Advocacy and negotiation
Ms Carol Fox
6 points
* One 3-hour session per week
* Second semester
* City
* Prerequisite: MGC9120 or MGC9130
Objectives On successful completion of this course students will have acquired the skills, techniques and knowledge necessary to engage in advocacy and/or negotiations in the Australian industrial relations system.
Synopsis This subject builds on previous courses in employee and industrial relations and focuses on the development of practitioner skills. Topics will include: preparation and presentation of cases and submissions before industrial relations and other administrative tribunals; negotiation and administration of the collective agreement. Among the specific issues dealt with are bargaining units; grievance and disciplinary procedures; unfair dismissals; strategy and tactics in industrial negotiations; management and union rights; drafting the collective agreement. Students will participate in an interest dispute negotiation as a member of a management or union negotiating team.
Assessment Tutorial paper: 30%
* Class test: 20%
* Negotiation
practice case study: 50%
Prescribed texts
Holdsworth W J Advocacy and negotiation in industrial relations Law Book, 1987
Recommended texts
Chamberlain N W and Kuhn J W Collective bargaining 3rd edn, McGraw-Hill, 1986
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