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Effective Stakeholder Engagement (MGMT90266)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5Online
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About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
- Timetable(opens in new window)
Contact information
Term 3
Email: continuing-education@unimelb.edu.au
Phone: + 61 3 8344 0149
Contact hours: https://unimelb.edu.au/professional-development/contact-us
Dr Andi Pekarek andreas.pekarek@unimelb.edu.au
Overview
Availability | Term 3 - Online |
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Fees | Look up fees |
Organizations are embedded within a complex network of internal and external stakeholder relationships – ranging from workers, investors, customers and suppliers to local communities, regulators, unions and other social movements. Because stakeholder interests differ, managers must be capable of reconciling these competing demands and interests to achieve sustainable outcomes. This subject examines how stakeholder management shapes organizational operations and strategic choices, and provides students with practical analytical tools and skills associated with effectively engaging stakeholders in a more sustainable way. Topics include: understanding the role and power stakeholders, stakeholder analysis and mapping, internal and external stakeholder relationships; stakeholder communication and influence, strategies for stakeholder engagement, dealing with stakeholder conflicts; managing difficult stakeholder relationships; building stakeholder coalitions for shared value.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this subject, students should be able to:
- Demonstrate an understanding of different types of stakeholders, stakeholder interests and stakeholder relationships that make up an organisation's stakeholder ecosystem.
- Explore how these stakeholder relationships can both hinder and help the organisation sustain competitive advantage.
- Examine, map and evaluate an organisation's stakeholder ecosystem and explore the impact of stakeholder relationship dynamics on organisational outcomes.
- Employ analytical tools and models to develop effective strategies for engaging different stakeholders and manage conflicts with and between stakeholders in an ethical way.
Generic skills
- Analyse and review stakeholder management-related problems, and use different tools, techniques and analytical models to unpack and solve them.
- Examine their own ideas and beliefs about how frontline managers can leverage stakeholder relationships to improve performance and compare them with the theories and observations of others.
- Appreciate how insights drawn from different sources of evidence and competing perspectives can be used to develop actionable insights for improving organizational outcomes
Last updated: 9 April 2024
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
None
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
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: 9 April 2024
Assessment
Description | Timing | Percentage |
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Participation (online discussion board conribution)
| Throughout the teaching period | 10% |
Individual assignment
| Week 4 | 40% |
Take home exam
| End of the teaching period | 50% |
Last updated: 9 April 2024
Dates & times
- Term 3 - Online
Principal coordinator Andi Pekarek Mode of delivery Online Contact hours 24 hours of online contact; 56 hours of case study analysis; 20 hours of online forum discussion activity; 70 hours of online activities, participation in simulations, and other management related analyses. Total time commitment 170 hours Pre teaching start date 12 July 2021 Pre teaching requirements .During the pre-teaching period, students should familiarise themselves with the learning platform and the subject requirements. Teaching period 19 July 2021 to 12 September 2021 Last self-enrol date 13 July 2021 Census date 6 August 2021 Last date to withdraw without fail 27 August 2021 Assessment period ends 19 September 2021 Term 3 contact information
Email: continuing-education@unimelb.edu.au
Phone: + 61 3 8344 0149
Contact hours: https://unimelb.edu.au/professional-development/contact-us
Dr Andi Pekarek andreas.pekarek@unimelb.edu.au
Last updated: 9 April 2024
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
There are no specifically prescribed or recommended texts for this subject.
Last updated: 9 April 2024