Overview
The Master of Workforce Planning at UNSW Canberra is designed to enable the development of skills that will improve organisational productivity and outcome through the process of systematically predicting the future demand and supply of the employees. The program will provide students with knowledge to enable the forecasting and deployment … For more content click the Read More button below.
The program integrates strategic theory with modelling applications. Students will firstly learn about different aspects of developing a workforce plan, before then applying this knowledge to create new ideas and plans. The program includes optional research project courses that enable students to produce a substantial piece of research-based scholarship during their degree.
This fully online degree balances advanced theory with practical knowledge, offering you the opportunity to learn how to develop effective future workforce plans.
Learning Outcomes
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Provide strategic workforce advice based upon synthesising and interpreting primary and secondary data, and disseminating to key stakeholders
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Using systems and workforce planning theories, define and critically analyse complex systems to create innovative solutions.
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Collect, analyse and synthesise qualitative and quantitative data sets to determine necessary future skills, capacity surpluses and gaps, in order to forecast future needs in a range of complex organizational contexts.
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Be able to work with specialist and non-specialists to effectively forecast the workforce balance required to run a complex organisation into the future.
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Apply workforce planning and organisational capability theories to determine and shape the workforce resources required to achieve organizational capacity on-time and within budget.
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Present complex research findings and data in multiple ways to a range of audiences to support effective decision making.
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Program Structure
Students must complete 48 UOC when taken as a standalone program.
Core Courses30 Units of Credit:
Prescribed Elective Courses12 Units of Credit:
Free Elective or Research Course6 Units of Credit:
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You are responsible for ensuring that you enrol in courses according to your program requirements and by following the advice of your Program Authority. myUNSW enrolment checks that you have met enrolment requirements such as pre-requisites for individual courses but not that you are enrolling in courses that will count towards your program requirements.
You are responsible for ensuring that you enrol in courses according to your program requirements and by following the advice of your Program Authority. myUNSW enrolment checks that you have met enrolment requirements such as pre-requisites for individual courses but not that you are enrolling in courses that will count towards your program requirements.
Admission Requirements
Entry Requirements
Minimum Entry Requirements
Program Requirements
Progression Requirements
Students who do not complete the full Master program requirements may exit the program with a Graduate Certificate in Workforce Planning (Code 7561) qualification (24 UOC). Students must have completed four courses (24 UOC) comprising of at least two core courses from ZBUS8314, ZBUS8317, ZEIT8305, ZEIT8412 or ZPEM8311, and any two other courses within the Master program.
For more information on university policy on progression requirements please visit Academic Progression
Associated Programs
Nested Postgraduate Program
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Recognition of Achievement
Award with Excellence
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The Award with Excellence is awarded in coursework masters programs, including Masters (Extension) but with the exception of Masters (Extended) such as JD and MD, when a Weighted Average Mean (WAM) of at least 80% has been achieved and at least 50% of the requirements of the award are completed at UNSW. All eligible programs will award 'with Excellence' except in special circumstances where approval of Academic Board has been given for a program to opt out.
Program Fees
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