Program Overview

Diploma in Business
To succeed in business, you must possess both the knowledge and know-how to develop original and exciting initiatives and to build and implement the strategies that will make these initiatives successful. This course aims to harness your energy and passion for success by focussing on career and the future of enterprises in a range of contexts. Whether you wish to start your own business or pursue a corporate role in a global enterprise, this course provides the necessary skills.

Students successfully completing the Diploma in Business will be granted entry into the second year of a Bachelor of Business degree at Western Sydney University.

Leading to: Bachelor of Business

This program gives you the knowledge to create a career as a business professional. Whether you wish to pursue a corporate role in a global enterprise or start your own business, this program will provide you with the skills to do it.

Be job-ready and prepared for enterprise futures by studying a competitive, high value, globally accredited degree located within the fastest growing region in the Australian economy.
The Bachelor of Business at Western offers 10 different majors to choose from (Accounting, Applied Finance, Economics, Property, International Business, Marketing, Sports Management, Human Resources, Management, Business Analytics), leading to a diverse range of career possibilities. 

Major: Human Resource Management
The Human Resource Management Major is designed for people who seek careers in human resource management and industrial relations.

Graduates’ careers focus on enhancing the value of human and social capital through supporting employee engagement for many different kinds of organisations, market-oriented and community-oriented organisations and many kinds of people. The teaching philosophy is based on knowledge in action, a fusion of the Australia Human Resource Institute’s capabilities for HR professionals and the Western Sydney University Graduate Attributes designed to secure success.

An aim of the program is to instil those values and attitudes that can support leaders in judgements about balancing the pursuit of organisational objectives with creating opportunities for developing people’s capacities and careers. The perspectives are local and international, with an emphasis on the value of cultural and demographic diversity. Graduates have knowledge of how leadership and management of people can support organisational objectives and create organisational opportunities.

This capacity comes from grounding in human resource management and industrial relations practice using contemporary law and research in applied projects. Students combine this with an education in the pressures organisations experience in inter-disciplinary subjects focused on money, markets and management. That is, graduates develop commercial acumen and appreciate the competing interests around work, aware of trends locally and internationally.

Throughout the program, students are challenged to develop and demonstrate communication, cultural, and analytic skills required to be innovative and responsible team-members and leaders.