Management Competencies

This subject has the following teaching availabilities in 2014:

Approximately 2.5 hours of personal study per hour of class time is required to achieve a satisfactory level of performance

For the purposes of considering requests for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Cwth 2005), and Students Experiencing Academic Disadvantage Policy, academic requirements for this subject are articulated in the Subject Description, Subject Objectives, Generic Skills and Assessment Requirements for this entry.

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In this subject you will engage in an assessment of your management skills and develop your ethical, personal, interpersonal and team-based skills. By doing so, you will develop your knowledge of management as well as capacity for creative analysis, problem solving, ethical decision making and written and verbal communication

On successful completion of this subject, students should be able to:

1. Engage in the critical skills and knowledge of managerial work;
2. Analyse and evaluate and develop the key competencies you need to become a successful manager including stress management, ethical decision-making, problem solving, innovation, coaching, motivating and leading.
3. Demonstrate your capability in several critical management competencies;
4. Critically analyse management problems and apply relevant model and theories to generate effective solutions.
5. Use evidence based research techniques to support management decision making.

Standard Semester

• 1000 word individual assignment (10%);
• Individual weekly online quiz, commencing week 2(10%);
• 3000 word team project due week 9 (30%);
• 500 word profile plan due in week 5 (5%); and
• 3000 word individual management competencies portfolio due at end-of-semester (45%).

Intensive Semester

• 1000 word individual case study assignment due 31 January 2014 (10%);
• 4000 word team case report due 17 February 2014 (30%);
• Weekly online quizzes, starts the first week of lectures and runs until the end of summer semester (10%);
• 500 word individual Profile Plan due February 3 2014 (5%); and
• 3000 word Management Competencies Profile individual due 28 February 2014 (45%).

This subject is not available as a breadth subject.

On successful completion of this subject, students should have improved the following generic skills:

• Critical thinking, problem solving and decision making skills, developed through reflection, case studies, experiential activities and assignments;
• Research skills developed through preparation of exercises and assessment;
• Verbal and written communication skills, developed through discussion, experiential activities and assessment;
• Ethical thinking and work practice skills in management, through experiential activities and case studies.