PUQ454 Leadership in Disaster Management
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| Unit code: | PUQ454 |
|---|---|
| Prerequisite(s): | PUQ451 or PUN451 or PUN450 or PUZ451 |
| Equivalent(s): | PUN454, PUZ454 |
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
| Availabilities |
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| CSP student contribution | $1,118 |
| Domestic tuition unit fee | $2,976 |
| International unit fee | $4,236 |
Unit Outline: Session 2 2024, QUT Online, Online
| Unit code: | PUQ454 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | PUQ451 or PUN451 or PUN450 or PUZ451 |
| Assumed Knowledge: | Core concepts, definitions and underpinning principles that guide the effective management of local, national and international man-made, technological, and weather-related disasters, and emergencies and their impact on communities. |
Overview
This unit addresses the key concepts and skills related to disaster leadership and strategic issues in aspects of health and health services management. It examines leadership styles, leading teams and working collaboratively across sectors and disciplines throughout the disaster management framework. Upon completion of this unit you will have a greater understanding of the critical role of health leadership in disasters and how to prepare and deliver a media briefing using effective communication strategies and protocols.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Critically apply strategies to lead manage key strategic issues confronting disaster risk management
- Prepare and deliver a media briefing using effective communication strategies and protocols
- Critically analyse and evaluate strategic leadership theory and models to determine and justify your preferred leadership style and approach
- Critically reflect upon and evaluate preparations and response and recovery arrangements for disasters
- Analyse and plan for future challenges in disaster-risk mananagement and leadership
Content
In this unit, you will study strategic issues in disaster risk management; strategic leadership of emergencies, disasters and team media and crisis management communication; future developments and emerging challenges
Learning Approaches
In this fully online unit you will have the opportunity to learn through active engagement with the self-directed learning materials in the online Study Guide and online discussions. Uniquely, this unit enables you to demonstrate leadership and media communication skills through a group simulation activity. As an online student you are expected to sustain a regular study schedule and maintain regular contact with your online tutor.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
You will receive feedback on your learning in a variety of ways, including:
- Informal formative feedback will be provided through self-check exercises and learning activities in the Study Guide in online discussions.
- Formal written or recorded feedback will be provided on both formative and summative assessment tasks via Turnitin or the Canvas Assignment tool, in addition to the grade on the Criterion Reference Assessment sheet.
- Feedback on your assessment task 1 will be received prior to the submission of your assessment task 2.
Assessment
Overview
You are required to complete two assessment tasks: a critical analysis of leadership style across the disaster management framework in the context of a specific disaster; and an authentic leadership simulation. The leadership simulation requires group work to allow for a more real-world simulation. These two tasks are designed to provide you with the opportunity to draw together your knowledge and skills developed in the other units and to reflect upon and develop your strategic leadership and media communication skills.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Critical analysis of leadership in a disaster context (Leadership Report)
You are required to familiarise yourself with the activities of a leader in disaster management and examine how they fulfill their role and the strategies they use in a practice context and how they prepare for future challenges.
You should then analyse this against the backdrop of the research, models and practices of leadership, which you will have studied in the Study Guide and prescribed readings. You will also critically reflect on lessons learned and implications for your own development as leader in emergency and disaster management.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Assessment: Leadership Challenge
You will be assigned a specific agency role where you must collaborate with others representting different agencies to manage a complex, volatile, changing issue. Individually, you will prepare and deliver to camera a media briefing on the emergency/disaster that is currently emerging. You will need to critique the recording of your media briefing drawing upon the literature and identify actions for improvement.
After the completion of the scenario and media briefing, you will undertake a retrospective, where you will individually reflect upon both the performance of the team and your individual leadership capabilities leadership style demonstrated, media briefing presentation, lessons learned and what you would do differently in the future. Your reflection should be supported by and reference relevant scholarly literature.
The reflection is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Requirements to Study
Requirements
Nil
Costs
There are no additional costs associated with this unit.
Resources
Resource Materials
Prescribed text(s)
- FitzGerald, G., Tarrant, M., Aitken, P. and Fredriksen, M. (2016). Disaster Health Management: A Primer for Students and Practitioners (1st ed.). London & NY: Routledge.
Other
- PUQ454 Unit Site.
