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UMG8023 Intractable Problems

Block 1, 2023 Online
Units : 0.25
School or Department : School of Business
Grading basis : Graded
Course fee schedule : /current-students/administration/fees/fee-schedules

Requisites

Enrolment is not permitted if MGT8038 has been previously completed

Overview

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.

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.

Course learning outcomes

On successful completion of this course students should be able to:

  1. apply specialist leadership knowledge to generate a plan to effectively enable teams and individual performance in the workplace (MGT8038 LO5);
  2. 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

There are no texts or materials required for this course.

Assessment details

Approach Type Description Group
Assessment
Weighting (%) Course learning outcomes
Assignments Written Report No 100 1,2
Date printed 9 February 2024