Overview

The world of entrepreneurship is fraught with difficult decisions and responsibilities. Navigating it ethically requires information, strategic thinking, and self-awareness. This unit will equip future business leaders to create a positive impact through their attitudes and decision-making. It will cover business models, organisational culture, governance, intellectual property, and sustainability. Students will learn to tackle problems and make good choices with limited information. They will discover how to build resilience and critical thinking as they adopt an entrepreneurial mindset. Exploring the ideas of failure, self-understanding, and self-management will help to prepare them cognitively and emotionally for their future roles.

Requisites

Teaching periods
Location
Start and end dates
Last self-enrolment date
Census date
Last withdraw without fail date
Results released date
Term 4
Location
Hawthorn
Start and end dates
16-September-2024
27-October-2024
Last self-enrolment date
16-September-2024
Census date
04-October-2024
Last withdraw without fail date
11-October-2024
Results released date
03-December-2024
Semester 1
Location
Hawthorn
Start and end dates
03-March-2025
01-June-2025
Last self-enrolment date
16-March-2025
Census date
31-March-2025
Last withdraw without fail date
24-April-2025
Results released date
08-July-2025
Semester 2
Location
Hawthorn
Start and end dates
04-August-2025
02-November-2025
Last self-enrolment date
17-August-2025
Census date
31-August-2025
Last withdraw without fail date
19-September-2025
Results released date
09-December-2025

Learning outcomes

Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:

  • Apply coherent and advanced knowledge of building an entrepreneurial mindset to experiment with business and organisation design
  • Investigate opportunities for applying an entrepreneurial mindset
  • Critically reflect on and evaluate the challenges of entrepreneurship including leadership practices, styles and strategies in a for profit and social start-ups
  • Critically reflect on and evaluate the challenges of entrepreneurship including leadership practices, styles and strategies in a for profit and social start-ups
  • Critically reflect on failure and building entrepreneurial resilience

Teaching methods

All applicable locations

Type Hours per week Number of weeks Total (number of hours)

On Campus

Class

4 6 weeks 24

Online

Learning Activities

1.33 6  weeks 8

Unspecified Learning Activities 

Various

19.67 6  weeks 118
Total     150

Assessment

Type Task Weighting ULOs
Portfolio Individual Pass/Fail 1,2,3
Project Report Group Pass/Fail 3,4,5

Content

  • Innovator's Playbook: Decoding the DNA of Entrepreneurial Thinking
  • The Creative Crucible: Fusing Theory with Entrepreneurial Action
  • Mindset Metamorphosis: Cultivating a Culture of Innovation
  • Commanders of Change: Mastering Leadership Styles in the Entrepreneurial Arena
  • Moral Compass in Motion: Navigating the Ethical Mazes of Entrepreneurship
  • Social Entrepreneurship: Stakeholder Engagement and Social Impact
  • Opportunity Architects: Building Bridges from Ideas to Execution
  • Phoenix Rising: The Art of Turning Failure into Fuel
  • Navigating the Entrepreneurial Storm: Strategies for Resilient Leadership
  • Strategic Orchestration: Conducting the Symphony of Decision-Making
  • The Reflective Entrepreneur: Harnessing Insight for Impact

Study resources

Reading materials

A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.