Future Management Skills
Duration
- One Semester or equivalent
Contact hours
- 36 hours
On-campus unit delivery combines face-to-face and digital learning.
2023 teaching periods
Hawthorn Higher Ed. Semester 2 |
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Dates: Results: Last self enrolment: Census: Last withdraw without fail: |
Aims and objectives
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.
Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:
5. Articulate and demonstrate how advanced digital literacy capabilities can be used to further their career
Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:
1. Demonstrate advanced knowledge of managerial skills including the future of work
2. Critically analyse and extend theories for organisational capability development
3. Communicate effectively to positively impact personal and team outcomes
4. Reflect on and learn from past experience to articulate and implement their professional purpose
Unit information in detail
- Teaching methods, assessment and content.
Teaching methods
Face to Face Mode: Class 36 hrs (12 x 3 hrs)
or
maybe delivered in block or intensive mode. Block mode may consist of blended, intensive and immersive teaching, which can include full day teaching and weekend teaching requirements.
Independent Learning
114 hrs (12 x 9.5 hrs)
Assessment
1. Assignment (Individual) 20 - 30%
2. Presentation and Report (Group) 30 - 40%
3. Portfolio (Individual) 30 - 50%
2. Presentation and Report (Group) 30 - 40%
3. Portfolio (Individual) 30 - 50%
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.
Reading materials
Reading materials for this unit consists of a series of peer-reviewed journal articles. Students are advised to check the unit outline in the relevant teaching period for the list of reading material.