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Last updated: 4 June 2021
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Students will on average spend 150 hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit.
1 x 2 hour class per week, 1 x 1 hour seminar per week.
Learning experiences are via CloudDeakin plus 5 x 1 hour online seminars per trimester.
This unit examines the legislative, social, professional and economic parameters required in establishing and managing a construction firm. Students will investigate various innovative construction management approaches throughout the life cycle of a business. The focus will be on the management of a construction firm at a corporate level with topics such as ethics, strategy, finance, risks, negotiations and decision making.
Assess legislative, social, professional and economic parameters required in establishing a construction firm
GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilitiesGLO4: Critical thinking
Evaluate the nature and impact of a construction firm in social, business, political, ethical and environmental contexts
GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilitiesGLO4: Critical thinkingGLO5: Problem solving
Critically analyse the organisation of construction firms and the need for various management strategies to remain in the market place and operate profitably and ethically
GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilitiesGLO2: CommunicationGLO4: Critical thinking
Apply strategic and innovative commercial construction organisation principles to core business activities including expression of interests, tendering and hopefully winning a large complex construction project
GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilitiesGLO4: Critical thinkingGLO5: Problem solvingGLO6: Self-management
These Unit Learning Outcomes are applicable for all teaching periods throughout the year
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.
The texts and reading list for the unit can be found on the University Library via the link below: SRQ745 Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list. Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.
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