Monash University Business & Economics handbook 1995

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GBU8038

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: GBU8034

Objectives The subject provides an analysis of workplace employment relations and framing of employment relations policies. It aims to extend and apply the knowledge of employment relations concepts and systems and the behavioural, economic, legal and management principles developed in Year One 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 the industrial relationship. 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 TVTA, 1994


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