to give students a general introduction to various aspects of
industrial relations. Based on the foundation laid down in the course Human Resource
Management, students are provided with basic concepts of labour relations systems, labour
laws of Hong Kong, trade union philosophy and structures, collective bargaining, the past and
present developments in labour-management relationships and disputes between labour and
employers, security and compensation.

BUS 450 Honours Project
1 Term; 3 Credits

The course aims to provide students with an opportunity to undertake and develop an
independent research project in a business or management context.

Upon completion of this course, students should be able to:
a) identify research topics and design a research project independently;
b) understand the techniques of collecting, organizing and analysing data and information;
c) acquire knowledge on and apply statistical techniques to interpreting research results

and form a conclusion on the findings; and
d) communicate concisely and effectively the research findings in a report.

BUS 460 Business Strategy
1 Term; 3 Credits

This course is designed to provide students with knowledge and skills on how firms
formulate, implement and evaluate business strategies. Strategic management concepts,
theories, models and techniques are discussed in this course. Students may use all their
knowledge in business studies, together with the strategic management techniques learned
from this course, to chart future strategic decisions of organizations at different levels of
management.

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