Handbook

Organisations are a permanent aspect of our current social system. We have structured our existence around groups of people organised together to achieve particular outcomes. How and why these groups achieve goals (or fail trying) is an enduring question within the social sciences. This course will introduce you to a range of explanations for how organisations function. We will take a three tiered approach to the issues by looking at social/cultural determinants, small group interaction and individual behaviour. The course is cross-disciplinary and is designed to challenge your preconceived notions of how the world works and why. We will use military case studies to explore how and why people behave the way they do and to make the course as relevant as possible to your future work in the ADF. By necessity our approach will be a critical one, where we always consider how things could be done better by learning from the past. The learning strategies employed in the course are designed to challenge and engage.