Overview

This unit aims to provide students with an opportunity to reflect on and develop skills in individual career development and management, as well as more broadly developing organisational capability as an executive or employer who shapes their world. Through simulation or real world experience the student will have the opportunity to develop critical transferrable skills such as communication, critical thinking, basic consulting and research skills, and broad managerial skills, to enhance their power to influence others and to engage meaningfully in diverse existing and emerging work environments.

Requisites

Teaching Periods
Location
Start and end dates
Last self-enrolment date
Census date
Last withdraw without fail date
Results released date
Semester 1
Location
Hawthorn
Start and end dates
26-February-2024
26-May-2024
Last self-enrolment date
10-March-2024
Census date
31-March-2024
Last withdraw without fail date
12-April-2024
Results released date
02-July-2024
Semester 2
Location
Hawthorn
Start and end dates
29-July-2024
27-October-2024
Last self-enrolment date
11-August-2024
Census date
31-August-2024
Last withdraw without fail date
13-September-2024
Results released date
03-December-2024

Learning outcomes

Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:

  • Demonstrate advanced knowledge of managerial skills including the future of work
  • Critically analyse and extend theories for organisational capability development
  • Communicate effectively to positively impact personal and team outcomes
  • Reflect on and learn from past experience to articulate and implement their professional purpose
  • Articulate and demonstrate how advanced digital literacy capabilities can be used to further their career

Teaching methods

Hawthorn

Type Hours per week Number of weeks Total (number of hours)
On-campus
Class
2.00 12 weeks 24
Online
Lecture
1.00 12 weeks 12
Unspecified Activities
Independent Learning
9.50 12 weeks 114
TOTAL150

Assessment

Type Task Weighting ULO's
AssignmentIndividual 20 - 30% 1,2,3 
PortfolioIndividual 30 - 50% 1,2,3,4,5 
Presentation and ReportGroup 30 - 40% 1,2,3,4 

Content

  • Professional purpose: personal and business goals, personal branding, reflective writing
  • Professional experience: creating value adding outcomes by articulating and shaping business goals and team dynamics,
  • Getting others to commit - Negotiation and conflict management
  • Sensitivity to the working context: Workplace culture and business ethics
  • Aligning and developing personal and organisational capability
  • Understanding and harnessing the power of change
  • Influencing others through leadership and powerful communication
  • Using technology and social media to create individual presence and achieve career outcomes
  • Networking, mentoring and the importance of connections and social capital
  • Preparing and adapting for future Industrial Revolutions
  • Harnessing the drivers behind new technology emergence

Study resources

Reading materials

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