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Increase your career opportunities with a Graduate Certificate in Organisational Resilience.In an ever-changing world, the resilience of organisations is constantly challenged and tested. Whether its natural disasters as a result of natural hazards, global pandemics, financial crises, or human threats such as cyber-attacks, leaders need to be equipped to solve these challenges and lead their organisations forward.The Graduate Certificate in Organisational Resilience aims to develop independent and knowledgeable practitioners who are leaders in organisational resilience. With a strong reputation in resilience research and access to national and international industry partners from the public, private and not-for-profit sectors, the Graduate Certificate in Organisational Resilience will develop students’ theoretical knowledge and practitioner-relevant skills.The course is designed for those seeking to promote and implement change across a range of organisations that include those from the public, private and not-for-profit sectors. Students will develop knowledge of contemporary organisational resilience theory and evidence-based practices that can be applied to their current or future roles in organisational resilience, crisis management, protective security and/or business continuity management.

A postgraduate business course to develop leadership skills in crisis and continuity management. Learn to guide organisations to adapt and evolve. With the support of theoretical knowledge, you’ll be prepared to tackle business threats and challenges.

Graduate Certificate in Organisational Resilience

Strategic Management

Leadership and Change Management

Financial Accountability and Management

Entrepreneurship

Accounting for Managers

Leading People

Emergency Management Policy and Governance

Creative Entrepreneur

Business Planning and Decision Making

Resilience in the Face of Emergencies

This subject is about understanding why and how leaders influence change. The focus of the subject is increasing the effectiveness of leadership and change management skills at an individual and organisation levels. Leadership and change management are increasingly seen to be key factors affecting the performance of contemporary organisations and are important areas of study in the fields of management and organisational behaviour. Effective leadership and change management are important to professional practices, multinational organisations, the public sector, and not-for-profit organisations.  Leadership is what makes things happen. This subject explores conventional and critical perspectives on leadership and examines the practice of leadership in diverse organisational contexts. Effective leadership requires a thorough knowledge of theory and a range of practical skills to support people in achieving organisational objectives. The subject also covers the personal aspects of leadership, including leaders as relationship builders and organisational shapers.  Change is said to be the only constant in 21st -century organisations. Effective change management requires strong diagnosis skills linked to the history, context, challenges, and opportunities faced by an organisation. This subject will integrate theoretical and practical aspects of change management to enhance capabilities in the design, development, and implementation of change management strategies. It will examine theoretical aspects from both traditional and critical perspectives.

This subject introduces you to the concepts, applications and practice of management. You will be introduced to the fundamentals of management that are vital for the successful operation of any business. You will be exposed to a widely accepted body of knowledge, introducing you to contemporary issues in the practice of management. From various journals and publications the opinions and experiences of both practitioners and academics will be emphasised. The subject is designed to be suitable for students at different stages in their careers and at different levels in the organisation. If you are new to a management or supervisory position this subject will provide you with grounding in management. If you are already employed in a management position, you may acquire some new ideas, refresh your memory or even affirm that you are doing things correctly. At present, you may not be employed in a management or supervisory position. In that case, consider the subject as advanced preparation for a period when you may be assigned a managerial or supervisory position. The specific content of the subject has been designed to be sufficiently broad and comprehensive to prepare you for a range of different business settings. You will notice that the subject has been named Management, not specifically Maritime Management. The principles and practice of management are applied across all industries. To make the material as relevant as possible you will be asked to use your organisation as a focus to answer activities and questions.

Management

This subject offers an investigative insight into the fundamentals of management. Encompassing platform leadership and organisation theory, a brief history of management theory will be followed by investigations into different theories of organisations. You will explore topics under three key areas being: underpinning knowledge/theories; applying theory to practice; contemporary and future management issues. You will be offered the opportunity to advance your understanding of fundamental management principles which can be applied in various organisational settings, ranging from private sector entities to NGOs, public sector taxpayer-funded organisations and start-ups. All students will be invited and expected to discuss topics from across the scope of this subject and the management discipline. To support discussions, assorted readings and other learning material will focus on foundational management approaches and management theories. You’ll be expected to read widely, being aware of current business affairs and applying capabilities associated with self directed learning. You are invited to bring your ideas and questions to workshops for deeper exploration of topics of interest with the group. You will explore management theory and review case studies for the purpose of strengthening your ability to identify and address business problems and research possible solutions. You will explore ways and means to create and sustain a workplace where people are given the best opportunities to succeed and in doing so, support organisational goals. Embedded in each of the modules are case studies to support and direct discussions during workshop sessions.

