ENM509 Managing Projects and Resources (8)

This subject focuses on the critical performance outcomes, skills, and knowledge required to work effectively within an organisation or business environment. Its focus is teaching critical and strategic thinking regarding the allocation of resources, quality assurance, and project management. It is conducted as a role play where students apply their prior learning in environmental studies to the cut and thrust of day to day management. As such it is a capstone subject (i.e. a subject that integrates your prior learning in other subjects) and should be taken towards the end of a student's candidature. There is no residential school associated with the subject and on completion, students have a range of administrative skills and an in-depth understanding what it means to be a professional in terms of their vocational aspirations.

Availability

Session 2 (60)
Online
Albury-Wodonga Campus
Session 3 (90)
Online
Albury-Wodonga Campus

Continuing students should consult the SAL for current offering details: ENM509. Where differences exist between the Handbook and the SAL, the SAL should be taken as containing the correct subject offering details.

Subject Information

Grading System

HD/FL

Duration

One session

School

School of Environmental Sciences

Incompatible Subjects

ENM309, PKM201, PKM309, PKM372

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this subject, students should:
  • be able to demonstrate a broad understanding of the concepts and principles of human resource management including the techniques of human resource planning, staff selection and recruitment, and performance appraisal
  • be able to critically describe how processes such as policy development, asset management, risk assessment, and ethics can be applied to quality assurance
  • be able to demonstrate the knowledge and skills required to create a budget and to analyse financial statements
  • be able to manage a project and be an effective member of a project team
  • be able to describe what it means to be a professional in terms of their vocational aspirations

Syllabus

This subject will cover the following topics:
  • strategic planning for an organisation
  • techniques of human resource planning, staff selection and recruitment, and performance appraisal
  • dimensions of quality assurance: policy development, asset management, and risk assessment, and ethics
  • financial managment: budget and analysis of financial statements
  • project management
  • professional practice

Indicative Assessment

The following table summarises the assessment tasks for the online offering of ENM509 in Session 2 2019. Please note this is a guide only. Assessment tasks are regularly updated and can also differ to suit the mode of study (online or on campus).

Item Number
Title
Value %
1
Human resource management
25
2
Designing control systems at various scales
30
3
Projects planning and resourcing
30
4
The project management lifecycle
15

The information contained in the CSU Handbook was accurate at the date of publication: October 2020. The University reserves the right to vary the information at any time without notice.

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