Practice Context/e-Learning activities/Finding the organisational strategies and priorities of your employer.

e-Learning activity summary
Title:	Finding the organisational strategies and priorities of your employer.
	1 - 2 hours
	Finding and exploring the organisational strategies and priorities of your employer.

Start here

Stimulus: Tertiary Education Strategy Read section 1.2 Vision for tertiary education, pages 6 & 7, and section 2.1 The Government’s tertiary education priorities for the next three to five years, page 10 of the Tertiary Education Strategy 2010 to 2015.

Purpose

To help you find and start to explore the organisational strategies and priorities of your employer.

Tasks

:1. Reflect on the stimulus reading.

‘Employer” refers to the organisation/institution that you work for.

In relation to the two sections read from of the Tertiary Education Strategy reflect on and consider the following questions:

• Do you think your employer has a similar vision to the Ministry of Education?

• Do you think your employer shares any of the same priorities as the Ministry of Education?

2. Seek resources

• Does your employer have documentation that outlines the organisational strategies and priorities such as mission and vision statements, and a strategic directions plan?

• Do you know where to find this documentation? Internal communications networks and the organisation's website are good starting points to search. Ask colleagues if you are unsure.

• Find your organisation’s/institution’s documentation around strategies and priorities and identify what the key points are.

• Reflect on these key points. Do you consider them relevant to your own work? Note your reflections in your learning journal.
• Share where you found the documentation with others in the course using the Moodle Discussion forum.
  
  

Learning outcome actions

Identify and become familiar with the strategies and priorities of your employer Use the learning from this module to begin thinking about the relevance to your own work.