Explore management theory and learn to apply it in organisational settings. Dive into critical management functions including leadership and decision making. Learn about culture and group dynamics. Grasp this essential business function.

Managing Contemporary Organisations

Organisations impact, and are impacted by, the societies in which they operate. That is, they are part of a broader social system.Society generally, and different groups of stakeholders specifically, expect an organisation to accept various responsibilities with respect to how it interacts with, and how it is accountable to, different stakeholders. Failure to comply with particular stakeholders’ expectations can have implications for the survival of an organisation.Employer groups, professional accounting bodies and course advisory committees have consistently highlighted the need for business students to be critical thinkers; be able to demonstrate skills that extend beyond technical competencies; and to be able to demonstrate an understanding that organisations are part of a broader social system on which they rely for organisational survival.This subject responds to this expectation, as it:Focusses on graduate self-awareness and applied technical and professional ‘soft’ skills in the following key areas:• Provides insight into identifying stakeholders and their expectations• Emphasises the relevance of sustainability to organisational success• Provides a background to enable the determination of relevant frameworks to apply in order to improve an organisation’s social and environmental performance• Provides insights into applying an accountability model to guide organisational reporting decisions

Organisational Social Responsibilities

This subject introduces you to the theory and practice of strategic management, focusing on strategic thinking and decision making. Throughout your study you will be asked to place yourself in the position of a strategic manager and to use your creativity and ingenuity in mapping out strategies that will help your organisation maintain a competitive edge. To assist you meet this challenge, we will discuss in detail the various stages that make up the strategic management process. We will use a number of examples from the Transport and Logistics Industry to show how the process works in practice (we will also use examples from different industries). Use what you learn about the process as a guide, but always remember that mechanically following a process or technique, however well tried and tested, is no substitute for creative thinking!As postgraduate students, you will be expected and encouraged to be creative and conceptual in applying strategic management theory. The key lies in how well you, as a strategic manager, can make opportunities out of threats (challenges) and devise ingenious ways of making them work.Students should draw upon all the relevant knowledge and skills gained from previous subjects. The work from Management isuseful: The topics of Leadership, Communication, the External Environment, Managing Change, Organisational Culture, Organisational Structure Design and Evaluation. Topics covered in Finance for Decision-Making relevant to this subject. For example, budgeting, ratio analysis and interpretation of financial statements is particularly useful to strategic managers.

The aim of this subject is to introduce you to the type of financial information that you, as a manager, can expect to receive and to the techniques that you can use to analyse this information for decision making and control purposes. The subject is therefore written from the perspective of you as a manager of an operating subject in a corporate environment. This approach will provide you with a sound basis by which you can understand, review, analyse and use the various types of financial information with which you are most likely to come into contact.This subject also contains sections in relation to ship and port investment evaluation and finance and shipping business risk management. It aims to enhance your capability in understanding practical financial issues and applying financial concepts in the maritime transport and logistics industry where you may be working.

Finance for Decision-Making

Business Continuity Management is the holistic management process that identifies potential threats to an organisation and the likely impacts to business operations that may be caused if those threats materialise. This fully online subject provides you with a thorough understanding of the concepts and practical applications of Business Continuity Management. You will gain an appreciation of the issues and elements that underlie the practice of Business Continuity Management and draw upon theoretical concepts, real life case studies and relevant standards.  This subject will provide you with the knowledge and skills to translate and communicate theoretical concepts in Business Continuity Management to tangible outputs for industry. This subject, together with protective security, crisis management, and the ability to lead resilient organisations, are collectively the underpinning foundation for enhancing organisational resilience. The subject provides you with an understanding and the requisite skills that will be interrelated with these subjects should you proceed further with your postgraduate studies in organisational resilience.

Business Continuity Management

A crisis has a material impact on an organisation’s ability to deliver services to the community, reputation, shareholder value and potentially, the viability of the organisation. This requires input from the highest levels to strategically respond to and manage the potential and actual ramifications. Crisis Management requires practitioners to have a comprehensive understanding of core concepts and processes so they can enhance the organisations’ capability to manage a crisis and mitigate the impacts a crisis. This subject provides you with a thorough understanding of the theoretical concepts and practical applications of Crisis Management. You will gain an appreciation of the issues and elements that underlie the practice of Crisis Management and draw upon theoretical concepts, real life case studies and relevant standards. This subject will provide you with the skills and practical experience to translate theoretical concepts on Crisis Management into tangible outputs for industry. This subject provides you with an understanding and the requisite skills that will be interrelated with other subjects should you proceed further with your postgraduate studies in organisational resilience.

