SOWK14006 - Professional Leadership in Human Services

General Information

Unit Synopsis

This unit provides you with an overview of the ideas and practices of contemporary management and leadership and relates these to social work practice. You should be able to critically analyse the role of social worker as a manager, evaluate management and leadership approaches, and explore alternative leadership strategies to assist in the integration of social work values and ethics alongside the role of the manager and specific agency requirements for the delivery of services. You should be able to propose leadership models appropriate to social work practice contexts and provide relevant strategies to promote social work values and ethics, and collaborative leadership. You will have opportunities in this unit to integrate your learning with experiences in the workplace or field education.

Details

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

Successful completion of 48 credit points and pre-requisite of SOWK13009 is required.

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

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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).

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. Written Assessment 40%
2. Group Discussion 30%
3. Group Work 30%

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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Previous Feedback

Term 1 - 2020 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 88.89% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 58.06% 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.

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Students enjoyed lecturer engagement through the unit and the range of learning materials and activities provided
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Continue to actively engage in the unit and provide a range of learning resources and activities to engage students in unit
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UC actively engaged with students to encourage learning by participating in forums.
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Students enjoyed the zoom sessions, particularly assessment zoom sessions.
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Continue to provide zoom sessions.
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Students reported to enjoy the content and readings.
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Continue to provide diverse learning activities and readings.
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Students reported that the content was relevant to their graduating and emerging professional identity.
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Continue to provide authentic learning opportunities and assessments.
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Unit learning Outcomes

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

  1. Critically evaluate contemporary approaches to management within organisations where social work is practised including the trends and theories influencing these approaches
  2. Propose a management plan appropriate to social work practice contexts that promotes the integration of social work values and ethics and collaborative leadership, including leadership approaches suitable for Indigenous and cross cultural contexts.
  3. Critically reflect on leadership qualities and skills and articulate insights gained for future social work practice.

Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
Assessment Tasks Learning Outcomes
1 2 3
1 - Written Assessment • •
2 - Group Discussion • • •
3 - Group Work •
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
• Introductory Level
• Intermediate Level
• Graduate Level
Graduate Attributes Learning Outcomes
1 2 3
1 - Communication • • • •
2 - Problem Solving • •
3 - Critical Thinking • • •
4 - Information Literacy • •
5 - Team Work • •
7 - Cross Cultural Competence • • •
8 - Ethical practice • • •
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
• Introductory Level
• Intermediate Level
• Graduate Level
Assessment Tasks Graduate Attributes
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