School: Business and Law

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Please note that there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for Semester 1 2023 Units. All assessment changes will be published by 20th February 2023. All students are reminded to check the handbook at the beginning of semester to ensure they have the correct outline.

  • Unit Title

    Business Events Management
  • Unit Code

    TSM3500
  • Year

    2023
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Eunjung KIM

Description

The emphasis of this unit is to provide students with a detailed and practical understanding of the business events sector (sometimes referred to as the 'Meetings Incentives Conventions and Exhibitions’ (MICE) industry). The unit will look at the sector from multiple perspectives including the origins of demand and the sources of supply, the opportunities for generating income and the activities that create expenses. The key role of marketing communications will also be examined in detail. The unit will be largely presented from the viewpoint of a business event manager. A categorisation of business events into meetings (including conferences and conventions), exhibitions (including trade shows, public shows and expositions) and incentives (encompassing incentive travel and corporate hospitality events) will be adopted. The unit will incorporate an examination of how these multiple issues are balanced in the creation and delivery of business events and how the success of this process may be evaluated.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded TSM5500

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Appreciate the scale of the business events sector and recognise the categories and classes of events that comprise it and their respective purposes.
  2. Describe methods by which the success of business events may be measured and reported upon.
  3. Explain the elements of the demand-side and supply-side drivers of the business events sector.
  4. Explain the importance of the media and marketing communications to the production of business events.
  5. Identify the potential sources of income and expense for business events and explain how these can be managed to influence successful outcomes.

Unit Content

  1. Introduction: About business events.
  2. Categories and classes of business events.
  3. Participants and their motivation.
  4. Suppliers and supplies.
  5. Funding of business events.
  6. Operations management.
  7. Marketing communications management.
  8. Administration and risk management.
  9. Incentives: Travel and entertainment.
  10. Event evaluation and reporting.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 3 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

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

Additional Learning Experience Information

Guest lecturers from event businesses are used in this unit to enhance the learning experiences of students by providing industry insights and networking opportunities.

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.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
ProjectBusiness Events Analysis30%
ReportMajor Business Event Plan30%
AssignmentOnline Assessment40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
ProjectBusiness Events Analysis 30%
ReportMajor Business Event Plan30%
AssignmentOnline Assessment40%

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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School: Business and Law

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Business Events Management
  • Unit Code

    TSM3500
  • Year

    2023
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Eunjung KIM

Description

The emphasis of this unit is to provide students with a detailed and practical understanding of the business events sector (sometimes referred to as the 'Meetings Incentives Conventions and Exhibitions’ (MICE) industry). The unit will look at the sector from multiple perspectives including the origins of demand and the sources of supply, the opportunities for generating income and the activities that create expenses. The key role of marketing communications will also be examined in detail. The unit will be largely presented from the viewpoint of a business event manager. A categorisation of business events into meetings (including conferences and conventions), exhibitions (including trade shows, public shows and expositions) and incentives (encompassing incentive travel and corporate hospitality events) will be adopted. The unit will incorporate an examination of how these multiple issues are balanced in the creation and delivery of business events and how the success of this process may be evaluated.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded TSM5500

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Appreciate the scale of the business events sector and recognise the categories and classes of events that comprise it and their respective purposes.
  2. Describe methods by which the success of business events may be measured and reported upon.
  3. Explain the elements of the demand-side and supply-side drivers of the business events sector.
  4. Explain the importance of the media and marketing communications to the production of business events.
  5. Identify the potential sources of income and expense for business events and explain how these can be managed to influence successful outcomes.

Unit Content

  1. Introduction: About business events.
  2. Categories and classes of business events.
  3. Participants and their motivation.
  4. Suppliers and supplies.
  5. Funding of business events.
  6. Operations management.
  7. Marketing communications management.
  8. Administration and risk management.
  9. Incentives: Travel and entertainment.
  10. Event evaluation and reporting.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 3 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

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

Additional Learning Experience Information

Guest lecturers from event businesses are used in this unit to enhance the learning experiences of students by providing industry insights and networking opportunities.

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.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
ProjectBusiness Events Analysis30%
ReportMajor Business Event Plan30%
AssignmentOnline Assessment40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
ProjectBusiness Events Analysis 30%
ReportMajor Business Event Plan30%
AssignmentOnline Assessment40%

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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