The Future of Work

• Topics

  • The new economy
  • The growing importance of intellectual capital
  • Technological and industrial change
  • Organizational change
  • New work arrangements
  • The future workplace
  • Work-life integration
  • New management systems
  • Human capital strategies and frameworks
  • New stakeholder partnerships
  • International and global perspectives

• Study resources

  • Instructional Methods

    • Audio/Video conferencing
    • Chat Rooms
    • Disscusion forum/Discussion Board
    • Online assignment submission
    • Podcasting/Leacture capture
    • Standard Media
    • Web links

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

Elective

• GRF-EMP-MAS-2018
• OUA-PSU-GCE-2018

Special requirements

• EquipmentDetails - Audio/Visual equipment

This subject explores the future of work in a rapidly globalizing, knowledge and service-intensive economy. Advances in IT and associated technologies are enabling firms to automate and /or outsource routine work, displacing the jobs of low-skilled workers, while enhancing the power of knowledge workers. In parallel, new industries and forms of collaborative and distance-based work are emerging, offering new challenges and opportunities.  This subject investigates the causes of technological, industrial and organizational change and their potential impacts on work arrangements and stakeholder relationships. Strategies and policies for managing change and coping with the new world of work are outlined, drawing on latest research from Australia and other countries.

• Assignment 1 (25%)
• Assignment 2 (35%)
• Assignment 3 (40%)

Textbooks are subject to change within the academic year. Students are advised to purchase their books no earlier than one to two months before the start of a subject.