Undergraduate - UnitMGW2323 - Employment relations

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6 points, SCA Band 3, 0.125 EFTSL

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Level	Undergraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Business and Economics
Organisational Unit	Department of Management
Offered	Peninsula First semester 2013 (Day) Berwick Second semester 2013 (Day)
Coordinator(s)	Dr Sandra Cockfield

Synopsis

This unit focuses on employment relations issues, mainly in the Australian context. It includes an overview of the economic, legal and social elements of the employment relationship and the management of commitment and discontent in the workplace; the role of the parties: workers, employers, their collective organisations and the state; the processes of regulation: conciliation and arbitration, individual contracts, enterprise bargaining, negotiation; employment practises: pay, employment, work organisation and skill formation; international influences on employment relations; equity and justice in the workplace.

Outcomes

The learning goals associated with this unit are to:

apply ideas, concepts and theories to analyse employment relations in Australia
utilise international perspectives on significant employment relations issues for evaluating employment relations in Australia
identify and examine the relevant actors, institutions and processes and assess how they shape relations between management and workers a the workplace
identify and examine different perspectives and value systems in employment relations and assess how they influence the strategies and policies of the various parties
critically evaluate contemporary developments in employment relations at the international, national, industry and workplace levels
demonstrate in the individual summative assessment task the acquisition of a comprehensive understanding of the topics covered in this unit.