Employment relations policy and practice
Mr Richard Gough
6 points * One 2-hour lecture and one 1-hour tutorial per week * Distance approximately 12 hours per week * First semester * Gippsland * Prerequisite: GBU3309
Objectives The subject objective is to provide the understanding necessary for analysis of workplace employment relations and framing of employment relations policies. It aims also to extend and apply the knowledge of employment relations concepts and systems, and the behavioural, economic, legal and management principles developed in core and foundation subjects. It focuses on the impact of the changing national and international environments on workplace employment relations, and the contribution of clearly articulated employment relations policies to organisational performance.
Synopsis The emphasis of this subject will be on the operational aspects of industrial relations. Teaching will be by the case study approach and will include the changing local and international context, industrial relations policy development, collective bargaining and collective agreements, negotiation, the decentralisation of wage fixing, wages and incomes policy, enterprise bargaining , dispute resolution and current issues.
Assessment Assignment 1 (3000 words): 20% * Assignment 2 (3000 words): 30% * Examination (3 hours): 50% * Students must obtain a satisfactory result in all areas of assessment.
Prescribed texts
Easson M and Shaw J Transforming industrial relations Pluto, 1990
Mathews J Tools of change: New technology and the democratisation of work Pluto, 1989
Niland J and Clarke O Agenda for change: An international analysis of industrial relations in transition Allen and Unwin, 1991
Trade Union Training Authority Enterprise bargaining handbook TUTA, 1994