MGX9180 - Employee relations

Leader: Dr Sandra Cockfield

Offered

Caulfield First semester 2007 (Evening)
Caulfield Second semester 2007 (Evening)

Synopsis

An introduction to employee relations at the workplace level focusing on workplace reform. Topics include the contract of employment; enterprise bargaining; workplace management and union structures; traditional management style and strategies, management strategies; employee participation; best practice; skill formation; and core/peripheral employment patterns; the external context of employee relations.

Objectives

The learning goals associated with this unit are to:

• examine the changing nature of work and employment in an international context
• identify and assess theoretical approaches that explain changes in work and employment
• understand the political economy in which the organisation and management of work takes place
• identify different forms of employee voice and participation and assess their effectiveness
• identify and analyse the employee relations challenges facing managers and other professionals in the workplace.

Assessment

Individual assignment (4000 words): 40%
Examination (3 hours): 60%

Contact hours

3-hour class per week