LB5305 - Employment Relations

Credit points:	03
Year:	2014
Student Contribution Band:	Band 3
Administered by:	School of Business (pre 2015)

This subject introduces students to the importance of employee relations and aims at examining how employers and employees' interests get integrated in ways that promote and balance competitiveness, efficiency, equity and fairness. It assists students in understanding the social and institutional processes underlying workplace relations, including elements of the labour legislation, management initiatives and bargaining processes. Students will get knowledge of the nature of work and work restructuring in modern organisations. They will also get insights of the broader industrial relations system and the role played by key players including government agencies, employers' associations and trade unions. In addition students will develop an awareness of contemporary changes in the labour market as well as qualitative changes in labour requirement and how these changes affect management, workplace relations and working families.

Learning Outcomes

• Understand the complex nature of the employment relationship and identify the political, institutional and social processes at play in the realm of workplace and broader industrial relations;
• Acquire supporting knowledge from the field of sociology of work, organisational behaviour, economics and labour law;
• Understand the functioning of the industrial relations system, its main actors and their strategies. Be able to develop an independent and informed view of topical issues surrounding workplace relations as well as acquire knowledge of employment relations in practice including the management of labour, compliance to the legislation, collective bargaining and bargaining structures.

Availabilities
JCU Singapore, Internal, Study Period 52
Census Date 17-Jul-2014
Coordinator:	Dr Stephane Le Queux
Contact hours:	36 hours lectures - As per subject guide
Assessment:	end of semester exam (50%); group presentation (20%); essays (30%).
JCU Singapore, Internal, Study Period 53
Census Date 13-Nov-2014
Coordinator:	Dr Stephane Le Queux
Contact hours:	36 hours lectures - As per subject guide
Assessment:	end of semester exam (50%); group presentation (20%); essays (30%).
Restrictions:	An enrolment quota applies to this offering.

Note: Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.