School: Business and Law

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  • Unit Title

    Marketing for Leaders
  • Unit Code

    MBA6011
  • Year

    2026
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    3
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    Y
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Deborah IEVERS

Description

Understanding and applying marketing concepts are essential for all business leaders. In this unit, you will learn how marketing can foster long-term relationships with customers by creating, delivering, communicating, and capturing value in a targeted manner. Emphasis will be placed on viewing marketing as an essential strategic tool that aids key decision-makers in the business. The unit will use a combination of research and case study approaches to introduce you to the principles and strategic concepts in marketing. The overall aim of the unit is to develop critical marketing skills and perspectives essential to the success of all business leaders in any organisation.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

This unit will be offered fully online in an accelerated self-study mode over six weeks.

Equivalent Rule

Equivalent to FBL5020.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Critique marketing's role in modern organisations.
  2. Appraise the marketing concepts that business leaders can utilise to achieve a competitive advantage.
  3. Explain how businesses provide compelling value propositions to customers and develop long-term relationships with the customers.
  4. Propose solutions to authentic marketing problems using critical thinking skills and appropriate research techniques.
  5. Develop a marketing plan aligned with the overall business objectives of the organisation.

Unit Content

  1. Understanding marketing.
  2. Marketing definitions and core concepts.
  3. Understanding Industry 4.0 and marketing convergence.
  4. Buyer behaviour and the decision-making process.
  5. Marketing research.
  6. Strategic Planning.
  7. Crafting a marketing plan.
  8. Innovations in marketing and new product development.
  9. Offering and communicating value.
  10. Branding and brand management.
  11. Marketing analytics.

Learning Experience

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

Additional Learning Experience Information

This unit will be offered fully online in an accelerated self-study mode over six weeks. Students will navigate resources, videos, academic and non-academic readings in order to engage with, and complete, weekly learning activities and assessments and will have access to a learning facilitator, who can respond to their queries, and provide tailored feedback on tasks. This unit uses principles associated with authentic learning to introduce students to realistic business situations that require analysis using relevant concepts and skills. Assessments will encourage the application of theory to real world examples.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
Case StudyCase study analysis - written10%
ProjectFeasibility Analysis - written50%
ProjectMarketing Plan video presentation and written reflection40%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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