Undergraduate - UnitMGC2420 - Employee relations

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2014 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

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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	Clayton Second semester 2014 (Day)
Coordinator(s)	Dr Glennis Hanley

Synopsis

The subject focuses on the changing nature of work and the implications of this for labour and management at the workplace. Topics include new technology and team working; employee financial participation; training and skill formation; equal opportunity and managing diversity; and occupational health and safety.

Outcomes

The learning goals associated with this unit are to:

identify and explain the changing nature of work and employment
describe the process of labour market deregulation and analyse the consequences for employees, managers and society
identify and explain labour process theories and their application to post-industrial societies
identify critical issues which confront employee relations and human resource managers in a dynamic environment.