21720 Human Resource Management
6cp Postgraduate
This subject presents an introduction to the areas of industrial relations and human resource management. Topics covered include: historical steps in the development of the human resource function and the forces that have shaped its development; major functions of employment relations managers; the relationship between the human resource and industrial relations functions in the modern organisation; the nature of industrial relations and the contribution to understanding made by several conflict theorists; the structure and functioning of formal industrial relations; the form and function of the employer and employee organisations, parties to employment relations; and the nature of efficiency restructuring and enterprise bargaining and their impact upon the management of employment relations.
Note(s)
Prior to Autumn semester 2004, this subject was called Employment Relations.
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2007 amount for undergraduate domestic fee-paying students: $2,280.00
Subject EFTSL: 0.125
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