School: Business and Law

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Management Project
  • Unit Code

    BUS6500
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Prof Pi-shen SEET

Description

In this unit students complete a work-based, consulting, or applied research project designed to enhance organisational, entrepreneurial and innovative capability within an organisation in the private, public or not-for-profit sectors under academic and/or industry supervision. The aim of the unit is to assist students in developing a practical appreciation of their field of study through integrating the material covered in the discipline course and applying their knowledge and skills to unstructured, authentic problems in work settings. To accomplish this aim, students complete a specific discipline based project over the entire semester on a topic negotiated between the student, academic supervisor and/ or the industry specialists with the client organisation. The project must focus on the demonstration of selected competencies as relevant to the student's particular course or specialisation.

Prerequisite Rule

Must have completed a minimum of 60 credit points.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply advanced discipline based skills, knowledge, practices and behaviours in the context of the organisation and a specific project task.
  2. Generate and evaluate complex ideas, information and concepts in the specific management discipline.
  3. Design and deliver a business strategy, innovation, enhancement, or improvement initiative that enhances organisational capability.
  4. Critically reflect on current capability and identify future professional development needs.

Unit Content

  1. Recognise and assess strategic opportunities;
  2. Execute processes required to conduct professional quality industry and market analysis;
  3. Apply fact-based and intuitive abilities to foresee and manage strategic implementation and control issues;
  4. Understand the range and depth of professional and interpersonal skills required to conduct professional-quality projects;
  5. Assess the dynamics of team-building and effectiveness of teams.

Learning Experience

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

Additional Learning Experience Information

This unit provides an applied learning experience that consolidates learning in the postgraduate program as well as producing useful results for real organisations. Students must complete their project on an approved public, private or non-profit organisation or within their own work or study environment working on their specific discipline-relevant project. The unit is highly interactive and will be conducted under the guidance of both academics and industry specialists. The unit aims to integrate knowledge acquired over each students degree studies and, the application of that knowledge to live client / industry engagements, and resulting in the provision of evidence-supported business solutions that are actionable. The teaching methods include seminars, group discussion using creative and critical thinking techniques, and collaboration with business professionals and practitioners from Australia and around the world. Students will be required to present their work in progress to an independent advisory panel for feedback and comments as a part of their learning experience. Management Project clients will be provided with an interim research presentation, and a final strategic plan and presentation. Compulsory classroom seminars will all contribute to the sequential building of the various client deliverables as this unit relies upon dynamic interaction with a live and often changeable client engagement context. In between these sessions, students will work independently to undertake their project and will be expected to communicate regularly and consult with the Unit Coordinator, in face to face meetings or by phone or through the unit's LMS site. Through undertaking their project, students will be expected to effectively perform and meet the needs of their assigned organisation, as well as complete the unit's assessment requirements. Students are expected to work collaboratively in groups, autonomously, show initiative and generate ideas relating to their assigned tasks in the workplace. Industry specialists and the unit coordinator will liaise on student progress towards achieving learning outcomes during the project period. Students may be required to participate in an induction on the requirements and procedures for completing a work-based project, including documentation and risk management compliance.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentIndividual Project Tool Paper20%
ProjectManagement research presentation30%
ProjectProject ReportManagement research presentation Management project full report and summary presentation 50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentIndividual Project Tool Paper20%
ProjectManagement research presentation30%
ProjectManagement project full report and summary presentation50%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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School: Business and Law

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Management Project
  • Unit Code

    BUS6500
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Prof Pi-shen SEET

Description

In this unit students complete a work-based, consulting, or applied research project designed to enhance organisational, entrepreneurial and innovative capability within an organisation in the private, public or not-for-profit sectors under academic and/or industry supervision. The aim of the unit is to assist students in developing a practical appreciation of their field of study through integrating the material covered in the discipline course and applying their knowledge and skills to unstructured, authentic problems in work settings. To accomplish this aim, students complete a specific discipline based project over the entire semester on a topic negotiated between the student, academic supervisor and/ or the industry specialists with the client organisation. The project must focus on the demonstration of selected competencies as relevant to the student's particular course or specialisation.

Prerequisite Rule

Must have completed a minimum of 60 credit points.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply advanced discipline based skills, knowledge, practices and behaviours in the context of the organisation and a specific project task.
  2. Generate and evaluate complex ideas, information and concepts in the specific management discipline.
  3. Design and deliver a business strategy, innovation, enhancement, or improvement initiative that enhances organisational capability.
  4. Critically reflect on current capability and identify future professional development needs.

Unit Content

  1. Recognise and assess strategic opportunities;
  2. Execute processes required to conduct professional quality industry and market analysis;
  3. Apply fact-based and intuitive abilities to foresee and manage strategic implementation and control issues;
  4. Understand the range and depth of professional and interpersonal skills required to conduct professional-quality projects;
  5. Assess the dynamics of team-building and effectiveness of teams.

Learning Experience

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

Additional Learning Experience Information

This unit provides an applied learning experience that consolidates learning in the postgraduate program as well as producing useful results for real organisations. Students must complete their project on an approved public, private or non-profit organisation or within their own work or study environment working on their specific discipline-relevant project. The unit is highly interactive and will be conducted under the guidance of both academics and industry specialists. The unit aims to integrate knowledge acquired over each students degree studies and, the application of that knowledge to live client / industry engagements, and resulting in the provision of evidence-supported business solutions that are actionable. The teaching methods include seminars, group discussion using creative and critical thinking techniques, and collaboration with business professionals and practitioners from Australia and around the world. Students will be required to present their work in progress to an independent advisory panel for feedback and comments as a part of their learning experience. Management Project clients will be provided with an interim research presentation, and a final strategic plan and presentation. Compulsory classroom seminars will all contribute to the sequential building of the various client deliverables as this unit relies upon dynamic interaction with a live and often changeable client engagement context. In between these sessions, students will work independently to undertake their project and will be expected to communicate regularly and consult with the Unit Coordinator, in face to face meetings or by phone or through the unit's LMS site. Through undertaking their project, students will be expected to effectively perform and meet the needs of their assigned organisation, as well as complete the unit's assessment requirements. Students are expected to work collaboratively in groups, autonomously, show initiative and generate ideas relating to their assigned tasks in the workplace. Industry specialists and the unit coordinator will liaise on student progress towards achieving learning outcomes during the project period. Students may be required to participate in an induction on the requirements and procedures for completing a work-based project, including documentation and risk management compliance.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentIndividual Project Tool Paper20%
ProjectManagement research presentation30%
ProjectProject ReportManagement research presentation Management project full report and summary presentation 50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentIndividual Project Tool Paper20%
ProjectManagement research presentation30%
ProjectManagement project full report and summary presentation50%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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