HPS727 - Organisational Intervention Strategies and Skills

Unit details

Year:

2024 unit information

Enrolment modes:Trimester 1: Burwood (Melbourne)
Credit point(s):1
EFTSL value:0.125
Unit Chair:Trimester 1: Arlene Walker
Cohort rule:This unit is only available to students enrolled in H752
Prerequisite:

Nil

Corequisite:Nil
Incompatible with: Nil
Typical study commitment:

Students will on average spend 150 hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit.

This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site.

Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - on-campus unit enrolment:

1 x 3 hour lecture and 1 x 3 hour seminar per fortnight.
The majority of these lectures and seminars will be on-campus (with a maximum of 2 lectures and 2 seminars held online).

Content

This unit is concerned with the development of practical skills required to deliver individual and group-based interventions within the workplace. These skills include collecting and integrating information, then selecting and implementing appropriate intervention strategies. EAP intervention counselling skills will also be developed. Intervention strategies and skills to be learnt relate to topics such as team functioning, and dark tetrad personalities at work.

ULO These are the Learning Outcomes (ULO) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can: Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes

ULO1

Analyse and assess organisational issues at the individual, group and organisational levels.

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO3: Digital literacy
GLO4: Critical thinking
GLO5: Problem solving

ULO2

Select and use appropriate interventions for cultural and interprofessional diverse audiences, including consideration of interprofessional collaboration to improve intervention outcomes.

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO3: Digital literacy
GLO4: Critical thinking
GLO5: Problem solving
GLO8: Global citizenship

ULO3

Develop intervention skills and confidently use these skills in implementing appropriate organisational interventions.

GLO2: Communication
GLO5: Problem solving

ULO4

Critically assess appropriate organisational digital literature and resources to design suitable interventions based on organisational client needs, including consideration of interprofessional collaboration to improve intervention outcomes.

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO3: Digital literacy
GLO4: Critical thinking
GLO5: Problem solving
GLO8: Global citizenship

ULO5

Critically evaluate interprofessional organisational interventions.

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO4: Critical thinking
GLO7: Teamwork

ULO6

Work effectively in a team environment by negotiating and delegating tasks so as to meet assessment aims and objectives.

GLO2: Communication
GLO6: Self-management
GLO7: Teamwork

Assessment

Trimester 1:

Assessment description

Student output

Grading and weighting
(% total mark for unit)

Indicative due week

Assessment 1: EAP role play

30 minute role-play video

Pass/Fail

  • Week 7

Assessment 2: Case study in action

30 minute in-class group presentation

Pass/Fail

  • Week 11

Assessment 3: Organisation intervention proposal

3000 words

Pass/Fail

  • End-of-unit assessment period

This unit is an ungraded pass/ungraded fail only. All assessments must be passed in order for the unit to be passed.

The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.

Learning Resource

There is no prescribed text. Unit materials are provided via the unit site. This includes unit topic readings and references to further information.

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