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Unit Synopsis
Organisations require professionals to play a major role in innovation. Innovation is one of the key strengths which organisations require to remain competitive. This unit focuses on developing your ability to undertake independent research that contributes to innovation in organisations. The unit will improve your skills in synthesising information and developing solutions to improve the long-term effectiveness of organisations. You will be required to select an organisational problem related to innovation and provide practical recommendations based on rigorous analysis. This will require research of business models, processes, products and services.
Details
| Level | Postgraduate |
|---|---|
| Unit Level | 9 |
| Credit Points | 6 |
| Student Contribution Band | SCA Band 4 |
| Fraction of Full-Time Student Load | 0.125 |
| Pre-requisites or Co-requisites |
This is a capstone unit for students completing a coursework based masters. Hence students must have completed 10 master level units (60 credit points) of study prior to enrolment. 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). |
| Class Timetable | View Unit Timetable |
| Residential School | No Residential School |
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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).
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Postgraduate 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. Research Proposal | 40% |
| 2. Research Assignment | 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%).
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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: Reflection on Student Performance Data
Students who complete the unit in online mode are struggling to achieve high marks
Monitor the delivery of the unit in T3 2024 to ensure that students are getting the same level of support and are able to engage with the unit in the same way as on campus students.
The delivery of the unit was monitored in T3, and students were being provided with the same, if not more, support than students who complete the unit online. The issue mostly seemed to be that without face-to-face classes, students found it harder to remain focused on their research project, which meant they left it too late to start/work on it, and as a result, their final projects were not as well presented.
Source: Unit Coordinator Reflection
The UN SDGs form a major part of the unit focus, but these SDGs will be reaching the end of their timeframe in 2030. The unit should be prepared well ahead of that time to shift to a different focus.
Begin the process of considering alternative measures of impact that may be useful to incorporate into the unit over the next few years as the UN SDGs approach the end of their timeframe.
Consideration has been given to this, however, no final determination has been made regarding what could serve as an alternative to the SDGs at this point. It is likely that the UN will develop new goals at some point over the next 3-4 years, so it may be a matter of waiting to see what they come up with.
Source: Unit coordinator reflection
Continue to monitor T3 enrolments
Determine if there is a way to boost engagement in the distance mode offering of the unit to prevent students disengaging and impacting their ability to complete a high quality research project.
In Progress
Source: Unit coordinator reflection
As new measures of impact start to become available, begin the process of incorporating alternatives to the SDGs
Continue monitoring media releases regarding the future beyond the SDGs, particularly from the UN in relation to future goals they may set.
In Progress
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
- Demonstrate an integrated understanding of the dynamic nature of innovation in organisations
- Identify strategic challenges and imperatives whilst building skills in good practices related to innovation in organisations
- Undertake independent research related to innovation and develop analytical skills to assist in future planning for an organisation
- Communicate information in an organisational context by providing recommendations that address strategic challenges related to innovation.
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| 1 - Research Proposal | • | • | ||
| 2 - Research Assignment | • | • | ||
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| 1 - Knowledge | • | • | • | • |
| 2 - Communication | • | • | • | • |
| 3 - Cognitive, technical and creative skills | • | • | • | • |
| 4 - Research | • | • | • | • |
| 5 - Self-management | • | • | • | • |
| 6 - Ethical and Professional Responsibility | • | • | • | • |
| 7 - Leadership | • | • | • | • |
| Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 8 | |
| 1 - Research Proposal | • | • | • | • | • | ||||
| 2 - Research Assignment | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | ||