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Study postgraduate business & management online with Griffith University through Open Universities Australia. Explore all degrees, subjects and short courses now.

The Graduate Certificate in Human Resource Management is designed for people who generally have limited prior knowledge or experience of HRM but who are seeking to move into the industry as human resource management professionals. It is comprised of a concise set of advanced courses in the functional areas of HRM, providing an excellent foundation for advancing your knowledge in human resource management, as well as a pathway into the masters program.

Research existing and emerging industry methods, change management, legal and social issues and organisational structure. Learn to deliver change in an ethical and impartial way. Career options in HR, recruitment, selection and performance management.

Graduate Certificate in Human Resource Management

In this degree you will gain the knowledge, skills and management expertise needed to understand and master management practices in the aviation industry. You will be able to apply your management skills to many areas of the aviation industry including: airlines, air traffic service providers, maintenance and repair organisations, and government organisations, such as the Civil Aviation Safety Authority.

Meet the needs of the dynamic aviation industry. Give yourself a competitive edge. Prepare yourself for work in the airline industry or with government organisations, like the Australian Defence Force and the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA).

Graduate Certificate in Aviation Management

Learn the skills necessary to enact a new kind of safety leadership that puts a focus on the practical expertise needed to get the job done. This graduate certificate will help you advance from the simple, linear cause-effect thinking that has typically characterised safety work in Australia and help you to challenge pre-occupations with process and compliance. You will learn about resilience, complexity science and holism and be taken on an exciting journey into a new era of safety.You will study a range of theories that focus on why accidents happen and how they can be prevented, including normal accidents theory, human reliability theory, as well as structural and interpretational perspectives to risk and safety. With this knowledge, you will be capable of critiquing safety practices and comparing and contrasting the strengths and weaknesses of accident models, ensuring your analysis and critical thinking can help improve safety systems in your own workplace.By looking beyond the narrow understandings of safety that still exist at many organisations and institutions, you will understand how to address safety using safety management systems and the processes and procedures that have proven roles in achieving high safety standards. Importantly, you&#39;ll view people as a solution to safety issues, not the problem, putting empathy at the centre of your plans to create a safe workplace.

Launch or advance your safety career with this postgraduate OHS qualification. Broaden your understanding of safety beyond the norm and make workplaces safer. Explore current theory, learn from experienced academics, and make industry connections.

Graduate Certificate in Safety Leadership

This Masters degree covers essential areas of human resource management including strategy and HR, evidence-based HRM, organisational change, international and comparative HRM, recruitment and selection, and performance and reward management. You will gain a critical appreciation of the role and practice of human resource management in local and global business.This degree will further develop and deepen your understanding of key policy formulation, negotiation and implementation matters pertaining to the employment relationship in dynamic contexts. It encompasses workplace and institutional practices and strategies, employment law, negotiation and dispute resolution, managing equity and diversity, workplace health and safety, managing rewards and performance and employment relations strategy. It will deepen your understanding of the management of employment relations.

Explore human resource management at an advanced level. Deepen your understanding of employment law, workplace health and safety and managing diversity. Develop your leadership skills so that you can help individuals and organisations thrive.

Master of Human Resource Management and Employment Relations

This qualification will help you drive change in water management by helping you to gain the leadership skills required to exert effective influence.You&#39;ll construct an individual leadership development plan and be coached through the elements of that plan to effectively develop your ability to drive challenging change projects in water management.The degree is tailored to the water sector and is based on research into effective leadership development in the water sector, meaning you&#39;ll directly develop relevant leadership skills for your work as a water professional.

Get ready to make sustainable changes to water management strategies and practices. You’ll cover the critical skills leaders need in today’s complex regulatory and business environments. Work on a real water leadership project. Build industry connections.

Graduate Certificate in Water Leadership

Globally, financial crime and money laundering costs companies, governments and individuals more than $1.45 trillion, according to the World Economic Forum. Additionally, compliance obligations are ever evolving as regulatory requirements, technology advances and inefficient operations cause rise to new and various risks that need to be mitigated. The Graduate Certificate in Financial Crime Investigation and Compliance will equip you with fundamental knowledge to ensure compliance as well as provide a pathway to completion of the Graduate Diploma in Financial Crime Investigation and Compliance.

Build skills to detect and report financial crime. You’ll learn about current financial crimes including money laundering and terrorism financing. Unpack the financial services industry’s obligations. Keep up with evolving technology and regulations.

Graduate Certificate in Financial Crime Investigation and Compliance

The Graduate Certificate in Leadership and Management is designed to suit the professional development needs of middle level managers in industry and government, enhancing existing practice and preparing for more senior leadership roles.Developed and taught by industry professionals in active leadership roles, this degree is focused on practical organisational challenges. You&#39;ll learn about contemporary management and leadership practice and apply this knowledge to current scenarios from your workplace.You&#39;ll develop an understanding of the different types and purposes of teams, and learn how to boost team performance through effective leadership. You&#39;ll hone your creative thinking skills and be equipped to convert great ideas into reality through collaboration and positive risk-taking. As a graduate, you&#39;ll have the skills and knowledge to translate vision and strategy into action and effectively manage transformation in your organisation.

