Program Overview

ENM509 Managing Projects and Resources

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 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 of 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

Subject Information

Grading System

HD/FL

Duration

One session

School

School of Environmental Sciences

Subject Relationships

• ENM309 Paired Subject

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 management: budget and analysis of financial statements
• project management
• professional practice