| Effective Term: | 2024/05 |
| Institute / School : | Institute of Innovation, Science & Sustainability |
| Unit Title: | Organisations: Behaviour, Structure, Process |
| Unit ID: | BUMGT5921 |
| Credit Points: | 15.00 |
| Prerequisite(s): | Nil |
| Co-requisite(s): | Nil |
| Exclusion(s): | Nil |
| ASCED: | 080307 |
| Other Change: | |
| Brief description of the Unit |
This course enhances the learner's understanding of organisations and in particular how organisations behave and how they are structured. The course provides opportunities for learners to understand the role and purpose of organisations within society that will allow them to analyse and evaluate effective organisational design, structure and processes. The link between organisations and management is also reviewed in-depth so that learners will be able to synthesise or creatively construct new organisational structures and processes to meet future trends and challenges. Learners will be able to identify dysfunctional organisations and be able to innovatively design more effective and sustainable organisations. The course achieves its objectives by tailoring assessable tasks and individual research in this field |
| Grade Scheme: | Graded (HD, D, C, P, MF, F, XF) |
| Work Experience Indicator: |
| No work experience |
| Placement Component: | |
| Supplementary Assessment:Yes |
| Where supplementary assessment is available a student must have failed overall in the Unit but gained a final mark of 45 per cent or above, has completed all major assessment tasks (including all sub-components where a task has multiple parts) as specified in the Unit Description and is not eligible for any other form of supplementary assessment |
| Course Level: |
| Level of Unit in Course | AQF Level(s) of Course | | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | | Introductory | | | | | | | | Intermediate | | | |  | | | | Advanced | | | | | | |
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| Learning Outcomes: |
| Knowledge: |
| K1. | Examine each individual model and how these integrate to determine and explain organisational behaviour |
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| K2. | Evaluate the theories used to explain effective organisational structure and design in order to determine the application of design and structure to organisations and how these aid the organisation achieve success |
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| K3. | Deduce the benefits and dysfunctionality that processes can bring to organisations |
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| K4. | Critically appraise how organisational behaviour, structure, design and processes need to be properly integrated to help an organisation to become as effective and efficient as possible |
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| Skills: |
| S1. | Analyse and evaluate organisational behaviour, structure, design and processes to match the needs of the organisation |
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| S2. | Creatively design new and different approaches to meet the challenges faced by organisations in the future by proposing effective solutions to problems, concepts and/or theories |
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| S3. | Conduct relevant research and question the appropriateness of contemporary models |
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| S4. | Contribute to the development of new organisational practices by reflecting on theory and scholarship |
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| Application of knowledge and skills: |
| A1. | Successfully analyse the behaviour, structure, design and process needs of an organisation with high level personal autonomy and accountability |
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| A2. | Create strategies that meet the needs of the organisation |
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| A3. | Develop the capacity for self-reflection and to undertake professional development |
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| Other outcomes: |
| Unit Content: |
Topics may include: 1.What is an organisation? 2.What is the role of people within an organisation? 3.How do individual behaviour, group behaviour, leadership, management and decision making fit within the organisational context? 4.Ethics, motivation, strategy, conflict, power, systems, culture, change, conflict, power, internal and external environments, organisational design, processes, structure, communication and control |
| Graduate Attributes: |
| | Learning Outcomes Assessed | Assessment Tasks | Assessment Type | Weighting | Professional Standards |
| 1. |
K1, K2, K3, S1, S2, S3, A1 |
Individuals will provide a report that will draw upon content and activities covered in class as well as individual research |
Individual report |
10-20 |
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| 2. |
K1, K4, S1, S2, S3, S4, A2, A3 |
Groups will form to identify the needs of an organisation and effectively communicate appropriate strategies to deal with them. This may include an overview of individual self-reflection |
Presentation and report |
20-40 |
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| 3. |
K1, K2, K3, K4, S1, S2, A1 |
This case study will draw upon the core principles studied throughout the course. Learners will need to analyse, evaluate, synthesise and determine appropriately justified strategies |
Case Study |
40-60 |
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