Employment Relations
MAN232
Overview
Level of study: What does Undergraduate Level 2 mean?
Undergraduate Level 2
EFTSL: What does EFTSL mean?
0.125
Delivery Method: What does delivery method mean?
Web Dependent
Prerequisites: What are the prerequisites?
Duration:
12 weeks
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Domestic student fee:
$1,090.00 (AUD)
International student fee:
$1,315.00 (AUD)
Description
Examine issues relating to employment relations within an Australian context. You are presented with an overview of the economic, legal and social elements of employment relationships and the management of commitment and discontent in the workplace. You explore the role of the parties in dispute, from the workers, employers, their collective organisations and the state. You also cover the processes of regulation, conciliation and arbitration, individual contracts, enterprise bargaining and negotiation. Finally, the unit addresses employment practices, international influences on employment relations and equity and justice in the workplace.
Note: If you are considering studying towards the Monash Bachelor of Business Studies, please be advised that this course is only available to students who registered prior to 1 October, 2010.
If you are studying Monash units towards other OUA degrees, any Monash units you enrol in and successfully complete between now and Study Period 4, 2011 which already credit into other OUA degrees will continue to be credited into those degrees.
Prerequisites
Recommended prerequisites
You are recommended to have completed the following unit(s) or have equivalent knowledge before starting this unit:
- MAN11 — Introduction to Management
Assessment
- Assignment 1 (15%)
- Assignment 2 (35%)
- Invigilated Exam (50%)
Learning Outcomes
At the completion of this unit students will be able 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 at 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.
Topics
This unit addresses the following topics.
| Number | Topic |
|---|---|
| 1 | What is employment relations? |
| 2 | Conceptual tools for understanding ER |
| 3 | The changing context of ER |
| 4 | The legal environment |
| 5 | The state |
| 6 | Management |
| 7 | Employee voice: Unions |
| 8 | Employee voice : Non-unions |
| 9 | Bargaining structure and processes |
| 10 | Industrial conflict |
| 11 | Negotiation and conflict management |
| 12 | ER and performance |
Study Resources
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Relevant Courses
This unit is an approved elective in the following courses:
- Bachelor of Business Studies, Monash University
- Bachelor of Behavioural Studies (Psychology), Swinburne University of Tnlgy
- Bachelor of Behavioural Studies, Swinburne University of Tnlgy
- Bachelor of Business, Swinburne University of Tnlgy
- Bachelor of Technology (Information Systems), Swinburne University of Tnlgy
- Bachelor of Arts (Librarianship and Corporate Information Management), Curtin University
This unit may be eligible for credit towards other courses:
- Many undergraduate courses on offer through OUA include 'open elective' where any OUA unit can be credited to the course. You need to check the Award Requirements on the course page for the number of allowed open electives and any level limitations.
- In other cases, the content of this unit might be relevant to a course on offer through OUA or elsewhere. In order to receive credit for this unit in the course you will need to supply the provider institution with a copy of the Unit Profile in the approved format, which you can download here. Note that the Unit Profile is set at the start of the year, and if textbooks change this may not match the Unibooks textbook list.
