2050y / 2052y-H

Business Management

Full Year / 1 Credit / Grade 11

Prerequisites:

• Business Management: Successful completion of Grade 10 English and Social Studies

Description:

Business management is a rigorous, challenging and dynamic discipline. Business management explores business functions, management processes and decision-making in contemporary contexts of strategic uncertainty. It examines how business decisions are influenced by factors internal and external to an organization, and how these decisions impact stakeholders. Furthermore, business management investigates how individuals and groups interact within an organization, how they may be successfully managed and how they can ethically optimize the use of resources in a world with increasing scarcity and concern for sustainability.

The course allows students to develop their understanding of interdisciplinary concepts from a business management perspective, through the exploration of six concepts underpinning the subject: change, culture, ethics, globalization, innovation and strategy. Students learn to analyze, discuss and evaluate business activities at local, national and international levels. The course encourages the appreciation of ethical concerns and issues of corporate social responsibility, at both local and global levels. Moreover, the course encourages critical thinking and making ethically sound and well-informed decisions. It fosters an appreciation for the pace, nature and significance of change, in addition to strategic thinking and the undertaking of long term planning.

Students take this course for one year as a General Education-credited course, follow the same syllabus as IB Yr 1 students but take modified assessments (tests/exams) and be assessed on a modified non-IB grade scale. Students are encouraged this way to try to take IB credit and sit for the IB exams, if they wish so.

Assessment:

*All assessments will follow IBO guidelines. Students wishing to sit for the IB examination must follow the two-year course of study. All students will complete a year-long research project.