Overview

This micro unit examines the behavioural characteristics exhibited by successful entrepreneurs to understand how these contribute to effective entrepreneurial action. Entrepreneurship is a mindset, a specific way of seeing and thinking and acting in the world. Cultivating an entrepreneurial mindset will enable students to nurture and apply their own entrepreneurial characteristics to identify potential entrepreneurial opportunities. Students will also use tools and techniques to measure and develop their own entrepreneurial mindset.

Requisites

Teaching periods
Location
Start and end dates
Last self-enrolment date
Census date
Last withdraw without fail date
Results released date

Unit learning outcomes

Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:

  1. Critically analyse the behavioural characteristics of entrepreneurs.
  2. Understand the connection between entrepreneurial mindset, intuitive decision making and opportunity recognition

Teaching methods

Hawthorn

Type Hours per week Number of weeks Total (number of hours)
Face to Face Contact (Phasing out)
Class
8.00 1 week 8
Online
Directed Online Learning and Independent Learning
2.00 2 weeks 4
Unspecified Learning Activities (Phasing out)
Independent Learning
7.00 4 weeks 28
TOTAL40

Assessment

Type Task Weighting ULO's
Case AnalysisIndividual 0% 1,2 

Content

  • Integrate the concepts of opportunity recognition, entrepreneurial behaviour and entrepreneurial mindset.
  • Apply the validated Cognitive Style Index to increasing a propensity for intuitive decision making style.
  • Review instruments designed to assess company entrepreneurial health and culture.

Study resources

Reading materials

A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.