Canberra College

Assessment Period: 2025 S2

Course: BUSINESS
Unit: Leading a Business (1.0)
Accreditation: T
Year: 12

Specific Unit Goals

This unit should enable students to:
evaluate the principles and theories related to leadership, and managing people,
operations, and change to understand effective management and leadership practices
critically analyse case studies of business leadership from contemporary local,
national, and global businesses
synthesize critical thinking and mathematical skills to undertake work force planning
and management decisions
critically analyse enterprises and think creatively to propose viable solutions
Content Descriptions
Knowledge and Understanding
evaluate principles and theories related to leadership, and managing people,
operations, and change to understand effective management and leadership practices,
for example, the employment cycle, leadership approaches and styles, production
systems, quality control
critically analyse case studies of business leadership from contemporary local,
national, and global businesses, for example, film studies- The Intern (2015),
Bombshell (2019), Richard Branson, Sheryl Sandberg
synthesize critical thinking and mathematical skills to undertake work force planning
and management decisions, for example, human resources operational data, labour
turnover, retention strategies, Working from home and productivity metrics
Contexts
evaluate contemporary management practices for emerging challenges and
opportunities, and in the context of intercultural, ethical, and regulatory requirements,
for example, leading and management in the gig economy, four-day work week
Skills
synthesise business knowledge and skills in communication and planning to support
creative problem solving and project work, for example, the great resignation, flexible
work arrangements, staff shortages, absenteeism
synthesise business knowledge and critical and creative thinking and problem-solving
skills to business contexts
synthesise business knowledge and understanding and research skills, using relevant
business sources critically, and employs academic integrity
synthesise communication skills and knowledge and understanding to present
Business ideas using arguments to justify conclusions and recommendations using
Business terminology
Reflection
reflect on own individual and collaborative activities and learning to consider
improvements, for example, Kolb’s Learning Cycle, Rolfe’s Framework of Reflective
Practice, Gibbs Reflective Cycle
reflect on own place in relation to leadership concepts and on links to their world for
example, yarning circles

Assessment Tasks
Name Due Date Weighting
Research Task Week 5 (double lesson): 18 August - 22 August 30%
Exam Week 8: 8 September - 12 September 40%
Presentation Week 14-15: 3 November - 14 November 30%

Specific Unit Information

Students investigate the principles and theories related to leadership, and managing people,
operations, and change. They critically analyse case studies of business leadership from contemporary
local, national, and global businesses. Students evaluate contemporary management practices
considering emerging challenges and opportunities, and in the context of intercultural, ethical, and
regulatory requirements.

School Assessment Information

Penalties for late and non-submission of work
LATE ATTEMPTS:

· Students should note that assessment items may not be accepted more than 7 days past the due date.
Late assessment items cannot be accepted once marked work has been returned to other students.
· Students who provide a valid reason (with supporting evidence and documentation) for submitting an
assignment late or not sitting an assessment validation or examination on the set date will be able to
negotiate a new date with their teacher for their submission/attempt within a week of the original date.
See BSSS Policy and Procedure Manual 4.2.9.1 for further information.
Academic integrity
See BSSS Policy and Procedure Manual 4.2.10 for further information.
Appeals processes
See BSSS Policy and Procedure Manual 7.3 for further information.
Moderation procedures (internal and external)
See BSSS Policy and Procedure Manual 5 for further information.
Meshing procedures
See BSSS Policy and Procedure Manual 5.4.1 for further information.
Method of unit score calculation
See BSSS Policy and Procedure Manual 4.2.6.2 for further information.
Procedures for calculating course scores
See BSSS Policy and Procedure Manual 4.2.11.2 for further information.
Other School assessment policies
https://www.canberrac.act.edu.au/information/handbook
Achievement Standards for BUSINESS T - Year 12

A student who achieves an A A student who achieves a B A student who achieves a C A student who achieves a D A student who achieves an E
grade typically grade typically grade typically grade typically grade typically
● critically analyses data, trends, ● analyses data, trends, case studies ● explains data, trends, case studies ● describes data, simple trends and ● identifies data from a case study
case studies or examples from or examples from relevant local, or examples from relevant local, case studies or examples from and related commerce ideas in
relevant local, national and global national and global contexts by national and global contexts and by relevant local national and global expressing ideas about commerce
Knowledge and understanding

contexts by selecting relevant selecting relevant commerce applying commerce concepts and contexts and describes relevant
● identifies sustainable and ethical
commerce concepts and theories and concepts and theories and applying theories simple commerce concepts and
features in expressing ideas about
applying them accurately them accurately theories
● explains the relevant universality, commerce
● critically analyses the universality, ● analyses the universality, sustainability and ethics of commerce ● describes the sustainable and ● identifies possible solutions to
sustainability and ethics of commerce sustainability and ethics of commerce ideas and enterprises to reach ethical features of commerce ideas problems in expressing ideas about
ideas and enterprises to reach well- ideas and enterprises to reach logical reasonable conclusions and enterprises commerce
researched and logical conclusions conclusions ● creates plausible solutions to ● describes possible solutions to
● communicates commerce ideas
● creates insightful solutions to ● creates well-founded solutions to identified problems, informed by identified problems, using research
and recommendations
identified problems, informed by identified problems, informed by research using commerce concepts
● communicates simple commerce
critical research using selected research using selected commerce and theories
ideas to justify conclusions and
commerce concepts and theories concepts and theories accurately
● communicates commerce ideas to recommendations using some simple
accurately
● communicates commerce ideas justify conclusions and terminology
● communicates complex commerce using well-informed logical and recommendations using appropriate
ideas using well-informed logical and reasoned arguments to justify terminology
reasoned arguments to justify conclusions and recommendations
conclusions and recommendations using appropriate terminology
using appropriate terminology in
speaking and writing
● applies research methods using a ● applies research methods using ● applies research methods using ● describes information related to a ● identifies information using
wide range of relevant, rigorous relevant commerce sources and reliable general sources and question and derived from minimal research related to the question with
commerce sources critically, and systematic referencing systematic referencing sources with minimal referencing minimal referencing
employs accurate systematic
● selects mathematical methods to ● uses mathematical methods to ● describes evidence using ● uses mathematical and/or graphic
referencing
analyse evidence and/or graphic acquire and organise evidence and/or mathematical and/or graphic methods methods to identify evidence
● selects mathematical methods to methods to represent evidence clearly graphic method to explain evidence
● reflects on learning and work habits ● reflects on learning and work habits
analyse evidence accurately and/or
● reflects coherently on own learning ● reflects on learning habits, and notes better habits
Skills

graphic methods to represent

habits, individual and collaborative individual and collaborative work ● reflects on commerce concepts and ● reflects on commerce concepts and
evidence coherently
work habits, and plausible strategies habits, and some strategies to identifies features of the world the nature of the world
● reflects insightfully and coherently to improve improve
on own learning habits, individual and ● reflects on own learning about ● reflects on learning about
collaborative work habits, and commerce concepts and commerce concepts and links to their
effective strategies to improve understanding and links to their world world
● reflects insightfully and coherently
on own learning about commerce
concepts and links their world