Course Title: Organisational Experience

Part A: Course Overview

Course Title: Organisational Experience

Credit Points: 12.00

Terms

Course Code	Campus	Career	School	Learning Mode	Teaching Period(s)
BUSM4546	City Campus	Undergraduate	630H Management	Face-to-Face	Sem 1 2017, Sem 2 2017, Sem 2 2018, Sem 1 2019, Sem 2 2019, Sem 1 2020, Sem 2 2020, Sem 1 2021, Sem 2 2021, Sem 2 2022, Sem 2 2023, Sem 2 2024, Sem 1 2025
BUSM4547	Singapore Inst of Management	Undergraduate	630H Management	Face-to-Face	Offsh3 17, Offsh1 18, Offsh3 18, Offsh1 19, Offsh3 19, Offsh1 20, Offsh3 20, Offsh1 21, Offsh3 21, Offsh1 22, Offsh3 22, Offsh1 23, Offsh3 23, Offsh1 24, Offsh3 24, Offsh1 25
BUSM4549	RMIT University Vietnam	Undergraduate	630H Management	Face-to-Face	Viet2 2017, Viet3 2018, Viet1 2019, Viet3 2019, Viet1 2020, Viet2 2020, Viet2 2021, Viet1 2022, Viet2 2022, Viet2 2023, Viet3 2023, Viet2 2024, Viet3 2024
BUSM4652	RMIT Vietnam Hanoi Campus	Undergraduate	630H Management	Face-to-Face	Viet3 2019, Viet2 2020, Viet3 2020, Viet2 2021, Viet2 2022, Viet3 2023, Viet3 2024

Flexible Terms

Course Code	Campus	Career	School	Learning Mode	Teaching Period(s)
BUSM4546	City Campus	Undergraduate	630H Management	Internet	JanJun2025 (All)
BUSM4548	Universitas Pelita Harapan	Undergraduate	630H Management	Face-to-Face	OFFSe12018 (UB3)
BUSM4548	Universitas Pelita Harapan	Undergraduate	630H Management	Face-to-Face	OFFSe12019 (All)

Course Coordinator: Dr. Hamidreza Harati

Course Coordinator Phone: +61 3 9925 0000

Course Coordinator Email: hamidreza.harati@rmit.edu.au

Course Coordinator Location: Building: 80 Level: 9

Course Coordinator Availability: Please check with course coordinator

Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

This course is a capstone course in the Management & Change Major within BP343 & BP344 Bachelor of Business degrees as well as for the BP217 Bachelor of Business (Management) program, and associated double degrees. The design of the course presumes that you have spent significant time over the last three years working through a broad range of management theories and have studied where these theories might be utilised. In this course, you will apply theoretical knowledge in appropriate and creative ways. Presuming you are in your final year of your program of study, It is assumed that you have the capacity to connect the theory we teach in this course with your previous learning, knowledge, and experience. This course encourages you to embody truly independent learning modalities, in charge of your own scholarly path and in engaged dialogue with others at a similar point in their life-long learning journey. This course is therefore only appropriate for students who are in the final semester of their program sequence. Therefore, unless you have earned 192 credit points of Higher Educational study experience, including Strategy, we strongly advise you to delay enrollment in this course. You will be in a much stronger position to take advantage of the opportunity afforded by this course in your third year with the appropriate level of accumulated knowledge and experience to do well.

Course Description

This semester you will integrate, critically reflect on and integrate management theory with practice-based knowledge and skills necessary to succeed as a manager in your chosen career. You will draw upon concepts, applications, and frameworks including your broadened awareness of social, political, and environmental influences to identify and solve authentic business problems. You will undertake business-focused research and apply academic knowledge and skills to produce three items of assessment which will prepare you function as a business professional upon graduation. Learning modalities will involve a mix of face to face and flexible delivery modes to review concepts, models and frameworks. You are expected to attend class weekly and participate in discussions in order to maximise your learning outcomes. Scaffolding time in class, there are guided activities to be completed in preparation for and following your weekly class. These activities include engaging with the textbook and the substantial reading list, as well as working through digital activities on the course learning website. You are required to be proactive and self-directed in your learning, having a critical inquiry approach and seeking information from a range of people, services, and resources as required. Numerous resources are available through the RMIT Library. Links. Materials specific to this course are available through the Canvas Course site. You will also be required to actively and effectively engage with peers in collaborative problem-solving activities. Importantly, this course features a Work Integrated Learning (WIL) experience. You will use your knowledge and skills through a real or simulated workplace context. You will receive valuable feedback from industry on your work as well as academic feedback.

Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development

.

On successful completion of this course you will be able to:

1. Apply broad theoretical and practical knowledge of management in real business situations. 
2. Identify the strengths and limitations of different management approaches in order to make informed determinations about when best to use them in different organisational contexts and situations.
3. Develop applied skills to conduct industry and company research involving critically analysing and synthesising business information.
4. Develop a disciplined and an integrative approach for analyzing organisations and their organisational environment for the purposes of formulating and implementing management strategy.
5. Evaluate management approaches and alternatives through a collaborative process to solve business problems in ethical and socially responsible manners. 
6. Communicate business data through research analysis and report writing.

Overview of Learning Activities

In this course you will be encouraged to be an active learner. Your learning will be supported through various in-class and online activities comprising individual and group work. These may include quizzes; assignments; prescribed readings; sourcing, researching and analysing specific information; solving problems; conducting presentations; producing written work and collaborating with peers on set tasks or projects.

Overview of Learning Resources

Various learning resources are available online through MyRMIT Studies\Canvas. The lecture notes and workshop notes are posted on Canvas.

Resources are also available online through RMIT Library databases and other facilities. Visit the RMIT library website for further details. Assistance is available online via our chat and email services, face to face at our campus libraries or via the telephone on (03) 9925 2020.

Additional resources and/or sources to assist your learning will be identified by your course coordinator and will be made available to you as required during the teaching period. 

Overview of Assessment

The assessment tasks, their weighting and the course learning outcomes to which they are aligned are as follows:

Assessment Task 1: 20%
Linked CLOs: 1, 5

Assessment Task 2: 50%
Linked CLOs: 2, 4, 5, 6

Assessment Task 3: 30%
Linked CLOs: 3, 6