Course Title: Management Skills

Part A: Course Overview

Program: C5001

Course Title: Management Skills

Portfolio: DSC

Nominal Hours: 70.0

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Course Code

Campus

Career

School

Learning Mode

Teaching Period(s)

BUSM5529

Bundoora Campus

TAFE

365T Global Studies, Soc Sci & Plng

Distance / Correspondence

Term1 2012

Course Contact: Jennifer Brooker

Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 4115

Course Contact Email: jennifer.brooker@rmit.edu.au


Course Description

This module focuses on the full range of management roles and tasks that a youth development worker may need to perform and about which will need to know.   The module begins by exploring the concept of management and the theories informing the practices of management.  It then focuses on showing how to manage both resources and staff  a manager is responsible for.   It also guides you through management organisational development and change.  Key management processes are covered in detail, including managing time, managing oneself,  managing resources, staff development, budgeting and monitoring expenditure and managing communication and information technology.


Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

None


Learning Outcomes

The module begins by exploring the concept of management and the theories informing the practices of management. It then focuses on showing how to manage both resources and staff a manager is responsible for. It also guides you through management organisational development and change. Key management processes are covered in details, including managing time, managing oneself, managing resources, staff development, budgeting and monitoring expenditure and managing communication and information technology.


Overview of Assessment

One essay
Learning Journal