Learn about contemporary leadership and management from active industry professionals. Navigate complex business environments with confidence. Harness the power of teams. Boost your career or continue your leadership journey with MBA eligibility.

Graduate Certificate in Leadership and Management

Marketing is fast-paced, exciting and always challenging. It is an ideal career if you are creative, analytical and a good communicator. In the Graduate Certificate in Marketing you will gain a solid base of knowledge and expertise in the latest techniques and technologies in consumer behaviour, market research and integrated marketing communications.

Flex your creative muscles with a career in marketing. With this certificate, you’ll create the knowledge needed to tackle strategy, branding, consumer behaviour, metrics and more. Leave with the skills to take on management positions in the field. 

Graduate Certificate in Marketing

You will gain the knowledge, skills and vision needed to accept and master the challenge of changing management practices in the aviation industry.

Get set to engage with the changing management needs of the aviation industry. Prepare yourself for work in the airline industry or with government organisations, like the Australian Defence Force and the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA).

Master of Aviation Management

This program provides the necessary breadth and depth of public management skills to advance your career both within the public sector and in the increasingly important area of the private-public sector interface.Experts from across the Griffith Business School teach into the program, drawing on a wide-range of discipline knowledge applied to both business and government contexts. The teaching team consists of academics with experience working in a variety of governmental roles and those at the cutting edge of public sector research and analysis.A public administration qualification is globally recognised and this program is designed to fit around your busy professional and personal schedules.This program includes a dissertation option. The dissertation can provide a pathway to a higher degree by research for candidates with the qualifying <abbr title="Grade Point Average">GPA</abbr>.

Advance your career in the public sector. Fit study in around your existing personal and professional schedule. Understand the importance of the private and public sector interface. Apply your knowledge across business and government contexts.

Master of Public Administration

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Work Health and Safety

Why Money Matters

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White Collar Crime

This subject was previously known as IRL160.
This subject provides you with a practical and theoretical understanding of health and safety in Australian workplaces. The subject examines the legal obligations in the workplace and risk management. You will have an opportunity to transfer theoretical knowledge to practice by undertaking analysis of a workplace, a practical exercise which will also require you to consider the theoretical aspects of the Workplace Health &amp; Safety problems that you discover.

Identify hazards in the workplace. Pore over the Work Health and Safety Act. Learn the four-step risk management procedure designed to protect workers from work hazards.Build a strong theoretical foundation for your health and safety studies.

The reality of work has changed radically, and human resource management practices have evolved with these changes. The rise of the knowledge economy means intellectual capital management is crucial. In this course you will apply theoretical perspectives to interpret and critically evaluate the changing nature of work and work arrangements and the implications these changes pose for managers. Critical issues revolving around the impact of technological augmentation and disruptions will also be examined. With thorough knowledge of policies and strategies to manage organizations human, social and structural intellectual resources in a dynamic working environment, you will be able to create frameworks for building relevant future-focused competencies and innovations in the workplace.

With the changes to the global economy, the way people work is changing. Learn about the likely impacts of automation, outsourcing, knowledge work, collaboration and organisational change. Understand strategies to plan for the future of work.

The Purpose and Future of Work

This subject examines up-to-date theory and practice related to the management of human resources and employment relations in the 21st-century. Issues and challenges related to institutional conditions that affect employment relationship factors are canvassed. The global, knowledge intensive context, characterised by the blurring of employment boundaries and evolving organisational forms, will provide a backdrop for the content analysis.

Meet the stakeholders who make up the employment relationship. Analyse human resource’s role in managing these relationships. Explore performance and reward management concepts. Juxtapose employee unions with employer associations.

Principles of Human Resource Management and Employment Relations

Note: This subject was previously titled &quot;Organisational Change.&quot;From the mid-18th century to the present time we have witnessed a series of major technological innovations that have transformed business, work and jobs. Examples include the steam engine, electricity and steel, Henry Ford&#39;s production line system of manufacturing and, nearer our own time I.T. biotechnology and nanotechnology. The Austrian economist, Joseph Schumpeter famously referred to such innovations as &quot;gales of creative destruction&quot; old industries being swept away, to be replaced by new ones. Schumpeter&#39;s gales of creative destruction continue to impact business, work and jobs. Organizations now have to compete globally; organizational structures have to be flatter, work contracts more flexible, business functions more interlinked, and strategies more innovation-based. Business has become a learning race, with human talent and intangible intellectual capabilities at its core. This course is about how contemporary organizations are dealing with these issues and what we can learn from their attempts to anticipate, adjust to and take advantage of change. The course is both theoretical and practical with insights being provided from the academic literature and businesses. We will look at change from an organizational perspective and seek the answers to a number of questions that are important to those of us that live our lives in organizations. What is happening in the world that may deliver changes in the future? What is the best way to manage change? What do I do if I am asked to lead a change? How do we effectively implement a change? What do we do about resistance? How can we better adapt to the changes we encounter as employees?

