Principles of Human Resource Management and Employment Relations
PostgraduateGRF-EHR7012025
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.
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- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- No ATAR needed, No prior study
- Duration
- 13 weeks
- Start dates
- 3 Mar 2025
- Loan available
- FEE-HELP available
Principles of Human Resource Management and Employment Relations
About this subject
After successfully completing this subject, you should be able to:
- Identify and understand the interests of the actors who constitute the employment relationship
- Identify and explain the key elements involved with managing the employment relationship
- Critically appreciate the contributions that HR and IR theoretical paradigms make to understanding the world of employment and work
- Understand the role of the HR professional and the HR function in organisations
This course evaluates student performance for Assurance of Learning purposes for the program learning objective (PLO): Apply advanced knowledge and skills which enhance employability and career paths.
- This subject is divided in to three modules:
- People at work
- - Introduction to the course,
- - Introduction to Industrial Relations and Human Resources,
- - Shifting Paradigms: HRM from a historic and economic perspective.
- Employment regulation
- - Industrial Relations Systems,
- - Unions and Employer Associations,
- - Employee Voice,
- - Workplace Health and Safety.
- Human resource management
- - Recruitment and Selection,
- - Learning and Development,
- - Managing Employee Performance,
- - Reward Management,
- - The Realities of Work and Course Review.
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.
Students should not enrol in this subject if they have completed: 7001EHR Principles of HRM & ER at Griffith University.
- Professional Practice Options Paper (20%)
- Essay (30%)
- Written Assignment (50%)
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No entry requirements
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
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What to study next?
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
Graduate Certificate in Employment Relations and Human Resource Management
PostgraduateGRF-EHR-GCE
PostgraduateOUA-PSU-GCE
Master of Human Resource Management and Employment Relations
PostgraduateGRF-EMP-MAS
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