1997 Swinburne Higher Education Handbook

Dunford, R. Organisational Behaviour - an Organisational Analysis
Perspective, Addison-Wesley, Sydney, 1992
Frost, P. et a1 (Eds) Managm'al Reality: Balancing Technique,
Practice and Values, Scott Foresman, 1990
Hirschorn, L. Managing in the New Team Environment, Addison
Wesley, 1991
Morgan, G. Imaginization, Sage, Beverley Hills LA, 1993
BH606 Culture and Conflict in Organisations
4 hours per week Hawthorn Prerequisite: BHJOJ, BHJ06
Assessment: papers and interview analysis
A subject in the Graduate Diploma course in Organisation
Behaviour.
Obiectives and Content
The subject introduces students to current theory and
practice associated with organisation culture as a prelude to
managing conflict and change. It examines the fundamental
elements and dynamics of organisation culture. Participants
are required to analyse an organisation in terms of its culture
and assess, given that culture, how conflict and change might
be more effectively managed. The subject is tightly
sequenced with the following subject BH607 Leadership and
Change in Organisations.
Recommended reading
Participants will be given extensive handouts and these will be
used as a basis for class discussion and accompanying experiential
activities.
BH607 Leadership and Change in
Organisations
4 hours per week Hawthorn Prerequisite:.BH606
Assessment: fieldwork project in small groups (cultural
analysis)
A subject in the Graduate Diploma course in Organisation
Behaviour
Objectives and Content
This subject has three specific points of focus:
leadership and systems theory;
leadership and psychodynamics;
leadership and transformation.
It is assumed that leaders need to know about the influences
which create change and the processes necessary to produce
a transformation rather than a rearrawement. This will be
linked to change. Exploration will be made of static states,
disequilibrium, transformation and flow states. Change
agent skills will also be explored.
Recommended reading
Participants will be given extensive handouts.
BH609 Organisational Psychology II
2 hours per week Hawthorn Prerequisite: BHJ08
Organisational Psychology I. Assessment: individual and
group
A subject in the Graduate Diploma course in Business
Administration
Objectives and Content
This subject complements BH508 Organisational
Psychology I which is taken in the first year. The overall
theme of the subject is the 'learning organisation' which
serves to connect and integrate them. It is intended that they
be viewed as a developing whole.
OP I1 emphasises organisation theory, dynamics and images.
The focus is on the individual and or~anisation dynamics.
The class itself will be a learning organisation wiihin the
context of the GDBA system.
Assessment will involve action learning projects relevant to
the workelace. Theorv will be aeelied to eractice. The
1.
subject will recognise the systemic interdependence of
organisational dynamics with BM603 Business Policy.
Sub-themes of leadership, managing, changing and ethics
will be continually explored.
Recommended reading
Bolman, L. and Deal, T., Refiaming Organisations, Jossey Bass,
San Francisco, Calif.,1991
Morgan, G., Images of Organization, Beverley Hills, Calif., Sage,
1986
Senge, P., The Fifth Discipline, The Art and Practice of the Learning
Organisation, London, Century Business, 1992
BH706 Management 1 (People and
Organisations)
2 hoursper week Hawthorn Prerequisite: nil
Assessment: to be advised
A subject in the Master of Business Administration
As part of the subject, all candidates must successfully
complete an introductory four day residential seminar
concerned with the behaviour of people in small groups and
providing an orientation to the learning process, the course
themes, the staff and expectations of work and outcomes.
Objectives
Strategic management requires the direction and control
of means as well as ends. This subject is concerned with
the effective management of the human and
organisational means aspect of a strategic plan.
People, their behaviour in organisations, and their
management within organisations, are fundamental to
the success of any business. The basic objective of this
subject is to provide knowledge and practical skills
necessary for managing people and a knowledge of the
implications of organisational design options. The
course will examine how to develop proactive attitudes
towards innovation, technology and internationalism in
business and organisational structures for the
articulation of these attitudes.
Specific objectives include:
to provide a conceptual framework for the analysis of
the behaviour and management of people in
organisations;
to enable students to analyse and understand behaviour
and problems of people, both in small groups and in
whole organisations;
to consider organisational design options and their
impact on the effective implementation of strategies;
to place the skills and themes of the MBA into a human
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