School: Arts and Humanities

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.

  • Unit Title

    Leadership and Management in Community Services
  • Unit Code

    CSV2115
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Hossein ADIBI

Description

This unit is designed to introduce students to administrative, management, self-management and leadership skills appropriate for those working in community-based and public service organisations. Students will gain an understanding of issues relating to leading and managing people. The unit considers the principles of quality assurance, organisational change and change management with particular reference to the role of graduates as agents of change. Leadership theories and characteristics are examined with an emphasis on developing graduates as leaders in the community.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded CBS2111, CBS4111, CSV3115, CSV4115

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Identify and analyse the key principles in the implementation of change in service systems and communities.
  2. Describe current policies and practices for ensuring quality assurance and accountability in community and public service organisations.
  3. Identify in the non government sector, the nature of various organisational forms, processes of decision making, patterns of power and management, access to information and organisation of work within those organisations.
  4. Describe current theories of leadership and personnel management, staff support, supervision and training.
  5. Apply theoretical perspectives, in particular an ecological framework, to crucial issues in leadership development and change.
  6. Critique the influence of microeconomic reform and managerialist policies on the operation of community and public service organisations.

Unit Content

  1. Managing change.
  2. Quality assurance and accountability across community and public service organisations.
  3. Organisational structures in community organisations and how these relate to decision making, problem solving, information flow and work organisation.
  4. Theories and characteristics of leadership and personnel management.
  5. Role and function of management and issues relating to management within community and public service organisations.
  6. Impact of microeconomic reform on community and public service organisations.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECUs LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 213 x 2 hour lectureNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 213 x 1 hour tutorialNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECUs LMS as well as additional ECU l

Additional Learning Experience Information

Guest lecturers

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
PresentationGroup presentation15%
ProjectStudy of a non government agency50%
EssayA critical analysis 35%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
PresentationGroup presentation15%
ProjectStudy of a non government agency50%
EssayA critical analysis35%

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 Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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School: Arts and Humanities

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.

  • Unit Title

    Leadership and Management in Community Services
  • Unit Code

    CSV2115
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Hossein ADIBI

Description

This unit is designed to introduce students to administrative, management, self-management and leadership skills appropriate for those working in community-based and public service organisations. Students will gain an understanding of issues relating to leading and managing people. The unit considers the principles of quality assurance, organisational change and change management with particular reference to the role of graduates as agents of change. Leadership theories and characteristics are examined with an emphasis on developing graduates as leaders in the community.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded CBS2111, CBS4111, CSV3115, CSV4115

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Identify and analyse the key principles in the implementation of change in service systems and communities.
  2. Describe current policies and practices for ensuring quality assurance and accountability in community and public service organisations.
  3. Identify in the non government sector, the nature of various organisational forms, processes of decision making, patterns of power and management, access to information and organisation of work within those organisations.
  4. Describe current theories of leadership and personnel management, staff support, supervision and training.
  5. Apply theoretical perspectives, in particular an ecological framework, to crucial issues in leadership development and change.
  6. Critique the influence of microeconomic reform and managerialist policies on the operation of community and public service organisations.

Unit Content

  1. Managing change.
  2. Quality assurance and accountability across community and public service organisations.
  3. Organisational structures in community organisations and how these relate to decision making, problem solving, information flow and work organisation.
  4. Theories and characteristics of leadership and personnel management.
  5. Role and function of management and issues relating to management within community and public service organisations.
  6. Impact of microeconomic reform on community and public service organisations.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECUs LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 213 x 2 hour lectureNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 213 x 1 hour tutorialNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECUs LMS as well as additional ECU l

Additional Learning Experience Information

Guest lecturers

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
PresentationGroup presentation15%
ProjectStudy of a non government agency50%
EssayA critical analysis 35%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
PresentationGroup presentation15%
ProjectStudy of a non government agency50%
EssayA critical analysis35%

Core Reading(s)

  • McDonald, C., Craik, C., Hawkins, L., & Williams, J. (2011). Professional practice in human service organisations. Crows Nest, Australia: Allen & Unwin. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/v2/oclc/1176298385

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 Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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