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Principles of Human Resource Management and Employment Relations
Postgraduate | GRF-EHR701 | 2018
Course information for 2018 intake
View information for 2019 course intakeMeet 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.
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- Subject may require attendance
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- -
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Principles of Human Resource Management and Employment Relations
About this subject
After successfully completing this degree 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
- Understand what unions do in employment
- Understand the role of the state in employment relations
- Critically appreciate the contributions that HR and IR theoretical paradigms make to understanding the world of employment and work
- 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
- Assessment guidance
- Workplace health and safety
- Recruitment and selection
- Learning and development
- Performance management
- Reward management
- Reality of work
- Course summary and exam preparation
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%)
- Invigilated Exam (40%)
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Entry requirements
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Additional requirements
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Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
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