Overview

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Offerings

DUBAI-ISC-TJD-INT-2018-ONGOING
DUBAI-ISC-TSD-INT-2018-ONGOING
KAPLAN-SGP-TJA-INT-2018-ONGOING
KAPLAN-SGP-TMA-INT-2018-ONGOING
KAPLAN-SGP-TSA-INT-2018-ONGOING
MURDOCH-S1-EXT-2018-ONGOING
MURDOCH-S1-INT-2018-ONGOING
MURDOCH-S2-EXT-2018-ONGOING
MURDOCH-S2-INT-2018-ONGOING

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Enrolment rules

BUS145 Principles of Management or BUS176 Foundations of Management and Governance or PSY217 Psychology: Work and Organisations.
Students who have successfully completed BUS223 Organisational Theory and Behaviour may not enrol in this unit for credit.

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Learning activities

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Learning outcomes

1.

Explain how working effectively with people in an organisation can affect both its commercial viability and its sustainability.

2.

Locate and strategically analyse information that will enable informed decisions, grounded in research, in relation to dealing with people in sustainable organisations.

3.

Describe and discuss workplace interactions using the concepts and theories of organisational behaviour.

4.

Discuss the diversity of people and their roles within organisations and how this affects management and leadership in order to address a range of problems.

5.

Discuss how globalisation affects people and decisions within many organisations.

6.

Use professional, interpersonal and communication skills.

7.

Demonstrate reflection skills to evaluate individual and teamwork performance.

Assessments

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Additional information

Unit content:

Key topics to be covered include:

  • individual dimensions of behaviour,
  • personality, perception and learning,
  • communication and motivation;
  • groups and interpersonal influence
  • structure, values, interaction and leadership; and
  • organisational issues such as structure, processes, design, decision making; organisational change and development.

Globalisation and environmental sustainability are embedded into this unit as recurring themes.