Principles of Human Resource Management and Employment Relations

• • Introduction to the course
  • Employment relations and human resource management
  • Employment from a historic and economic perspective
  • Employment regulation and legislation
  • Unions and employer associations
  • Equity and diversity
  • Workplace health and safety
  • Recruitment and selection
  • Learning and development
  • Performance management
  • Reward management
  • Reality of work
  • Course summary and exam preparation

In order to enrol in this subject, you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:

Core

• GRF-HRM-GCE-2021
• GRF-EMP-GCE-2021

Elective

• OUA-PSU-GCE-2021
• GRF-EMP-MAS-2021
• UNE-PRO-GCE-2021

Special requirements

No special requirements

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.

• Assignment 1 (10%)
• Assignment 2 (50%)
• Online Exam (40%)