BUSM 2014 Enterprise Industrial Relations

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Credit Points 10

Legacy Code 200614

Coordinator Terri Mylett Opens in new window

Description Enterprise Industrial Relations builds participants' analytical and research abilities, developing capacity to identify, diagnose and engage with industrial relations challenges from different stakeholder perspectives. Participants work with real-world industrial relations, looking at individual employees' workplace and labour market experiences; the goals and activities of managers; and the role and practices of tribunals, enforcement agencies, employer associations and trade unions. This is done through activities that require working collaboratively on problems using online research to investigate contemporary practice, such as the drivers behind enterprise agreements and the implications of institutional arrangements and trade unions for productivity, equity and human resource utilisation. It is a core unit for the human resource management undergraduate program.

School Business

Discipline Industrial Relations

Student Contribution Band HECS Band 4 10cp

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Level Undergraduate Level 2 subject

Pre-requisite(s) BUSM 1023

Equivalent Subjects BUSM 2015 - Enterprise Industrial Relations

Restrictions

Note that only students enrolled at WSU Online may register in the WSU Online subjects offered at that location.

Assessment

The following table summarises the standard assessment tasks for this subject. Please note this is a guide only. Assessment tasks are regularly updated, where there is a difference your Learning Guide takes precedence.

Item Length Percent Threshold Individual/Group Task
Case Study 800 words 20 N Group
Essay 1,500 words 30 N Individual
Final Exam 2 hours 50 Y Individual

Prescribed Texts

  • Shaw, A, McPhail, R, and Ressia, S 2018, Employment Relations, Second Edition, South Melbourne: Cengage.
  • Bray, M, Waring, P, Cooper, R and MacNeil, J 2018, Employment relations theory and practice, Fourth Edition, Sydney: McGraw-Hill

Teaching Periods