Equip yourself with the know-how to manage the core totems of organisational policy.Study human resources, employment relations and work health and safety policies. Explore program theory. Draw on proven frameworks and theoretical literature.

Leading Policy and Organisational Change

The recruitment and selection of the best employees is central to organisational success. Recruitment and selection policies and practices are core processes within all organisations, across all industries and irrespective of country. Success and failure of organisations can often be attributed to strengths and weaknesses with the recruitment and selection process.
However, these activities need to be carried out within a legislative framework that increasingly influences our practice. This degree will provide you with an understanding of the activities involved in the more complex and difficult areas of recruitment and selection, from the viewpoint of a human resource practitioner and/or business manager.

Integrate your knowledge of the practices at the core of recruitment and selection.Gather together applicant assessment strategies. Look into the internal and external labour markets. See how social and legal factors drive the recruitment process.

Recruitment and Selection

This subject provides the opportunity to develop professional HR skills through the examination and application of adult learning theories and frameworks to individual, group and organisational development needs and challenges. Learning and development processes, strategies, plans and costing frameworks are applied to the analysis of contemporary HR cases and problems. Content includes development of skills in training and facilitation processes, feedback and communication, strategic HRD, as well as consideration of the role of HR professionals in this area.

Widen the scope of your human resource studies as you polish your HR skills.Assess individual, group and organisational human resource development needs. Take in advanced leadership theories. Look to the future of HR learning and development

Human Resource Development

This subject was previously known as IRL120.
This subject examines the system of laws governing the employment relationship in Australia, the policy issues concerning the role of law in employment relations and introduces legal research methods, interpretation of case and statute law and legal writing. It provides you with an opportunity to learn about the system of laws which regulate individual and collective employment relationships in a way which will equip you with life-long skills necessary to find and understand the law in our rapidly changing legal environment.

Look back on the history of collective bargaining and industrial disputes. Assess unfair dismissal, workplace health and safety and discrimination regulations. Evaluate the laws that govern the relationship between employees and employers.

Regulation of Employment Relationships

This subject was previously known as IRL130.
This subject is about negotiating in an employment relations context. Negotiation and Dispute Resolution is essential for any student wishing to expand their knowledge about the negotiation process at the workplace and in society more generally. It is imperative that practitioners of industrial relations, employment relations and human resource management appreciate the role of conflict and conflict resolution processes and strategies. Negotiation and Dispute Resolution explores negotiating tactics and strategies, as well as dispute resolution issues. The aim of the subject is to equip students to become effective negotiators. The subject involves extensive online group work.

Talk through the essentials of workplace negotiation processes and dispute resolutions.Highlight negotiation tactics and strategies. Learn how to handle issues of emotion and perception during a dispute. Strengthen your own negotiation skills.

Negotiation and Dispute Resolution

This subject was previously known as IRL170.With the increasing recognition of intellectual capital as a key sustainable competitive advantage, the HR discipline has rapidly evolved from being transactional to transformational. In their role as change agents and strategic business partners, HR professionals need to overhaul the tools of their trade by adopting a systems, contingency and global perspective. This course develops an understanding of the relationships between business strategy, organisational change strategy and HRM strategy. The course adopts a holistic understanding of HR roles and functions by looking at key concepts, such as resource based view of the firm, individual and firm performance, sectoral differentiation and corporate ethics as well as strategic influencing factors such as knowledge management, HR metrics and technology. It uses innovative assessment tasks, such as debates and reflective journals to internalise the implementation aspects of SHRM.

Examine where employment relations and HR management intersect. Draft your own employment relations strategies.Ask if organisations are more influenced by the push of legislation or the pull of internal strategy when defining employment relations.

HRM and Employment Relations Strategy

This subject was previously known as IRL150.The course is intended to provide an overview of the main issues involved in performance management, including rationales for conducting it, the costs and benefits of performance management, alternatives to it and expected as well as unintended outcomes that may emerge from it. The history of performance management is examined. Different techniques for conducting performance evaluations are critically examined, as are the links between performance evaluation and systems of remuneration and opportunities for training and promotion. Finally the role of performance evaluation in different industries and occupations is examined.

Encounter the stakeholders, challenges and factors that influence performance and rewards management.Compare approaches to merit-based and results-based rewards programs. See how compensation practices are tethered to organisational strategies.

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