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Managing Resources for High Performance (MGMT90271)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5Not available in 2021
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Overview
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Front-line leaders play a critical role at the interface between organisational systems and policies designed to drive efficiency and performance management teams, such as lean and agile, and the task of implementing them. This challenge requires an understanding of both the technical and human dimension required to effectively manage resources and systems, including the challenge of leading individuals and teams through organisational change required to maintain and improve performance. This subject brings together an understanding of this task as both a technical and a human problem in contemporary workplaces where disruptive events, technologies and business models require front-line managers to adapt and develop collective agility within teams to maintain performance and sustain competitive advantage. Topics considered will include core front line operations, such as sourcing strategies, resource management, technologies and projects management, and team leadership dimensions of high performance teams, including team structure and roles, team and individual performance management, team dynamics and leadership and addressing team and individual under-performance.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this subject, students should be able to:
- Develop a critical appreciation of the interaction of the technical and human dimensions associated with managing resources for efficiency and performance.
- Examine and evaluate critical choices involved in undertaking key operational tasks associated with frontline management, including sourcing, continuous improvement, disruptive technologies, and project management.
- Explore the interaction of individuals within team settings and the impact of those dynamics on team dynamics and functioning, performance management the task of frontline management.
- Analyse how technical and social dimensions of work shape the challenge of leading high performance teams.
Generic skills
- Analyse and review resourcing and performance-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 resources and people 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 team and workplace performance.
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 in class and online discussions and activities | From Week 1 to Week 8 | 10% |
Weekly case/problem analysis (8 x 250 words)
| From Week 1 to Week 8 | 40% |
Take Home Exam (3 Days) (equivalent of 2500 words) Hurdle requirement: Successful completion of this subject requires a pass (50%) in the final exam. | End of semester | 50% |
Last updated: 9 April 2024
Dates & times
Not available in 2021
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