Introduces students to concepts of management and applies competencies and models to the context of tourism and hospitality organisations. The unit is designed around a conceptual model and uses a case study and real-life circumstances to develop outcomes focussed management skills.
- Introducing management in tourism and hospitality
- Organisations in tourism and hospitality
- Rational goal - productivity and profitability
- Internal process - stability and continuity
- Human relations - commitment and cohesion
- Open systems - change and adaptability
- Management mastery
Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.
Learning outcomes and graduate attributes
|On completion of this unit, students should be able to:||GA1||GA2||GA3||GA4||GA5||GA6||GA7|
|1||describe organisation structure and recognise influences on structure in tourism and hospitality organisations||Intellectual rigour||Knowledge of a discipline||Communication and social skills|
|2||identify management competencies for effective operation of organisations||Intellectual rigour||Knowledge of a discipline||Communication and social skills|
|3||apply self-evaluation of management competencies to develop tourism career goals||Intellectual rigour||Knowledge of a discipline||Communication and social skills|
- The unit MNG00440 works very closely with the following text which is the set text which is available in hard copy or electronic versions. : R. Quinn, S. Faerman, M. Thompson, M. McGrath, L. St. Clair, 2011, Becoming a Master Manager: A Competing Values Approach, 5th, John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, NJ. ISBN: 978-0-470-28466-7.
Teaching and assessment
|Structured online learning 3 hours (12 weeks)|
|Short written response||15%|
|Exam: open book||50%|
Singapore - MDIS
Sydney - The Hotel School
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