Course Title: Organisations
Part A: Course Overview
Course Title: Organisations
Credit Points: 12.00
Terms
Flexible Terms
Course Code |
Campus |
Career |
School |
Learning Mode |
Teaching Period(s) |
BUSM1094 |
City Campus |
Undergraduate |
630H Management |
Internet |
JulDec2023 (All) |
BUSM1094 |
City Campus |
Undergraduate |
630H Management |
Internet |
JulDec2024 (All) |
Course Coordinator: Dr Prue Burns
Course Coordinator Phone: +61 3 9925 2065
Course Coordinator Email: prue.burns@rmit.edu.au
Course Coordinator Location: Building 80
Course Coordinator Availability: Via email
Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities
None
Course Description
In this course you will learn to critically examine organisations and develop a range of approaches for analysing and interpreting organisations. The course adopts a multi-perspective and interdisciplinary approach. We provide you with a toolset to analyse organisations through different theoretical lenses and at different levels: at the individual, organisational, and social level. This course develops your critical reasoning and reflective skills, and supports you to apply these skills to a range of organisations in different contexts. The course also examines the assumptions we make about knowledge, and the consequences of these assumptions for future managers.
Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development
None
On successful completion of this course you will be able to:
CLO1: Identify different analytical perspectives employed to understand organisations at the individual, organisational, and societal levels.
CLO2: Interpret and apply these multiple perspectives to empirically analyse organisations and the contexts in which they operate.
CLO3:Draw on different analytical perspectives as the basis for a socially responsible, ideologically aware approaches towards organisational problem-solving.
CLO4: Evaluate knowledge assumptions, including one’s own, and come to recognise their practical implications for management.
Overview of Learning Activities
At the completion of this course, you will be able to:
- Apply a broad theoretical and technical knowledge of business practice in diverse contexts.
- Apply theoretical and technical knowledge to provide in-depth specialist and professional advice related to one or more disciplines.
- Critically analyse and synthesise information to formulate effective business decisions.
- Apply reasoned judgments to solve problems in a variety of business contexts with reference to ethical, regulatory and global perspectives.
Overview of Learning Resources
You are expected identify and access library and electronic resources (and other appropriate resources) to engage in private study of relevant organisational analysis literature, particularly in relation to core concepts and management processes. RMIT will provide you with resources and tools for learning in this course through its online systems.
Other Resources
A comprehensive set of weekly readings for this course is available in electronic format on Canvas. This is an indicative list of readings from a range of textbooks and scholarly journals that introduce underlying principles and concepts in Organisational Analysis.
Online Resources
Canvas assists and supports your learning in this course. You must familiarise yourselves with this website, and the resources it contains. Throughout the semester, important and course related announcements will be posted on the ‘Announcements’ page, so it is your responsibility to regularly review this webpage to make sure you do not miss important information.
Overview of Assessment
The assessment tasks, their weighting and the course learning outcomes to which they are aligned are as follows:
Assessment Task |
Weighting (%) |
Linked CLOs |
Assessment Task 1 |
20% |
1, 2, 3, 4 |
Assessment Task 2 |
40% |
1, 2, 3, 4 |
Assessment Task 3 |
40% |
1, 2, 3, 4 |