Managing Projects and Teams
Description
Effective management is essential to delivering projects that run on time and on budget and involves managing all resources available to maximise results from the available resources. It is the skill of directing the complex and often problematic interaction of people and events that occur during a research project. Few projects run smoothly, and unforeseen problems are common but rarely fatal to research activities. Good planning and appropriate responses to these problems can overcome what seem like enormous obstacles, as well as the common pitfalls that can catch out even the most experienced researchers and managers.
Subject Code
CLRS90012
Credit Points
12.5 points
Objectives
Students who successfully complete this subject will be able to:
- Develop project plans for clinical trials that are focussed on delivering outcomes
- Understand the issues around resource management and how to plan the most effective use of resources available
- Understand the requirements for managing budgets over the life of the project
- Develop strategies for key stakeholder management and reporting
- Use the best approaches to analysing and interpreting data
- Identify potential pitfalls to successful trial implementation
- Understand different work styles and preferences and how to use this knowledge to create high performing teams
- Develop and implement processes for performance management
Description
Topics covered include:
- Designing, planning and managing projects
- Resource management, including insourcing and outsourcing
- Project budget management
- Delivering outcomes
- Common pitfalls to successful trial implementation
- Running clinical trial, analysing and interpreting data
- Complying with regulations
- Key stakeholder management and reporting
- Managing project teams
- Team work styles
- Managing and rewarding team performance
- Managing conflict
Pre-requisites and/or Co-requisites
For both the Professional Certificate and Graduate Certificate in Clinical Research the entry requirements are:
- An undergraduate degree or equivalent qualification in medicine, an allied health profession, nursing, science or social science which is recognised by the University as evidence of adequate preparation for the course PLUS
- Documented evidence of at least one year's full-time relevant professional work experience in a
medical, scientific or allied health environment.
All students will be required to meet the English Language requirements of the University.
Mode of Delivery
Intensive 4 day blocks
Contact Time
48 hours of lectures/seminars/workshops
Assessment
Two assignments totalling 4000 words (100 per cent).
Subject Coordinator
Associate Professor Pat Foley
Pat has extensive academic, executive education and consulting experience. He has conducted numerous academic and executive education programs both in Australia and internationally on leading and managing research teams. He is currently an academic at Victoria University where he teaches Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Competition Innovation Strategy, Strategic Human Resource Management and Business Research Methods subjects that are offered through the Victoria Graduate School of Business. Previously he was an Associate Professor in the School of Enterprise at Melbourne University.
He has been on the editorial review board the Journal of Managerial Psychology and he has won a number of conference best paper awards and has over 50 referred articles and conference papers. Some recent articles (2008 and 2010) have been on the relationship between operational capability and firm competitiveness and on the antecedents to firm competiveness and were published in the International Journal of Global Business and Competitiveness. Pat’s recent research has focused on an examination of the relationship between a firm’s strategic leadership capability, corporate entrepreneurship and its financial performance in Australia’s Top 1000 firms. He is also currently exploring how leadership capabilities shape employee collaborative, innovative and engagement behaviours to enhance an SME's sustainability, new product development and competitiveness.
Venue
Hawthorn Campus
Dates
Tuesday 15, Wednesday 16, Thursday 17 & Friday 18- May 2012
Course Fee
Program Fees for 2012 are $2,350 per 12.5 point subject, making total costs as follows:
- The Professional Certificate - $4,700
- The Graduate Certificate - $9,400
The course fees include
- All course materials and assessment
- Access to on-line databases required
- Morning, afternoon tea and lunch on each day of teaching
Student commitment
Students should expect to undertake a minimum of 120 hours lectures, research, reading, writing etc to complete this subject successfully.
For further information contact
Mary Georges (03) 9810 3185 or mgeorges@unimelb.edu.au
Application Process
Applications are managed by Student Services.