Crisis Management

Organisational resilience refers to an organisation’s ability to adapt, evolve, respond, and recover from short term shocks (be they natural hazards or significant changes in market dynamics) and to shape itself to respond to long term challenges. This requires practitioners to have a comprehensive understanding of the skills and knowledge required to develop and enhance an organisation’s resilience. This subject provides you with a thorough understanding of the theoretical concepts and practical applications for Leading Resilient Organisations. You will gain an appreciation of the issues and elements that underlie the practice of organisational resilience and draw upon theoretical concepts, real life case studies and relevant standards. This subject will provide you with the skills to translate theoretical concepts on organisational resilience into tangible outputs for industry. This subject will provide you with an understanding and the requisite skills that can be interrelated with other subjects should you proceed further with your postgraduate studies in organisational resilience.

Leading Resilient Organisations

Strategic management today is a complex process requiring advanced skills. International expansion, network advantage, and resource optimisation pervade every aspect of this critical management skill. Successful managers need up-to-date guidance in the creation and implementation of effective strategy. This subject is specifically designed to meet these requirements. The design, content, concepts and supportive readings all reflect current issues in strategic management. The subject focuses on the practice and concepts of strategic management through the introduction of appropriate theoretical models and frameworks. The central issue of the subject is the achievement of competitive advantage: internal and external drivers of competitive advantage, the link between strategy formulation and implementation, and the role of leadership, corporate governance and strategic entrepreneurship in this process.

This subject is about understanding why and how leaders influence change. The focus of the subject is increasing the effectiveness of leadership and change management skills at an individual and organisation levels. 

Leadership and change management are increasingly seen to be key factors affecting the performance of contemporary organisations and are important areas of study in the fields of management and organisational behaviour. Effective leadership and change management are important to professional practices, multinational organisations, the public sector, and not-for-profit organisations. 




Leadership is what makes things happen. This subject explores conventional and critical perspectives on leadership and examines the practice of leadership in diverse organisational contexts. Effective leadership requires a thorough knowledge of theory and a range of practical skills to support people in achieving organisational objectives. The subject also covers the personal aspects of leadership, including leaders as relationship builders and organisational shapers. 




Change is said to be the only constant in 21st -century organisations. Effective change management requires strong diagnosis skills linked to the history, context, challenges, and opportunities faced by an organisation. This subject will integrate theoretical and practical aspects of change management to enhance capabilities in the design, development, and implementation of change management strategies. It will examine theoretical aspects from both traditional and critical perspectives.

University of Tasmania

This subject introduces you to the concepts, applications and practice of management. You will be introduced to the fundamentals of management that are vital for the successful operation of any business. You will be exposed to a widely accepted body of knowledge, introducing you to contemporary issues in the practice of management. From various journals and publications the opinions and experiences of both practitioners and academics will be emphasised.




The subject is designed to be suitable for students at different stages in their careers and at different levels in the organisation. If you are new to a management or supervisory position this subject will provide you with grounding in management. If you are already employed in a management position, you may acquire some new ideas, refresh your memory or even affirm that you are doing things correctly. At present, you may not be employed in a management or supervisory position. In that case, consider the subject as advanced preparation for a period when you may be assigned a managerial or supervisory position.




The specific content of the subject has been designed to be sufficiently broad and comprehensive to prepare you for a range of different business settings. You will notice that the subject has been named Management, not specifically Maritime Management. The principles and practice of management are applied across all industries. To make the material as relevant as possible you will be asked to use your organisation as a focus to answer activities and questions.

Organisations impact, and are impacted by, the societies in which they operate. That is, they are part of a broader social system.

Society generally, and different groups of stakeholders specifically, expect an organisation to accept various responsibilities with respect to how it interacts with, and how it is accountable to, different stakeholders. Failure to comply with particular stakeholders’ expectations can have implications for the survival of an organisation.

Employer groups, professional accounting bodies and course advisory committees have consistently highlighted the need for business students to be critical thinkers; be able to demonstrate skills that extend beyond technical competencies; and to be able to demonstrate an understanding that organisations are part of a broader social system on which they rely for organisational survival.

This subject responds to this expectation, as it:

Focusses on graduate self-awareness and applied technical and professional ‘soft’ skills in the following key areas:

• Provides insight into identifying stakeholders and their expectations

• Emphasises the relevance of sustainability to organisational success

• Provides a background to enable the determination of relevant frameworks to apply in order to improve an organisation’s social and environmental performance

• Provides insights into applying an accountability model to guide organisational reporting decisions

This subject introduces you to the theory and practice of strategic management, focusing on strategic thinking and decision making. Throughout your study you will be asked to place yourself in the position of a strategic manager and to use your creativity and ingenuity in mapping out strategies that will help your organisation maintain a competitive edge. To assist you meet this challenge, we will discuss in detail the various stages that make up the strategic management process. We will use a number of examples from the Transport and Logistics Industry to show how the process works in practice (we will also use examples from different industries). Use what you learn about the process as a guide, but always remember that mechanically following a process or technique, however well tried and tested, is no substitute for creative thinking!

