AIPM601 Course Structure
The Graduate Certificate in Applied Management (AIPM601) comprises of two subjects studied via part-time distance education and two subjects delivered in a full-time intensive on-campus residential program:
RPL - Recognition of Prior Learning
RCC - Recognition of Current Competency
The major learning outcomes of AIPM 601 Graduate Certificate in Applied Management relate to the development of increased knowledge, skills and confidence to manage at senior organisational levels.
On successful completion of the program, participants should be able to:
- Explain the leadership behaviours and skills required to mobilise others to achieve organisational outcomes;
- Apply an ethical approach to decision making;
- Analyse environmental trends that influence the objectives of the policing and emergency services industry;
- Analyse and plan for complex management problems;
- Establish parameters for judging the effectiveness of corporate processes and performance outcomes;
- Formulate corporate improvement strategies;
- Develop processes to manage performance and results; and
- Recommend executive level decisions, particularly in the areas of corporate planning, human and financial resource management and public accountability.
There are two cohorts of the Graduate Certificate in Applied Management: The Police Management Development Program (PMDP) and Executive Development Program (EDP). These courses are developmental, highly applied and experientially based. Case studies are based on actual events. There are opportunities for individual and group work, and exercises that help participants better understand their own behaviours and how they affect others.
The content includes strategic planning, project governance, problem solving, strategic management, change management, contemporary leadership, policy development, financial management, media management and leadership theory.