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Management and Leadership for Engineers (ENGM90015)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5On Campus (Parkville)
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About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
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Contact information
Please refer to the LMS for up-to-date subject information, including assessment and participation requirements, for subjects being offered in 2020.
Overview
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AIMS
This unit is for students to develop themselves through a better understanding of the theories important to engineering leadership and management practice. The focus of the unit is to integrate leadership and management theory and practice in the context of the real life professional engineering role in organisational and industrial settings.
Intended learning outcomes
INTENDED LEARNING OUTCOMES
At the completion of this subject, students are expected to:
- Have developed an appreciation and understanding of management skills needed by engineers to better develop and manage the implementation of solutions
- Be able to understand the consequences of the above solutions and their implementation on an organization’s financial, physical and human resources
- Have enhanced their management skills such as communication, negotiation, staff motivation, and development and performance management so they can execute the above solutions through others.
Generic skills
After completing this unit the student is expected to -
- Understand different roles and role expectations of engineers and managers
- Understand the purpose of management
- Apply key management and leadership concepts and techniques that relate to communication, negotiation, staff motivation, development and performance management in an engineering context
- Identify and execute the activities involved in the planning, organising and controlling functions of management
- Understand the importance of interpersonal communication and how this influences relationships
- Identify their own psychological and emotional responses to stressful organisational contexts and to better manage these responses
- Understand how different leadership and management practices shape an organisation's performance culture
- Understand the difficulty of attributing business success to any single management activity, and demonstrate an ability to analyse complex business problems; and communicate these ideas in a coherent and critically aware manner to key stakeholders
- Better integrate 'self' into the team management and leadership processes of an organisation.
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
None
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
Students cannot enrol in and gain credit for this sujbect and MGMT90004 Organisational Behaviour or MCEN90010 Finance & Human Resources for Engineers.
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Assessment
Due to the impact of COVID-19, assessment may differ from that published in the Handbook. Students are reminded to check the subject assessment requirements published in the subject outline on the LMS
Description | Timing | Percentage |
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Personal diary. Addresses Intended Learning Outcome (ILO) 1
| From Week 1 to Week 10 | 10% |
Class attendance and engagement in all tutorials. Addresses ILOs 1 and 2. | Throughout the teaching period | 10% |
Group assignment of 2,500 words and brief oral presentation. Assignment due and presentation assessed within weeks 7 to 12. Addresses ILO 2
| From Week 7 to Week 12 | 30% |
One end of semester examination. Addresses ILOs 1, 2 and 3.
| During the examination period | 50% |
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Dates & times
- Semester 1
Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 48 contact hours Total time commitment 200 hours Teaching period 2 March 2020 to 7 June 2020 Last self-enrol date 13 March 2020 Census date 30 April 2020 Last date to withdraw without fail 5 June 2020 Assessment period ends 3 July 2020
Time commitment details
200 hours
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
TBA
Recommended texts and other resources
Schermerhorn, Davidson, Poole, Woods, Simon and McBarron, Management, 5th Asian-Pacific Edition, (2014) Wiley.
- Subject notes
LEARNING AND TEACHING METHODS
In this subject, these skills will be developed through an integration of theory and practice, using case studies to illustrate situations that confront professional engineers.
- Related Handbook entries
This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Course Master of Engineering Management Course Doctor of Philosophy - Engineering Course Ph.D.- Engineering Course Master of Philosophy - Engineering - Available through the Community Access Program
About the Community Access Program (CAP)
This subject is available through the Community Access Program (also called Single Subject Studies) which allows you to enrol in single subjects offered by the University of Melbourne, without the commitment required to complete a whole degree.
Entry requirements including prerequisites may apply. Please refer to the CAP applications page for further information.
Last updated: 3 November 2022