School: Arts and Humanities

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Organisational Contexts
  • Unit Code

    SWK3110
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Shajimon PETER

Description

This unit locates human service organisations and their workers within the broad context of the state. Students will consider how the policies of government influence the structure, purpose and practices of the organisations in which social workers are likely to be employed. Students consider the various perspectives from which organisations can be understood with a view to developing their understanding of an organisation's target group, goals, structure and culture. Students are introduced to principles, skills and strategies for working in human service organisations.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse the functions and characteristics of human service organisations from different ideological perspectives.
  2. Explain the impact of different organisational structures, management styles and locations (with a focus on regional, rural and remote communities) on social work practice.
  3. Identify the ways in which human services are delivered through policies, programs and organisations.
  4. Understand and explain the development of the welfare state.
  5. Understand how to practice effectively within organisational settings.

Unit Content

  1. Approaches to analysing human service organisations.
  2. Discourses in the delivery of human services: professional, market, managerial and community.
  3. The auspice of human service work and current issues and prospects for human service organisations.
  4. The changing nature of the state and state sponsored responses to human need in Australia.
  5. Working ethically and effectively in contested environments and multidisciplinary teams with reference to the AASW Code of Ethics and Practice Standards.
  6. Working proactively within organisations.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECUs LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 1Not OfferedNot Offered13 x 1 hour lecture
Semester 1Not OfferedNot Offered13 x 2 hour tutorial

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECUs LMS as well as additional ECU l

Additional Learning Experience Information

Interactive lectures, tutorials and readings, online learning, group work, group discussion, group wikis and role play.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
ReportOrganisational Case Study Report60%
PresentationTeam Presentation40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
ReportOrganisational Case Study Report60%
PresentationTeam Presentation40%

Core Reading(s)

  • Milbourne, P. (2010). Australia’s rural welfare policy: Overlooked and demoralised. In Welfare reform in rural places: Comparative perspectives (pp. 199–217). Emerald Group Publishing. Retrieved from https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/ecu/reader.action?docID=514064&ppg=209
  • Gardner, F. (2016). Working with human service organisations (2nd ed., pp. xvii, 238). South Melbourne, Vic.: Oxford University Press. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/974590311

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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School: Arts and Humanities

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Organisational Contexts
  • Unit Code

    SWK3110
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Shajimon PETER

Description

This unit locates human service organisations and their workers within the broad context of the state. Students will consider how the policies of government influence the structure, purpose and practices of the organisations in which social workers are likely to be employed. Students consider the various perspectives from which organisations can be understood with a view to developing their understanding of an organisation's target group, goals, structure and culture. Students are introduced to principles, skills and strategies for working in human service organisations.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse the functions and characteristics of human service organisations from different ideological perspectives.
  2. Explain the impact of different organisational structures, management styles and locations (with a focus on regional, rural and remote communities) on social work practice.
  3. Identify the ways in which human services are delivered through policies, programs and organisations.
  4. Understand and explain the development of the welfare state.
  5. Understand how to practice effectively within organisational settings.

Unit Content

  1. Approaches to analysing human service organisations.
  2. Discourses in the delivery of human services: professional, market, managerial and community.
  3. The auspice of human service work and current issues and prospects for human service organisations.
  4. The changing nature of the state and state sponsored responses to human need in Australia.
  5. Working ethically and effectively in contested environments and multidisciplinary teams with reference to the AASW Code of Ethics and Practice Standards.
  6. Working proactively within organisations.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECUs LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 1Not OfferedNot Offered13 x 1 hour lecture
Semester 1Not OfferedNot Offered13 x 2 hour tutorial

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECUs LMS as well as additional ECU l

Additional Learning Experience Information

Interactive lectures, tutorials and readings, online learning, group work, group discussion, group wikis and role play.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
ReportOrganisational Case Study Report60%
PresentationTeam Presentation40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
ReportOrganisational Case Study Report60%
PresentationTeam Presentation40%

Core Reading(s)

  • Milbourne, P. (2010). Australia’s rural welfare policy: Overlooked and demoralised. In Welfare reform in rural places: Comparative perspectives (pp. 199–217). Emerald Group Publishing. Retrieved from https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/ecu/reader.action?docID=514064&ppg=209
  • Gardner, F. (2016). Working with human service organisations (2nd ed., pp. xvii, 238). South Melbourne, Vic.: Oxford University Press. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/974590311

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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