School: Arts and Humanities

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  • Unit Title

    Leadership and Management in Community Services
  • Unit Code

    CSV2115
  • Year

    2025
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    3
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    A/Prof Vicki BANHAM

Description

This unit is designed to introduce students to 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. Explain theories of leadership and management in the context of community-based and public service organisations.
  2. Outline issues relating to how leadership, organisational change management and governance apply to community-based and public service organisations.
  3. Present theoretical concepts to a broad audience creatively.
  4. Apply leadership theories to community and public service scenarios to implement social and ethical values.

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.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Guest lecturers from the field

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
PresentationPresentation40%
Case StudyWritten analysis and recommendation in response to a case60%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
PresentationPresentation40%
Case StudyWritten analysis and recommendation in response to a case60%

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.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

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 as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. 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 or generative artificial intelligence tools, 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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