Credit Points 10

Legacy Code 200719

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Description Industrial Relations and Workplace Change is designed to equip current and future employment relations professionals and practitioners with the knowledge necessary to analyse and implement the processes for workplace change and workplace-level bargaining. The understanding of workplace change covered in this unit includes an emphasis on rights, obligations and "voice". The unit focuses on workplace change problem solving for employee engagement and dispute resolution in both local and global workplace change contexts.

School Business

Discipline Human Resource Management

Student Contribution Band HECS Band 4 10cp

Level Postgraduate Coursework Level 7 subject

Equivalent Subjects LGYA 8579 - The Industrial Relations Process

Restrictions

Students must be enrolled in a postgraduate program.

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this subject, students should be able to:

1. Describe the purposes and roles of workplace change both in Australia and other countries;
2. Evaluate the importance of consultative processes and the effectiveness of particular mechanisms in the workplace change context;
3. Contrast traditional approaches to the industrial relations of workplace change with key elements of an employee engagement focus to be able to analyse the implications of workplace change proposals;
4. Advocate an approach to workplace change problems in complex and changing circumstances to make strategic contributions;
5. Identify global and international issues that affect the industrial relations of the workplace change processes.

Subject Content

- workplace change and The external environment: regulation and policy influences
- workplace change and The Internal environment: management styles and prerogatives
- workplace change and Collective representation: Productivity and flexibility
- workplace change through Bargaining and Negotiation
- workplace disputes: causes, avoidance and Resolution
- employee voice: employee engagement and performance
- Product markets and international best practice
- industrial relations, HRM and Measuring for evaluation