Master of Workforce Planning
Fostering global business leaders.
For domestic and international students.
Fostering global business leaders.
For domestic and international students.
¹ú²ú¾«Æ· Canberra is now offering a Master of Workforce Planning.
The Master of Workforce Planning at ¹ú²ú¾«Æ· Canberra is designed to support workforce planning uplift by developing strategic workforce planners. To do this, we have created a curriculum to develop strategic thinkers who have an understanding of complex systems, how they are constituted and how to develop useful models.
The program enables the development of skills that will improve organisational productivity and outcomes through the process of systematically predicting the future demand and supply of the employees.
Graduating students will have the knowledge to enable the forecasting and deployment of capability in order to support the strategic development of the organisation. They will develop both statistical and modelling tools and technique, as well as research and critical analysis skills.Ìý
The program integrates strategic theory with modelling applications.Ìý Students will firstly learn about different aspects of developing a workforce plan, before then applying this knowledge to create new ideas and plans. For Defence students the program includes a research project course enabling students to apply their knowledge to a substantial piece of real-world research.
This fully online degree balances advanced theory with practical knowledge, offering you the opportunity to learn how to develop effective future workforce plans.
Postgraduate coursework
1 year full-time
Semester 1, Semester 2
8561
Online
Intensive delivery mode
By the conclusion of this program students should be able to:
For more information on this degree, see theÌý.
Your exact program structure will depend on your enrolment plan (i.e., 1, 2 or 4 courses per semester) – please see the document sent to you. If you don’t have an enrolment plan, please send an email to business@adfa.edu.au ASAP. As is noted below, correct sequencing of core courses is integral.
The program comprises:
Five core courses
1.ÌýÌýÌýÌý ZBUS8317 Workforce Planning (S1)
2.ÌýÌýÌýÌý ZBUS8314 People and Systems (S1)
3.ÌýÌýÌýÌý ZPEM8311 Data Analysis and Applications (S1)
4.ÌýÌýÌýÌý ZEIT8305 Systems Thinking and Modelling (S1)
5.ÌýÌýÌýÌý ZEIT8307 System Dynamics Modelling (S2)
Two prescribed electives from the following:
ZBUS8101 Strategic Management (S1 and S2)
ZBUS8103 Strategic Human Resources (S2)
ZBUS8147 Business of Managing Projects (S1 and S2)
ZBUS8148 Economic World View (S2)
ZBUS8149 Finance for Decision-Making (not offered in 2023; will be offered in S2 2024)
ZBUS8210 Critical Analysis in Business (S1 and S2)
ZBUS8315 Driving Performance (S2)
ZBUS8316 Developing Organisational Capability (S2)
Defence-funded students:
ZBUS8503 Workforce Planning Research (capstone course, final semester)
All other students: Free Elective
Any Masters-level (8000 level) course from ¹ú²ú¾«Æ· Canberra.
If you are seeking credit, please contact Dr Fiona Buick (f.buick@adfa.edu.au) to discuss options and determine what is appropriate and possible.
Code | Course | Semester 1 - 2024 | Semester 2 - 2024 |
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People and Systems | Distance Mode | Not Offered | |
Workforce Planning | Distance Mode | Not Offered | |
Systems Thinking and Modelling | Distance Mode | Not Offered | |
Systems Dynamics Modelling | Not Offered | Distance Mode | |
Data Analysis and Applications | Not Offered | Distance Mode |
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Code | Course | Semester 1 - 2024 | Semester 2 - 2024 |
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Strategic Management | Distance Mode | Distance Mode | |
Strategic Human ResourcesÌý | Distance Mode | Not Offered | |
The Business of Managing Projects | Distance Mode | Distance Mode | |
Economic World View | Not Offered | Distance Mode | |
Finance for Decision-Making | Distance Mode | Not Offered | |
Critical Analysis in Business | Distance Mode | Distance Mode | |
Driving Performance | Not Offered | Distance Mode | |
Developing Organisational Capability | Not Offered | Distance Mode | |
Research Project – Business | Distance Mode | Distance Mode | |
Research Project – Business | Distance Mode | Distance Mode | |
Workforce Planning Research | Not Offered | Distance Mode |
The course overview states that the Workforce Planning Research Course:
will use workforce planning data to underpin a research project. In conjunction with supervisors, students will identify a specific Defence workforce planning issue that their data can help resolve. The research project will use skills developed throughout the Master of Workforce Planning (8561) to analyse and present the data in ways that will enable better decision making.
The timeframes to undertake the course ZBUS8503 Workforce Planning Research are very tight, so students without a clearly defined project and access to data by the time the semester commences would not be able to proceed.
Two things need to happen:
We recommend students build their project over the duration of their program, rather than leaving it to ZBUS8503. Please note that full-time students will undertake ZBUS8503 and ZEIT8307 concurrently (in the same semester), with part-time students’ enrolment depending on their enrolment plan.