BUSM 7025 Diversity, Labour Markets and Workforce Planning
Credit Points 10
Legacy Code 200828
Coordinator Michael Lyons Opens in new window
Description Demographic change, economic cycles and labour force participation patterns influence the manner in which HRM functions are conducted. This unit focuses on the way an organisation's external environment impacts on both strategic and workforce maintenance planning. The unit is designed to enable employment relations professionals and managers to plan for organisational sustainability, managing workforce-related risk, and growth. The emphasis on labour markets, workforce diversity and planning allows for accommodation of demographic changes, human capital shortages and economic cycles when planning for labour supply and labour demand requirements. While the aim is to identify gaps between the present and future human capital needs - and implementing solutions so the organisation can accomplish its mission, goals, and objectives - the difficulty of this systematic and proactive process increases with the complexity of an organisation and the longer the time horizon used in the planning.
School Business
Discipline Human Resource Management
Student Contribution Band HECS Band 4 10cp
Level Postgraduate Coursework Level 7 subject
Equivalent Subjects LGYA 8596 - Work and Society LGYA 4899 - Work Society and Labour Markets LGYA 4901 - Workforce Planning
Restrictions
Students must be enrolled in a postgraduate program or program 8083 Bachelor of Research.
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 |
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Professional Task | 100 words | 10 | N | Individual |
Report | 2,000 words | 40 | N | Individual |
Final Exam | Exam paper (questions) to be released on vUWS; students have 24 hours to submit their answers; word limit of 2,000 words for the answers apply. | 50 | N | Individual |
Prescribed Texts
- There is no prescribed textbook for this subject. Learning materials and readings for each topic will be available online via vUWS (the subject�fs e-learning website).
Teaching Periods