As postgraduate students, you will be expected and encouraged to be creative and conceptual in applying strategic management theory. The key lies in how well you, as a strategic manager, can make opportunities out of threats (challenges) and devise ingenious ways of making them work.

Students should draw upon all the relevant knowledge and skills gained from previous subjects. The work from Management isuseful: The topics of Leadership, Communication, the External Environment, Managing Change, Organisational Culture, Organisational Structure Design and Evaluation. Topics covered in Finance for Decision-Making relevant to this subject. For example, budgeting, ratio analysis and interpretation of financial statements is particularly useful to strategic managers.

The aim of this subject is to introduce you to the type of financial information that you, as a manager, can expect to receive and to the techniques that you can use to analyse this information for decision making and control purposes. The subject is therefore written from the perspective of you as a manager of an operating subject in a corporate environment. This approach will provide you with a sound basis by which you can understand, review, analyse and use the various types of financial information with which you are most likely to come into contact.

This subject also contains sections in relation to ship and port investment evaluation and finance and shipping business risk management. It aims to enhance your capability in understanding practical financial issues and applying financial concepts in the maritime transport and logistics industry where you may be working.

Business Continuity Management is the holistic management process that identifies potential threats to an organisation and the likely impacts to business operations that may be caused if those threats materialise. This fully online subject provides you with a thorough understanding of the concepts and practical applications of Business Continuity Management. You will gain an appreciation of the issues and elements that underlie the practice of Business Continuity Management and draw upon theoretical concepts, real life case studies and relevant standards. 




This subject will provide you with the knowledge and skills to translate and communicate theoretical concepts in Business Continuity Management to tangible outputs for industry. This subject, together with protective security, crisis management, and the ability to lead resilient organisations, are collectively the underpinning foundation for enhancing organisational resilience. The subject provides you with an understanding and the requisite skills that will be interrelated with these subjects should you proceed further with your postgraduate studies in organisational resilience.

A crisis has a material impact on an organisation’s ability to deliver services to the community, reputation, shareholder value and potentially, the viability of the organisation. This requires input from the highest levels to strategically respond to and manage the potential and actual ramifications. Crisis Management requires practitioners to have a comprehensive understanding of core concepts and processes so they can enhance the organisations’ capability to manage a crisis and mitigate the impacts a crisis. This subject provides you with a thorough understanding of the theoretical concepts and practical applications of Crisis Management. You will gain an appreciation of the issues and elements that underlie the practice of Crisis Management and draw upon theoretical concepts, real life case studies and relevant standards. This subject will provide you with the skills and practical experience to translate theoretical concepts on Crisis Management into tangible outputs for industry. This subject provides you with an understanding and the requisite skills that will be interrelated with other subjects should you proceed further with your postgraduate studies in organisational resilience.

Organisational resilience refers to an organisation’s ability to adapt, evolve, respond, and recover from short term shocks (be they natural hazards or significant changes in market dynamics) and to shape itself to respond to long term challenges. This requires practitioners to have a comprehensive understanding of the skills and knowledge required to develop and enhance an organisation’s resilience.




This subject provides you with a thorough understanding of the theoretical concepts and practical applications for Leading Resilient Organisations. You will gain an appreciation of the issues and elements that underlie the practice of organisational resilience and draw upon theoretical concepts, real life case studies and relevant standards. This subject will provide you with the skills to translate theoretical concepts on organisational resilience into tangible outputs for industry. This subject will provide you with an understanding and the requisite skills that can be interrelated with other subjects should you proceed further with your postgraduate studies in organisational resilience.

Strategic management today is a complex process requiring advanced skills. International expansion, network advantage, and resource optimisation pervade every aspect of this critical management skill. Successful managers need up-to-date guidance in the creation and implementation of effective strategy. This subject is specifically designed to meet these requirements. The design, content, concepts and supportive readings all reflect current issues in strategic management. The subject focuses on the practice and concepts of strategic management through the introduction of appropriate theoretical models and frameworks. The central issue of the subject is the achievement of competitive advantage: internal and external drivers of competitive advantage, the link between strategy formulation and implementation, and the role of leadership, corporate governance and strategic entrepreneurship in this process.




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