EDEM669-17S1 (D) Semester One 2017 (Distance)

Leading and Managing Decision-Making in Organisations

30 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 20 February 2017
End Date: Sunday, 25 June 2017
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Friday, 3 March 2017
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 19 May 2017

Description

Participants will engage with current thinking and practice around decision-making in organisations and will develop skill in identifying, critically evaluating and using diverse decision-making models. This course is designed for those who hold, or aspire to, positional leadership. Drawing on theories of organisational psychology, culture and change management, participants will solve an organisational problem, negotiating the dynamics of planned and unplanned change, and change resistance.

Learning Outcomes

  • On successful completion of this course students will be able to:
  • Identify the key factors at play in the external environment in terms of leading organisational management and decision-making
  • Critically evaluate decision-making models and their fitness for purpose
  • Justify ethical principles that underpin decision-making
  • Understand and apply knowledge of power and political dimensions at macro and micro levels in both decision-making and change management
  • Complete a critical review, which includes an assessment of bi-cultural commitments of leadership and management actions, in the context of a significant organizational challenge
  • Formulate a detailed change process to lead in addressing an existing organizational problem.

Prerequisites

Subject to approval from the Head of Department.

Course Coordinator

For further information see School of Educational Studies and Leadership Head of Department

Assessment

There will be three assessment aspects for this course:
1) apply two decision-making models to research and resolve an existing organisational challenge (45%) (LO2, 3, 4)
2) develop and implement a detailed change management process to implement the resulting decision. Course members will be required to show how principles of the Treaty of Waitangi can be translated into practices that are evidence based and culturally responsive in the strategic plan accompanying the assignment (45%). (LO5, 6)
3) Online forum participation (10%) (LO1)

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,775.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see School of Educational Studies and Leadership .

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