Strategic Workplace Issues
PostgraduateUND-BUSN57402024
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- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 13 weeks
- Loan available
- FEE-HELP available
Strategic Workplace Issues
About this subject
At the completion of this course you should be able to:
- Outline the key issues impacting on contemporary workplaces;
- Analyse these issues and explain their significance;
- Identify a range of practical strategies to address these issues; and
- Develop strong business cases to support strategies;
- Effectively facilitate a group discussion
- Examination of emotional intelligence
- Bullying
- Casualisation
- Decruitment
- Absenteeism
- Grievances
- Dismissal
- Executive remuneration
- Outsourcing
- Bargaining
- Operating statutes and other legislation
This course covers a variety of pertinent and evolving workplace issues, which are researched, analysed, developed and workshopped. Workplace culture and structure provides the basis for an examination of emotional intelligence, bullying, casualisation, decruitment, absenteeism, grievances, dismissal, executive remuneration, outsourcing, and bargaining. Students are expected to develop and apply policies and procedures, which rely on individual work experience within the context of the currently operating statutes and other legislation enabling efficient HRM outcomes for the organisation.
- Quizzes (8 quizzes, 5% each) (40%)
- MS Excel based assignments (15% each) (30%)
- Analysis and reporting (30%)
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Entry requirements
Part of a degree
To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:
Core
- UND-LDR-MAS-2024 - Master of Leadership
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
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Related degrees
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
PostgraduateUND-LDR-MAS