MG1702 - Marketing Management

Credit points:	03
Year:	2006
Student Contribution Band:	Band 2
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The subject focuses on the role of marketing within the overall business framework. The basic tools of marketing are introduced: identify the needs of the target markets, understanding the buying behaviour of the target markets, product positioning, targeting product, price, distribution and promotion to satisfy the needs and wants of the target market.

Learning Outcomes

• how to evaluate opportunities in changing environments;
• how to find target market opportunities with segmenting markets;
• how to obtain information for developing effective marketing strategies;
• to explain consumer buying behaviour and processes;
• to understand marketings role in society;
• to identify the elements of the marketing mix (4Ps) and discuss key decision areas for each element;
• to understand the marketing planning process and its fit with the overall strategic plan of the organisation.

Graduate Qualities

• The ability to define and to solve problems in at least one discipline area;
• The ability to think critically, to analyse and evaluate claims, evidence and arguments, and to reason and deploy evidence clearly and logically;
• The ability to find and access information using appropriate media and technologies;
• The ability to read complex and demanding texts accurately, critically and insightfully;
• The ability to generate, calculate, interpret and communicate numerical information in ways appropriate to a given discipline or discourse.

Inadmissible Subject Combinations:

MG2702

Availabilities
, , Study Period 2
Census Date 08-Sep-2006
Coordinator:	Janelle Rose
Contact hours:	26 hours 12 hours
Assessment:	(40%); (20%); (40%).
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Census Date 08-Sep-2006
Coordinator:	Janelle Rose
Lecturer:	Kylie Hoffensetz.
Contact hours:	26 hours 12 hours
Assessment:	(40%); (20%); (40%).
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Census Date 05-May-2006
Coordinator:	Janelle Rose
Contact hours:	26 hours 12 hours
Assessment:	(40%); (20%); (40%).
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Census Date 08-Sep-2006
Coordinator:	Janelle Rose
Contact hours:	26 hours 12 hours
Assessment:	(40%); (20%); (40%).
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Census Date 22-Dec-2006
Coordinator:	Janelle Rose
Contact hours:	26 hours 12 hours
Assessment:	(40%); (20%); (40%).
, , Study Period 1
Census Date 24-Mar-2006
Coordinator:	jc139651
Lecturer:	Kylie Hoffensetz.
Contact hours:	26 hours 12 hours
Assessment:	(40%); (20%); (40%).
, , Study Period 22
Census Date 08-Sep-2006
Coordinator:	Janelle Rose
Contact hours:	26 hours 12 hours
Assessment:	(40%); (20%); (40%).

Note: Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.