GC103 - Graduate Certificate in Management

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Plan: GC103P11 - Graduate Certificate in Management
Campus: City Campus

Learning outcomes

Statement of capabilities

The Graduate Certificate in Management Program has seven capabilities.  These capabilities are outlined in Table 6.1.  The capabilities are linked to RMIT University’s graduate attributes.

 

 

Table 6.1 Program Capabilities and RMIT’s Graduate Attributes

 

Capability

Dimension of Capability

Link to Graduate Attributes

To manage in a complex and dynamic environment through a deep understanding of the forces that shape sustainable practice

·         Demonstrate anunderstanding of the development of management and organisation theory and its relationship to management practice

·         To recognise and respond appropriately to the diversity of organisational cultures and management processes and practices taking account of local and global environmental factors and their impact on sustainability

 

Global in outlook and competence

To critically reflect on the impacts of organisation and management practices

 

·         To articulate the tensions that the reflective practitioner experiences as he/she mediates between theoretical understanding and local practices/knowledge.

·         To critically reflect upon the impact of personal thinking, decision making and actions over time

·         To understand the need for continuous learning in order to develop sustainable management practices

Lifelong learners

 

 

Engage with a diverse range of people to demonstrate that management is  a social process

 

·         To work with others in a dynamic workplace.

·         To understand different viewpoints, negotiate and manage conflict.

·         To demonstrate effective interpersonal communication skills

·         To provide teams and workgroups with effective leadership and support in achieving identified goals.

 

Culturally and socially aware

 

 

To think critically and creatively, being open to new ideas and ways to effect innovation.

 

·         To understand the links between innovation, investigation and analysis.

·         To be able to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of different forms of inquiry and investigation.

 

Innovative

 

To act as an agent for sustainable change

 

·       To critically assess the impacts of different courses of action in terms of social, economic and environmental sustainability.

·         To critically reflect upon the strengths and weaknesses of management practice

·       To plan and facilitate action based on the design and implementation of sustainable management practice.

 

Environmentally aware and responsive

To embrace the need for responsible and sustainable management

·         To be aware of and responsive to ethical issues in management action.

·         To critically evaluate the ethics and morality of management practices

·         To identify the stakeholders in any situation

·       To understand the difference between shareholder- and stakeholder-centric management decisions

Culturally and socially aware

To argue for and justify particular courses of action over others in terms of their social, economic and environmental impacts.

 

·         To integrate consideration of complex and often ambiguous inputs to management decision making

·         To identify relevant sources of information and data required in order to inform decision making

·         To assess and evaluate a range of possible courses of action in relation to different inputs

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