Course Title: Professional Development Seminar 2 (Part B)

Part A: Course Overview

Course ID: 028495

Course Title: Professional Development Seminar 2 (Part B)

Credit Points: 6


Course Code

Campus

Career

School

Learning Mode

Teaching Period(s)

BUSM2180B

City Campus

Research

660H Grad School of Business

Face-to-Face

Sem 1 2006,
Sem 2 2006

Course Coordinator: Dr Paul Gibson

Course Coordinator Phone: +61 3

Course Coordinator Email: paul.gibson@rmit.edu.au

Course Coordinator Location: 108.11.06

Course Coordinator Availability: constant


Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

enrolment in the DBA


Course Description

This course aims to:

• Provide candidates with an overview of the issues associated with professional development as an organisational leader, as a practitioner, and as a researcher.
• Give participants an overview of processes that enable them to manage themselves in relation to external effectiveness and internal experience.
• Enable participants to pursue areas of personal development which they believe will assist them in their professional development
• Review some of the emerging concepts and theories relating to action learning, self-management, career and identity, which influence how people personally operate as leaders and managers.


Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development

This course will enhance your capabilities as a leader and as a researcher


By the completion of this course students should be able to:


• Understand and take account of the intrapersonal factors that influence their decisions, actions, and emotions.

• Understand the impact of their behaviour in interpersonal situations and relationships, which are integral to their effectiveness as leaders, change agents, and consultants.

• Enhance the effectiveness of their contributions in those situations.

• Use reflective learning approaches that enable them to constructively and critically review and improve their own behaviour and practice.

• Articulate the central issues and processes that have to be addressed in writing a doctoral thesis.


Overview of Learning Activities

This course involves both seminar and application activities. Seminars will include reflection and discussion of issues that impact on the professional development of participants. The content and process of teaching and learning will be reviewed through ongoing feedback. Students are expected to take responsibility for their own learning and manage their time accordingly.


Overview of Learning Resources

candidates are provided with a set of contemporary readings, primarily research journal articles, and they are given access to our set of successfully completed DBA theses.


Overview of Assessment

Assessment is available only as a Pass or Fail grade in this course.

Assessment in this course takes two forms:
1. ASSESSMENT TASK ONE
Contribution to the peer mentoring processes of professional development and a presentation on the insights gained from studying one of the successful DBA theses kept in the Graduate School of Business.

In addition, on the final Saturday you will be asked to give a verbal presentation of the written report  on your professional development this year.

 

2. ASSESSMENT TASK TWO:
Submission of a written report on your professional development. The report should make primary use of action learning, or theoretically informed critical reflection, or a leadership model of your own design.