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Supervision for Managers

Module Synopsis

Supervision for Managers is a module based on a collaborative process between educators and learners and which encompasses functions such as monitoring, professional development and supporting managers in their role as organisational leaders. The key focus of the module is the personal integration of theory and practice through critical reflection on management practice. The module is constituted by different activities, jointly selected by teaching staff and students themselves, whose common presumption is the importance of experience-based learning and whose aim is to facilitate students' holistic analysis of real-world issues, problems and dilemmas. The purpose of the analysis is to promote the on-going personal and professional development of managers and to facilitate the search for creative solutions to complex and interrelated organisational problems in a world characterised by rapid change and by the near-universal experience of both congruence and dissonance. This module is closely related to the module "Managers and Strategic Work-Based Learning".

Learning outcomes
  • Advanced skills in establishing, maintaining and guiding the management process in the context of students' own approach to management
  • Enhanced awareness and critical understanding of the theoretical bases for students' preferred approach to management
  • Demonstrated sensitivity to working within different cultural, political and social contexts and with staff who may have different abilities, values and attitudes
  • Development of advanced capacity for critical reflection and self-evaluation, particularly in relation to the complex relationship between theory and management practice
  • Application of an in-depth understanding of contemporary approaches to ethics, boundaries and responsibilities to management practice
  • Demonstrated willingness and capacity to use negotiated learning contracts, participate in reflective supervision and apply feedback appropriately to management practice

Content areas
Twelve 3-hour sessions constituted by two components:
[A] Twelve 1-hour introductory sessions whose purpose is to elicit focused discussion on the following themes in organisational contexts and the identification of students' own interests, concerns, issues or dilemmas related to, or evoked by, those themes:
  • National and Global Multicultural Contexts
  • Conflict
  • Anger
  • Stress
  • Empathy
  • Values
  • Power and Authority
  • Organisational Entries and Exits: From Hospitality to Grief and Loss
  • Relationship/Relatedness
  • Courage
  • Fear, Distress and Anxiety
  • Modelling and Motivating
  • Meetings!
  • Ethics
  • Managing Poor Performance - Managing Strengths and Success
  • Downsizing, Sackings
  • Justice and Fairness
  • Community: internal and external to the organisation

[B] Twelve 2-hour group-based supervision/critical reflection sessions related to issues, interests and concerns identified by students and using a variety of presentation and reflection methods as negotiated between students and teaching staff (For example: case studies; video and audio tapes; verbatim transcripts; journals; panels; role plays; simulation games; fish-bowl exercises; web-charts; cognitive mapping).

Textbook and Readings
There is no set text for this module. Your readings are an integral part of your study.

Module Duration and Workload:
This module involves a total of 36 hours of face to face delivery or self-directed study including educator contact in flexible delivery modes, generating a further 120 hours of self-study per module including research and related study activities, including assessment. This translates as 13 hours per week for the module.

Study method:
On Campus, Distance Education and Online Education
The studies, combined with my previous work experience, have led me into a more satisfying role in an industry I know well. My studies have given me the confidence to manage a role where top notch "soft skills" are essential.
Pip Pearson
Graduate Diploma of Counselling