| Semester 2, 2020 Online | |
| Short Description: | Intractable Problems |
| Units : | 0.25 |
| Faculty or Section : | Faculty of Business, Education, Law and Arts |
| School or Department : | School of Management and Enterprise |
| Student contribution band : | Band 3 |
| ASCED code : | 080307 - Organisation Management |
| Grading basis : | Graded |
Rationale
The nature of the 21st century workplace is challenging. Leaders need to be able to manage complexity and uncertainty navigating many different moving parts, all within a changing market place and unprecedented change. In many workplaces, ongoing quality, productivity or product issues have their foundation in some sort of ongoing problem that has not been addressed, whether that be structural, related to people, workflows, technology or a changing market. This minicourse focuses on intractable problems, which are characterised as professional or workplace problems that are persistent, significant, and not easily managed or solved.
Synopsis
This minicourse aims to support students to develop confidence and capacity in tackling these sort of problems in a way that adds value to their professional context by strengthening others in the organisation.
Please be advised that this minicourse is made up of four parts please see MGT8038 for the full course specification.
Objectives
On successful completion of this course students should be able to:
- apply specialist leadership knowledge to generate a plan to effectively enable teams and individual performance in the workplace (MGT8038 LO5);
- critically reflect and integrate leader theories that help to build adaptive leader-member relationships (MGT8038 LO2).
Topics
| Description | Weighting(%) | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Outlining intractable problems | 33.00 |
| 2. | Leadership responses to intractable problems | 33.00 |
| 3. | Developing future leaders as problems solvers | 34.00 |
Text and materials required to be purchased or accessed
ALL textbooks and materials available to be purchased can be sourced from (unless otherwise stated). (https://omnia.usq.edu.au/textbooks/?year=2020&sem=02&subject1=UMG8023)
Please for alternative purchase options from USQ Bookshop. (https://omnia.usq.edu.au/info/contact/)
There are no texts or materials required for this course.
Reference materials
Reference materials are materials that, if accessed by students, may improve their knowledge and understanding of the material in the course and enrich their learning experience.
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Assessment details
| Description | Marks out of | Wtg (%) | Due Date | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assessment 1 | 50 | 100 | 07 Sep 2020 | (see note 1) |
Notes
- The assessment for this minicourse is due 4 weeks after teaching concludes. Students have access to the learning platform for a total of 11 weeks.
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