MGMT19128 - Strategy and Change

General Information

Unit Synopsis

Strategy and Change is a capstone unit in the Bachelor of Business. Organisational strategy and change is increasingly becoming important in a highly competitive business environment. In this capstone unit, you will explore the process used in strategy formulation and implementation and consider how decisions are made to effectively implement change. You will assess how internal and external pressures influence decision making and the subsequent formulation and implementation of strategy and change in a range of different types of organisations. The unit examines how organisations align resources in setting strategy and mechanisms deployed to review performance. You will also gain insights on the importance of risk management in strategy implementation and change process.

Details

Level Undergraduate
Unit Level 3
Credit Points 6
Student Contribution Band SCA Band 4
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load 0.125
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites

Completion of 48 credit points in first year of study

Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).

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Unit Availabilities from Term 3 - 2024

Term 1 - 2025 Profile
Brisbane
Melbourne
Online
Rockhampton
Sydney
Term 2 - 2025 Profile
Brisbane
Melbourne
Online
Rockhampton
Sydney

Attendance Requirements

All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes - in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).

Assessment Overview

Recommended Student Time Commitment

Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.

Assessment Tasks

Assessment Task Weighting
1. Case Study 40%
2. Presentation and Written Assessment 60%

This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%).

Consult the University's Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades

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Previous Feedback

Term 2 - 2024 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 100.00% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 16.67% response rate.

Feedback, Recommendations and Responses

Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.

Source: SUTE Teacher Evaluations
Feedback
Great course, extremely well organised and thorough.
Recommendation
The new Moodle 'tile' structure certainly helps navigate to where information is readily accessible.
Action Taken
The unit profile remains the central source of all guidance for the unit. The Tile structure enables this to be more readily accessible.
Source: SUTE Teacher Evaluations
Feedback
I really enjoyed this subject and gained a lot of practical knowledge from it.
Recommendation
Discussing current and emerging strategic issues for organisations highlights how relevant the conceptual frameworks can be to understanding the dynamics at play.
Action Taken
Public companies trading in Australia or overseas are large scale enterprises. Strategic challenges are constantly emerging and provide for interesting critical application of conceptual frameworks in strategy and change.
Source: SUTE Teacher Evaluations
Feedback
My main feedback would be to reduce the group numbers in Assignment #2 to no more than three (3). [This] would ensure the content flows better and provides a more cohesive report. [In larger groups] some tend to rely on others to do the heavy lifting.
Recommendation
Group work can be very challenging when some members don't contribute equally. This can also happen in workplaces, but mechanisms generally exist to deal with that. For the final assignment, I will endeavor to restrict group size between 3 to 4 students; splitting larger groups into smaller ones to facilitate equitable contribution.
Action Taken
Overall, group sizes have been limited to 4 students. Some extenuating circumstances will vary this.
Source: SUTE Teacher Evaluations
Feedback
Malcolm is a wonderful orator and conversationalist. Not that I was able to attend any of the workshops live (due to work commitments). I watched all of the recorded workshops and lectures and very much enjoyed the conversations he and other students would have around real-time events happening in the business world and how these situations could directly relate to the topic of the week.
Recommendation
This is very generous feedback, thank you. I am very pleased that my enthusiasm for the subject area and student interest in workshop discussions are well received. It's also great to hear that the recordings support asynchronous 'participation' and revisiting of material as needed.
Action Taken
In future delivery, a rethink of recorded lectures might provide vignettes on specific topics within each week. It is hoped that this may make asynchronous access even easier and more convenient.
Source: SUTE Teacher Evaluations
Feedback
Thoroughly enjoyed the classes and unit materials. Well organised and examples used in discussions were always the latest content on the subject. Fantastic term, thank you.
Recommendation
The business media provide interesting commentary but might limit a full understanding of a situation. The real value of this is to affirm the importance of critical thinking skills that look more deeply at the strategic issues and to consider the likely outcomes from decisions taken.
Action Taken
The business media challenge all to think more deeply about underlying issues that may not be reported well-enough. The conceptual frameworks provide robust structures to frame analysis and search for the dynamic interplay of strategic issues beyond the media rhetoric.
Source: External university peer review of MGMT19128
Feedback
The authentic assessments are well-designed and relate to real-life industry scenarios.
Recommendation
Maintain the strategic focus on industry challenges, supported by industry speakers where possible.
Action Taken
In Progress
Source: External university peer review of MGMT19128
Feedback
Both assessments offer students the opportunity to reflect on the interrelationships between the knowledge, theory and practice they have learned in the unit.
Recommendation
Conceptual frameworks support robust analysis of emerging strategic issues for industry.
Action Taken
In Progress
Source: External university peer review of MGMT19128
Feedback
The assessment instructions are clear and are complemented by a rubric which explicitly sets out the tasks required.
Recommendation
Clarity of assessment tasks is also complemented by weekly workshop discussions that apply relevant frameworks.
Action Taken
In Progress
Source: External university peer review of MGMT19128
Feedback
Effective curriculum delivery: The positive student feedback regarding the course coordinator/lecturer is pleasing to read and strongly evidences the high teaching quality.
Recommendation
Strategy and Change is a dynamic field of professional practice. Knowledge and skills acquired in the unit will be extremely useful for career development.
Action Taken
In Progress
Source: External university peer review of MGMT19128
Feedback
The strategic plan is a sophisticated assessment task providing students a real-world opportunity to analyse and interpret multi-concept issues as well as provide recommendations by drawing on relevant theories.
Recommendation
The complexity of strategic analysis is more easily understood through the application of validated frameworks and critical analysis. These strategic management skills are essential for companies to prosper in challenging conditions.
Action Taken
In Progress
Unit learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:

  1. Analyse strategy, planning and decision making processes in organisations
  2. Evaluate and identify internal and external pressures that inform strategy and change to the business model
  3. Undertake scenario analysis, assess risks, and align resources to achieve key priorities
  4. Assess how organisations use strategy in change management process
  5. Analyse how performance targets and key measures are set, monitored and improved at organisational, functional and individual level.


Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
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Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
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