CVEN9742 Professional Civil Engineering

Workshop 1 – 14Feb24

1. Individual Assignment – Dot-point Brief

You should be sourcing your reference material for the Company that
you are reporting during Week 1. Use the internet, company Annual
Reports, the company/ organisation’s website, completed projects,
newspaper reporting as the primary research starting points.
You might even make enquires with a UNSW librarian in seeking out
other sources of information. Note that the Dot-point Brief is due in Week
3 and the submission portal within the Moodle will be open from the
beginning of Week 2 for you to upload your submission.

2. Individual Assignment – Reflective Journal

• A full outline of the requirements for this Individual

Assessment task will be available separately

• For CVEN9742 its worth makes up 35% of the marks

• Each week is regarded as a Chapter that you will journal

• In compiling your Reflective Journal it needs to be done on a

regular basis (Hint: Make it a weekly occurrence!)

• Address the themes of the Lecture/ Workshop

• Write responses to the Workshop issues

• Then address specifically the two important or interesting

experiences/ knowledge items for you in the week

• In addressing these two key points are five aspects that you
need to address:

1. What did I learn in class/ out of class about the weekly

topic?
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2. Why are those experiences/ knowledges important to

my future as an engineer/ manager?
3. How will I use those new experiences/ knowledges
right now as a professional student and/ or employee?

4. What else do I need to do to enable me to confidently

use this experience/ knowledge?

5. What did I do well this week and what else do I need to

do to improve next week?

3. In the organisation in you work (or have work in previously)

complete the ‘Examples of identifiable activities’ in the
Minzberg managerial roles table within the Lecture 1.

If you have never been employed pick an Engineering

Construction organisation and/ or a current Construction
Project and proceed to identify the ‘examples’.

Allow 15 minutes in the Workshop to prepare and 15 minutes

of open class discussion

4. In the Lecture slide: “Why implement organisational change”

It lists: Forces of change.
For your selected organisation (in 3. above) outline some of
the Forces of change to which the organisation is currently
having to deal with in conducting its business.

5. For your organisation provide a short outline of how it has

implemented steps for each of the six strategies:

i. Education and communication

ii. Participation

iii. Facilitation and support

iv. Negotiation

v. Manipulation and co-optation

vi. Coercion
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in changing or reinventing the organisation.

The three journal articles listed for this week are for background
reading of how Construction related organisations are dealing with
the change matters.