Course Title: Ensure team effectiveness
Part B: Course Detail
Teaching Period: Term1 2013
Course Code: EMPL5620C
Course Title: Ensure team effectiveness
School: 130T Vocational Engineering
Campus: City Campus
Program: C6083 - Advanced Diploma of Electronics and Communications Engineering
Course Contact: William Lau
Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 4468
Course Contact Email: william.lau@rmit.edu.au
Name and Contact Details of All Other Relevant Staff
George Listopad Phone: 9925 4441
Email: george.listopad@rmit.edu.au
Location: Bld 57, Level 5, Room 11
Nominal Hours: 60
Regardless of the mode of delivery, represent a guide to the relative teaching time and student effort required to successfully achieve a particular competency/module. This may include not only scheduled classes or workplace visits but also the amount of effort required to undertake, evaluate and complete all assessment requirements, including any non-classroom activities.
Pre-requisites and Co-requisites
NONE
Course Description
This unit specifies the outcome required by frontline managers to facilitate all aspects of team work within the organisation. It involves taking a leadership role in the development of team plans, leading and facilitating team work ant actively engaging with the management of the organisation.
National Codes, Titles, Elements and Performance Criteria
National Element Code & Title: |
BSBFLM512A Ensure team effectiveness |
Element: |
1. Establish team performance plan |
Performance Criteria: |
1.1 Team members are consulted to establish team purpose, roles, responsibilities and accountabilities in accordance with organisational goals, plans and objectives.
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Element: |
2. Develop and facilitate team cohesion |
Performance Criteria: |
.1 Strategies are developed to ensure team members have input into planning, decision making and operational aspects of work team
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Element: |
3. Facilitate team work |
Performance Criteria: |
3.1 Team members and individuals are encouraged to participate in taking responsibility for team activities, including communication processes
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Element: |
4. Liaise with stakeholders |
Performance Criteria: |
4.1 Open communication processes with all stakeholders are established and maintained |
Learning Outcomes
Details of Learning Activities
Practical work will be assessed under conditions which simulate the normal work environment.
Learning activities will include oral and written demonstration, simulation role-plays, computer assisted learning, observation of group discussions, assignment and projects.
You will gain a competence in this course by participating in the following:
- Attending scheduled classes to understand theoretical concepts and models applicable to team work
- Classroom group discussions
- Consultations with the teacher to identify gaps in one’s skills and knowledge in the specified area
- Team activities including team meetings and work on assignments
- Practical demonstrations of achieved competency in a simulated work place environment
- Team participation within class is a mandatory and assessable component of this course
Teaching Schedule
Week | Competency Element / Topic | Assessment |
1 | Course overview, Class schedule, Assessment tasks and Introductions | |
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3 |
1. Establish team performance plan. (1.1, 1.2) 3. Facilitate team work (3.1)
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4 | Working on assessment task 1. Development of individual and team performance plans | Assessment Task 1 (20%) |
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2. Develop and facilitate team cohesion (2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4)
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2. Develop and facilitate team cohesion (2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4)
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10 - 11 | 2. Develop and facilitate team cohesion (2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4) 3. Facilitate team work (3.1, 3.2, 3.3 ) 4. Liaise with stakeholders (4.1, 4.2, 4.3)
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12 | Working on Assessment task 2. | Assessment Part 2 (20%) |
13 - 14 |
2. Develop and facilitate team cohesion (2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4)
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15 | Team work on Assessment Task 3. | |
16 | Team Project presentation and submission | Assessment Task 3 (30%) |
17 | Centralised Exam Period Week 1 | |
18 | Centralised Exam Period Week 2 | |
Team participation within class throughout course (all) | Assessment Task 4 (30%) | |
Learning Resources
Prescribed Texts
Ingre, David, Engineering Communication: A Practical Guide to Workplace Communications for Engineering Students,
1st Edition, Cengage Learning, 2008 |
9780495082569 |
Robbins, Stephen (2009), Foundations of Management, 3rd ed. Pearson Education: FrenchForest, NSW |
References
Cole, K. (2001), Supervision: the theory and practice of front-line management, Prentice Hall: Australia |
Other Resources
Learning Guide and other additional reference material will be available from the course Blackboard web site.
Overview of Assessment
Progressive assessments will include oral and written demonstration, simulation role-plays, computer assisted learning, observation of group discussions, assignment and projects. Practical work will be assessed under conditions which simulate the normal work environment.
