LB5526 - Conflict Management and Transformation

Credit points:	03
Year:	2010
Student Contribution Band:	Band 3
Administered by:	School of Law Office

This subject is a comprehensive approach to enabling organisations and individuals to look at the management and transformation of conflict through a range of approaches designed to assist both the conflict worker and parties in conflict and organisations involved with conflict and disputes to understand, manage and transform conflict. The subject will provide a range of conceptual and practical skills. At the organisational level it will look at systems theory, organisational behaviour and conflict management systems/dispute systems design. At the personal level it will build capacity in communication and conflict coaching. This subject will significantly add to the capacity to develop proactive preventative approaches to disputes and conflicts.

Learning Outcomes

• appreciate the wide role and application of conflict management systems and practice in organisational development in both private and public sector organisations;
• analyse systems of conflict management and select and design appropriate forms of transformative and change management systems in organisations;
• ensure that persons engaged in management positions, in organisational development, in human resources and other aspects of organisational governance are equipped to lead change and transformation through designing integrated conflict management systems.

Graduate Qualities

• The ability to appraise information critically;
• The ability to use independent judgment to synthesise information to make intellectual and/or creative advances;
• The ability to think laterally and be original;
• The ability to conceptualise problems;
• The ability to conceptualise and evaluate a range of potential solutions to relevant problems;
• The ability to encompass and use methods and conceptual advances in areas of knowledge cognate to their central area(s) of expertise;
• The potential to lead and contribute to projects effectively and efficiently.

Inadmissible Subject Combinations:

LB5503

Availabilities
Townsville, Block, Study Period 10
Census Date 09-Dec-2010
Face to face teaching 26-Nov-2010 to 05-Dec-2010 (2 workshops; each of one evening and two days duration: 26 Nov (evening) ; 27/28 Nov; 3 Dec (evening); 4/5 Dec)
Coordinator:	Mr Sean Johnson
Contact hours:	35 hours workshops/Seminars - Five days of workshops
Assessment:	presentations (30%); (20%); (50%).

Note: Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.