Overview

This unit provides problem-centred learning underpinned by ethical issues and dilemma. This approach has been described as wicked problems with students challenged to develop wicked solutions. Enterprises increasingly involve teams of experts from diverse backgrounds and decision-making needs to deal with ever more complex and evolving situations and demands on management in this digital era where so much information and opinion are instantly available. The unit culminates with a day session in a simulator using technology, actors and reviews to assess the students as a real-life situation evolves.

Requisites

Prerequisites
MGT80004 Leadership, Innovation and Creativity

Rule

100 credit points

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:

  • Apply advanced and coherent knowledge of the managerial framework for leading people effectively
  • Apply problem solving, design and decision making processes to realistic ethical dilemmas and demonstrate the strategic use of individual and team-based communications to achieve these objectives
  • Critically evaluate the fundamentals of people management to effectively manage the organisations human resources
  • Work collaboratively in groups to address ethical dilemmas to reach effective solutions

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
Project ReportGroup 20 - 30% 1,2,3,4 
ReportGroup 20 - 30% 2,3,4 
Research ReportIndividual 40 - 60% 1,2,3 

Content

  • Strategic Management
  • Deadly Combinations/Wicked Problems
  • Human Resources Management
  • Leadership
  • Ethical Problem Solving
  • Innovative Decision Making
  • Organisational Learning

Study resources

Reading materials

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