EDME669-25S2 (C) Semester Two 2025

Leading and Managing Decision-Making in Organisations

30 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 14 July 2025
End Date: Sunday, 9 November 2025
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 27 July 2025
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 28 September 2025

Description

Participants will engage with current thinking and practice around decision-making in organisations and will develop skill in identifying, critically evaluating and using diverse decision-making models. This course is designed for those who hold, or aspire to, positional leadership. Drawing on theories of organisational psychology, culture and change management, participants will solve an organisational problem, negotiating the dynamics of planned and unplanned change, and change resistance.

Learning Outcomes

After successful completion of this course, you will be able to:
1. Identify the key factors at play in the external environment in terms of leading organisational management and decision-making
2. Critically evaluate decision-making models and their fitness for purpos
3. Justify ethical principles that underpin decision-making
4. Understand and apply knowledge of power and political dimensions at macro and micro levels in both decision-making and change management
5. Complete a critical review, which includes an assessment of bi-cultural commitments of leadership and management actions, in the context of a significant organisational challenge
6. Formulate a detailed change process to lead in addressing an existing organisational problem.

Prerequisites

Subject to approval from the Head of Department.

Restrictions

EDEM669

Equivalent Courses

EDEM669

Timetable 2025

Students must attend one activity from each section.

Lecture A
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Thursday 14:00 - 16:00 Rehua 101 Lectorial (17/7, 14/8, 9/10)
Online Delivery (31/7, 11/9)
 14 Jul - 20 Jul
28 Jul - 3 Aug
11 Aug - 17 Aug
8 Sep - 14 Sep
6 Oct - 12 Oct

Course Coordinator

Kris LaVenia

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Assignment 1 29 Aug 2025 45% An essay focused on leadership dilemmas & taking into consideration theory and knowledge of context as guides for action.
Assignment 2 13 Oct 2025 45% Preparation of a PowerPoint presentation with accompanying notes for aspiring leaders which introduces frameworks for ethical decision making to an illustrative example from practice.
Assessed Forum Participation 10% There are two assessed forums. The intention is to respond to a specified reading noting key points and challenges for practice. Due Date: 9am, 4 August 2025 for the completed Forum no 1 and 27 October 2025 for the completed Forum no 2

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $2,169.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see School of Leadership and Professional Practice .

All EDME669 Occurrences

  • EDME669-25S2 (C) Semester Two 2025
  • EDME669-25S2 (D) Semester Two 2025 (Distance)
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