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.

Please note that given the circumstances of COVID-19, there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for Semester 1 2020 Units. Students will be notified of all approved modifications by Unit Coordinators via email and Unit Blackboard sites. Where changes have been made, these are designed to ensure that you still meet the unit learning outcomes in the context of our adjusted teaching and learning arrangements.

  • Unit Title

    Corporate Communication, Issues and Crises
  • Unit Code

    PRN3223
  • Year

    2020
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mr James Leslie HALL

Description

Corporate Communications, Issues and Crises focuses on how organisations communicate and develop relationships with internal and external stakeholders to build positive reputations and create favourable operating environments. It examines why companies must embrace contemporary practices to amplify their brand values and how strategic, proactive communication needs to be embedded in the corporate DNA. This unit also examines the management challenges and opportunities that come with the issues and crises that every organisation invariably faces during through evolution.

Equivalent Rule

Unit is a combination of PRN3123 and PRN3124

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Identify the factors affecting communication in management/administration contexts via the application of public relations theory.
  2. Develop and evaluate campaign solutions through an issues and risk management perspective to issues and crises represented in the media.
  3. Analyse ways in which community interests in the environment and consumer areas manifest in and influence organisations.
  4. Apply relevant codes of ethics, as well as corporate and social responsibility to internal and external public relations strategies and processes.
  5. Develop and apply a range of strategies for strengthening relations with internal and external publics, both supportive and hostile, in managing issues and crises.

Unit Content

  1. Environmental scanning to identify issues, evaluate data sources and the reliability of information.
  2. Case studies of relevant public relations issues at the local, national and international levels will be analysed including the growth and spread of public issues.
  3. Issues management and its component steps.
  4. Managing external relationships to protect and improve corporate reputation.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 1Not Offered13 x 1 hour lectureNot Offered
Semester 1Not Offered13 x 2 hour tutorialNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures. Tutorials.

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 Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
TestKnowledge test via Blackboard20%
ReportIssues evaluation and report40%
ProjectCrisis strategy (group) and peer reflection40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
TestKnowledge test via Blackboard20%
ReportIssues evaluation and report40%
ProjectCrisis strategy (group) and peer reflection40%

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.

PRN3223|2|1

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.

Please note that given the circumstances of COVID-19, there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for this unit. All assessment changes will be published by 27 July 2020. All students are reminded to check handbook at the beginning of semester to ensure they have the correct outline.

  • Unit Title

    Corporate Communication, Issues and Crises
  • Unit Code

    PRN3223
  • Year

    2020
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mr James Leslie HALL

Description

Corporate Communications, Issues and Crises focuses on how organisations communicate and develop relationships with internal and external stakeholders to build positive reputations and create favourable operating environments. It examines why companies must embrace contemporary practices to amplify their brand values and how strategic, proactive communication needs to be embedded in the corporate DNA. This unit also examines the management challenges and opportunities that come with the issues and crises that every organisation invariably faces during through evolution.

Equivalent Rule

Unit is a combination of PRN3123 and PRN3124

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Identify the factors affecting communication in management/administration contexts via the application of public relations theory.
  2. Develop and evaluate campaign solutions through an issues and risk management perspective to issues and crises represented in the media.
  3. Analyse ways in which community interests in the environment and consumer areas manifest in and influence organisations.
  4. Apply relevant codes of ethics, as well as corporate and social responsibility to internal and external public relations strategies and processes.
  5. Develop and apply a range of strategies for strengthening relations with internal and external publics, both supportive and hostile, in managing issues and crises.

Unit Content

  1. Environmental scanning to identify issues, evaluate data sources and the reliability of information.
  2. Case studies of relevant public relations issues at the local, national and international levels will be analysed including the growth and spread of public issues.
  3. Issues management and its component steps.
  4. Managing external relationships to protect and improve corporate reputation.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 1Not Offered13 x 1 hour lectureNot Offered
Semester 1Not Offered13 x 2 hour tutorialNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures. Tutorials.

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 Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
TestKnowledge test via Blackboard20%
ReportIssues evaluation and report40%
ProjectCrisis strategy (group) and peer reflection40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
TestKnowledge test via Blackboard20%
ReportIssues evaluation and report40%
ProjectCrisis strategy (group) and peer reflection40%

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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