Managing Workplace Relations
Duration
- One Semester or equivalent
Contact hours
- 36 hours
On-campus unit delivery combines face-to-face and digital learning.
2023 teaching periods
| Swinburne Online Teaching Period 1 |
Swinburne Online Teaching Period 3 | |
|---|---|---|
Dates: Results: Last self enrolment: Census: Last withdraw without fail: |
Dates: Results: Last self enrolment: Census: Last withdraw without fail: |
Aims and objectives
Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:
1. Identify and analyse the key elements of various pieces of legislation related to work in Australia
2. Explore, understand and apply the major industrial relations theories to assess the nature of the employment relationship with its key stakeholders
3. Conduct a comparative analysis of global labour market trends and labour market flexibility
4. Describe, evaluate, and utilise negotiation models
5. Undertake research individually or in groups, to investigate changes in collective and alternative agreements, at the workplace level.
Unit information in detail
- Teaching methods, assessment and content.
Teaching methods
Face to Face:
For all teaching and learning structures (both face to face and online), students are expected to spend an average of
• Scheduled teaching and learning events and activities (contact hours timetabled in a face-to-face teaching
space) and scheduled online learning events (contact hours scheduled in an online teaching space), and
• Non-scheduled learning events and activities (including directed online learning activities, assessments,
• Read all prescribed materials and/or view videos in preparation for each class
• Attend and engage in all scheduled classes (face to face or online)
• Start assessment tasks well ahead of the due date, and submit assessments promptly
• Read / listen to all feedback carefully, and consider it for future assessment
• Engage with fellow students and teaching staff (don’t hesitate to ask questions)
Assessment
Assignment (Group) 30-40%
Final Examination (Individual) 40 - 60%
Report (Group) 30-40%
Assignment (Individual) 40 - 60%
Content
- Current Australian developments in workplace reform
- Industrial relations changes that have occurred at both the macro level and micro level
- Current legislation related to Australian workplaces in particular the Fair Work Act 2009, Equal Opportunity Act (Vic) 2010, OH&S,
- Privacy and other relevant pieces of legislation
- Problem solving approaches to Enterprise Bargaining: distributive, integrative and intra-organisational bargaining.
- Models of flexibility: functional, numerical, temporal locational, financial and the impact on key stakeholders
- Alternative theoretical approaches to understanding and problem solving in industrial relations
Study resources
- Reading materials.