Assessment Tasks
To demonstrate competence in this course you are required to complete the following assessment tasks:
Assessment Task 1. Written group assignment. Due week 4, (20% )
Assessment Task 2. Written group assignment. Due week 12 (20%)
Assessment Task 3. Group project submission and oral presentation. Due week 16 (30%)
Assessment Task 4: Team participation within class (30%)
Assessment Task 1. Written group assignment.
Working in teams of 3 or 4, to submit written answers to a range of questions, related to establishing team performance plan: BSBFLM512A (1.1, 1.2, 1.3)
Namely,
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- Establishing team purpose, roles, responsibilities and accountabilities in accordance with organisational goals, plans and objectives.
- Establishing expected outcomes, outputs, key performance indicators and goals for work team.
- Developing performance plans in consultation with team members
This will include Team and Individual performence plans, and documented Minutes of team meetings where these plans were discussed.
Assessment Task 2. Written group assignment.
Working in teams of 3 or 4, to submit written answers to a range of questions, related to BSBFLM512A :
- Develop and facilitate team cohesion (2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4)
- Facilitate team work (3.1, 3.2, 3.3 )
- Liaise with stakeholders (4.1, 4.2, 4.3)
Assessment Task 3. Group project submission and oral presentation.
This assessment task will assess your competence in all elements of BSBFLM512A :
- Establish team performance plan (1.1, 1.2, 1.3)
- Develop and facilitate team cohesion (2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4)
- Facilitate team work (3.1, 3.2, 3.3 )
- Liaise with stakeholders (4.1, 4.2, 4.3)
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- The group project will refer to a real or imaginary scenario which simulates a work place situation.
- This assessment task requires your team to prepare written report and make an oral presentation based on this report.
- Your oral presentation should be supported by visual aids.
- Content of the report is worth 20%; all team members get the same mark.
- Oral presentation worth 20% will be marked individually.
Assessment Task 4. Participation within class (all competencies)
This course is graded using the following course grades:
CHD - Competent with High Distinction ( 80% - 100% )
CDI - Competent with Distinction ( 70% - 79% )
CC - Competent with Credit ( 60% - 69% )
CAG - Competency Achieved - Graded ( 50% - 59% )
NYC - Not Yet Competent ( less than 50% )
DNS - Did Not Submit for Assessment
Assessment Matrix
Competency Element / Assessment Task |
Written group assignment 1 | Written group assignment 2 |
Group Project Report and Presentation |
Team participation within class |
Establish team performance plan (1.1, 1.2, 1.3) | XXX | XXX | XXX | All |
Develop and facilitate team cohesion (2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4) | XXX | XXX | All | |
Develop and facilitate team cohesion (2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4) | XXX | XXX | All | |
Liaise with stakeholders (4.1, 4.2, 4.3) | XXX | XXX | All |
Other Information
In this course, minimum student directed hours are 28 in addition to 32 scheduled teaching hours.
Student directed hours involve completing activities such as reading online resources, team assignments, project work, and individual student-teacher course-related consultation.
Study and learning Support:
Study and Learning Centre (SLC) provides free learning and academic development advice to all RMIT students.
Services offered by SLC to support numeracy and literacy skills of the students are:
Assignment writing, thesis writing and study skills advice
Maths and science developmental support and advice
English language development
Please Refer http://www.rmit.edu.au/studyandlearningcentre to find more information about Study and learning Support
Disability Liaison Unit:
Students with disability or long-term medical condition should contact Disability Liaison Unit to seek advice and support to
complete their studies.
Please Refer http://www.rmit.edu.au/disability to find more information about services offered by Disability Liaison Unit
Late submission:
Students requiring extensions for 7 calendar days or less (from the original due date) must complete and lodge an Application
for Extension of Submittable Work (7 Calendar Days or less) form and lodge it with the Senior Educator/ Program Manager.
The application must be lodged no later than one working day before the official due date. The student will be notified within
no more than 2 working days of the date of lodgment as to whether the extension has been granted.
Students seeking an extension of more than 7 calendar days (from the original due date) must lodge an Application for Special
Consideration form under the provisions of the Special Consideration Policy, preferably prior to, but no later than 2 working days
after the official due date.
Assignments submitted late without approval of an extension will not be accepted or marked.
Special consideration:
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Plagiarism:
Plagiarism is a form of cheating and it is very serious academic offence that may lead to expulsion from the University.
Please Refer: www.rmit.edu.au/academicintegrity to find more information about plagiarism.
Other Information:
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