OCHS13017 - Resilient Organisations

General Information

Unit Synopsis

In this unit you will consider some of the latest theories in the Safety Sciences, particularly in relation to the concept of resilience in organisations and broader organisational culture issues. The factors which influence the quality and validity of decision making within organisations, such as, values, mindfulness, culture, adaptive systems, participation and leadership in complex socio-technical systems will be considered. You will critically reflect on and evaluate theories such as resilience engineering, high reliability organisations, safety culture and safety climate, and discuss the usefulness of these theories to practice. You will also have the opportunity to evaluate the usefulness of the tools and methods available to measure and monitor factors that affect resilience and other safety science concepts within organisations.

Details

Level Undergraduate
Unit Level 3
Credit Points 6
Student Contribution Band SCA Band 2
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load 0.125
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites

Co-requisite:- AINV11002

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

Term 2 - 2025 Profile
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Term 2 - 2026 Profile
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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. Critical Review 20%
2. Written Assessment 40%
3. Literature Review or Systematic Review 40%

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 2 - 2024 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 50.00% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 22.22% 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.

Source: Unit Coordinator Reflection
Feedback
There is a need to emphasise the importance of including references to support claims (which could otherwise indicate use of artificial intelligent language applications) as well as the existence of self plagiarism, even at the third-year level to circumvent further misunderstandings. 
Recommendation
Before each assessment submission, remind students of their academic integrity responsibilities, and provide some tips for avoiding plagiarism, including self-plagiarism.
Action Taken
Students were reminded to support their writing with academic references.
Source: Unit Coordinator Reflection
Feedback
Students enjoy the critical thinking tasks associated with this unit.
Recommendation
Retain the critical thinking assessment tasks.
Action Taken
This unit is based on critical thinking and writing so it will remain a key contextual learning experience for this 3rd year unit.
Source: SUTE Comments
Feedback
Students felt that the assignments did not offer enough alternative theory or thinking on a theory.
Recommendation
The assessments were changed in 2024 in order to reduce plagiarism and offer a more scaffolded learning experience across the three assessments. This appears to have created not enough variance across the assessment items. It is therefore recommended to review and change the assessment tasks for the 2025 offering in order to add greater variety in critical thinking on the key aspects covered in this unit.
Action Taken
In Progress
Source: SUTE Comments
Feedback
Students reported that the lectures were presented in a way that made it easy to follow and grasp the concepts.
Recommendation
It is recommended to keep the lecture format for the next offering.
Action Taken
In Progress
Source: SUTE Comments
Feedback
Students reported that assessment criteria were clear and expectations were explained really well during the lectures.
Recommendation
It is recommended to keep the lecture format whereby lecture material is clearly linked to assessment criteria and assessment expectations.
Action Taken
In Progress
Source: SUTE Comments
Feedback
One student advised that they felt that there was too much focus on one safety science theorist in the assessments and lectures which they felt was too biased.
Recommendation
It is recommended to review the assessments and lecture material with a view to expanding on the content and having less of a focus on a key safety science theorist.
Action Taken
In Progress
Unit learning Outcomes

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

  1. Explore the characteristics of resilience in organisations.
  2. Develop an ability to critically read and write on contemporary safety science theories from an evidence-informed advancing safety professional perspective.
  3. Evaluate the theories that underpin resilience in organisations such as resilience engineering, safety culture and high reliability organisations and discuss the usefulness of these theories to practice.
  4. Discern those factors which influence the quality and validity of decision making within organisations, such as, values, mindfulness, culture, adaptive systems, participation and leadership.
  5. Compare controversial terms related to safety and culture and the ongoing debate underlying these precepts and relationships.
  6. Evaluate the usefulness of the tools and methods available to measure and monitor contemporary safety science concepts such as organisational resilience potentials and safety culture/safety climate.

The course is accredited by the Australian OHS Education Board. This unit relates to the OHS body of knowledge chapters on the organisation.  

Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
Assessment Tasks Learning Outcomes
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2 - Written Assessment • • • •
3 - Literature Review or Systematic Review • • • • •
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
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Graduate Attributes Learning Outcomes
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3 - Critical Thinking • • • • • •
4 - Information Literacy • • • • •
6 - Information Technology Competence •
7 - Cross Cultural Competence • • • •
8 - Ethical practice • • •
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
• Introductory Level
• Intermediate Level
• Graduate Level
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