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Develop solid foundations in modern business with La Trobe’s Bachelor of Business. Prepare to thrive in a digitally disrupted world with this highly flexible degree and start building your dream career in business.You’ll explore multiple business disciplines in your first year and develop foundational knowledge and enterprise skills in areas such as management, organisational structures, data analytics and ethical business practices. You’ll choose from a wide range of majors, minors and optional second majors. You can also pair your major with complementary study from another discipline.No matter how you specialise, you’ll get hands-on experience and learn the latest digital skills while developing essential leadership, communication and critical-thinking skills.You’ll develop your professional business skills as you work in diverse teams, present business strategies and use the software that’s essential in modern business.You’ll graduate with the perfect blend of business fundamentals and technical expertise so you can change the business world.You&#39;ll learn:<ul><li>Digital literacy<ul><li>Use a wide range of digital and data-processing tools to analyse business activity and become a more effective business professional.</li></ul></li><li>Management and business structures<ul><li>Understand how to communicate, collaborate and connect with your business peers and stakeholders.</li></ul></li><li>Economics<ul><li>Discover how business and society connect. Understand economic principles and use them to create business solutions.</li></ul></li><li>Sustainability<ul><li>Learn about environmental, corporate and governance responsibility. Develop sustainable solutions that prioritise individual and societal wellbeing.</li></ul></li></ul>

Get set to innovate, problem-solve, and communicate like a professional. Along with a solid business foundation, in this degree you’ll learn digital business skills and get hands-on experience. Choose your major and start building your dream career.

Bachelor of Business

Remuneration and Performance Management

Recruitment and Selection

In this subject you will examine contemporary remuneration and performance management practices from theoretical and applied perspectives. You will focus on debates about moves away from &#39;traditional&#39; position-based pay towards performance-related remuneration. You are encouraged to consider the relationships between reward systems and employee participation and their impacts on organisational performance at individual and group levels. This subject is built on research as well as real-life examples to explore issues in pay, performance management, motivation, strategy, fairness and organisational effectiveness. The subject provides you with the critical and analytical tools to evaluate the merits of diverse performance and reward management systems in modern business organisations.

The pace and volume of organisational change is drawing increasing attention to the ways that human resource development (HRD) activities can ensure that organisation members have what it takes to successfully meet these challenges. In this subject you will focus on an integrated and strategic approach to HRD which fosters a long-term, work-related learning capacity. You will examine the foundational concepts of HRD (including the theory of learning) and the HRD process from theoretical and practical perspectives. You will also examine HRD applications within modern business organisations including skills, and technical training, coaching, career management and, organisational development.

Human Resource Development

In this subject, you will examine the relationship between human resource management and organisational strategy and analyse the impact of high-performance work systems on employee attitudes and behaviours, and organisational performance. You will explore the impact of HR practices and initiatives on various employee-related metrics as well as organisational performance and will learn how to make data-driven decisions for strategically managing your organization&#39;s workforce. You will learn how to analyse and interpret qualitative and quantitative employee-related data to solve complex HR issues with new strategic proficiencies and develop an understanding of how HR analytics contributes to a more successful performance of HR’s strategic role.

Human Resource Analytics

Recruitment and selection practices are fundamental function of Human Resource Management. The ability to attract and secure a pool of high-quality talent within the organisation is crucial to meeting the organisation’s strategic goals and securing a sustainable competitive advantage. In this subject, you will acquire the knowledge and skills needed to design, build, implement and evaluate an effective recruitment and selection process. You will also explore the ethical and legal principles which govern recruitment and selection in Australia. You will also learn how to design and implement and effective job analysis and evaluation, to assist in determining the employee qualities that employers are looking for to perform the job in question.

In this subject you will explore the strategic and operational issues involved in managing staff in the workplace. You will examine the challenges facing human resource managers in contemporary Australian organisations and seeks to develop an understanding of human resource management practices in our continually changing social, economic, industrial relations and organisational environments. You will explore the reasons underpinning the increasing recognition of human resource management (HRM) within organisations as well as the field&#39;s underlying purposes. Throughout this subject an emphasis is placed on a strategic approach to HRM in addition to the functional and operational aspects.

Human Resource Management

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