Risk Assessment Statement
You are advised to back-up your digital files on a regular basis to ensure work is not lost if there is a hardware failure. Information about the free file storage provided by QUT for students is available on the Storing your files page.
There are no out of the ordinary risks associated with this unit.
Unit Outline: Session 4 2024, QUT Online, Online
| Unit code: | PUQ454 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | PUQ451 or PUN451 or PUN450 or PUZ451 |
| Assumed Knowledge: | Core concepts, definitions and underpinning principles that guide the effective management of local, national and international man-made, technological, and weather-related disasters, and emergencies and their impact on communities. |
| Coordinator: | Jo Durham | joanne.durham@qut.edu.au |
Overview
This unit addresses the key concepts and skills related to disaster leadership and strategic issues in aspects of health and health services management. It examines leadership styles, leading teams and working collaboratively across sectors and disciplines throughout the disaster management framework. Upon completion of this unit you will have a greater understanding of the critical role of health leadership in disasters and how to prepare and deliver a media briefing using effective communication strategies and protocols.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Critically apply strategies to lead manage key strategic issues confronting disaster risk management
- Prepare and deliver a media briefing using effective communication strategies and protocols
- Critically analyse and evaluate strategic leadership theory and models to determine and justify your preferred leadership style and approach
- Critically reflect upon and evaluate preparations and response and recovery arrangements for disasters
- Analyse and plan for future challenges in disaster-risk mananagement and leadership
Content
In this unit, you will study strategic issues in disaster risk management; strategic leadership of emergencies, disasters and team media and crisis management communication; future developments and emerging challenges
Learning Approaches
In this fully online unit you will have the opportunity to learn through active engagement with the self-directed learning materials in the online Study Guide and online discussions. Uniquely, this unit enables you to demonstrate leadership and media communication skills through a group simulation activity. As an online student you are expected to sustain a regular study schedule and maintain regular contact with your online tutor.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
You will receive feedback on your learning in a variety of ways, including:
- Informal formative feedback will be provided through self-check exercises and learning activities in the Study Guide in online discussions.
- Formal written or recorded feedback will be provided on both formative and summative assessment tasks via Turnitin or the Canvas Assignment tool, in addition to the grade on the Criterion Reference Assessment sheet.
- Feedback on your assessment task 1 will be received prior to the submission of your assessment task 2.
Assessment
Overview
You are required to complete two assessment tasks: a critical analysis of leadership style across the disaster management framework in the context of a specific disaster; and an authentic leadership simulation. The leadership simulation requires group work to allow for a more real-world simulation. These two tasks are designed to provide you with the opportunity to draw together your knowledge and skills developed in the other units and to reflect upon and develop your strategic leadership and media communication skills.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Critical analysis of leadership in a disaster context (Leadership Report)
You are required to familiarise yourself with the activities of a leader in disaster management and examine how they fulfill their role and the strategies they use in a practice context and how they prepare for future challenges.
You should then analyse this against the backdrop of the research, models and practices of leadership, which you will have studied in the Study Guide and prescribed readings. You will also critically reflect on lessons learned and implications for your own development as leader in emergency and disaster management.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Assessment: Leadership Challenge
You will be assigned a specific agency role where you must collaborate with others representting different agencies to manage a complex, volatile, changing issue. Individually, you will prepare and deliver to camera a media briefing on the emergency/disaster that is currently emerging. You will need to critique the recording of your media briefing drawing upon the literature and identify actions for improvement.
After the completion of the scenario and media briefing, you will undertake a retrospective, where you will individually reflect upon both the performance of the team and your individual leadership capabilities leadership style demonstrated, media briefing presentation, lessons learned and what you would do differently in the future. Your reflection should be supported by and reference relevant scholarly literature.
The reflection is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Requirements to Study
Requirements
Nil
Costs
There are no additional costs associated with this unit.
Resources
Resource Materials
Prescribed text(s)
- FitzGerald, G., Tarrant, M., Aitken, P. and Fredriksen, M. (2016). Disaster Health Management: A Primer for Students and Practitioners (1st ed.). London & NY: Routledge.
Other
- PUQ454 Unit Site.
Risk Assessment Statement
You are advised to back-up your digital files on a regular basis to ensure work is not lost if there is a hardware failure. Information about the free file storage provided by QUT for students is available on the Storing your files page.
There are no out of the ordinary risks associated with this unit.