School Of ManagementIndustrial Relations StrategyWestern Sydney University Unit Code: 200615.1
Discipline: HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
Student Contribution Band: 3
Level: 3
Credit Points: 10
Equivalent Units
61433 - Industrial Relations Strategy
Prerequisite
200300 Managing People at Work AND 61432 Enterprise Industrial Relations
About this Unit
This unit covers change in industrial relations -- theoretical models, Dunlop, Marx, role of values (fairness and equity); links with strategy; contemporary pressures for change in Australian industrial relations -- social, economic, political; role of strategy in industrial relations -- strategy and the concept of strategic choice; employer strategies -- standard modern, sophisticated modern, sophisticated paternalist, alternative approaches, practical applications; trade union strategies -- national, workplace, political; major preferred strategies, alternatives, practical applications; government strategies and public policy -- liberalism, pluralism, Marxist interpretations, corporatism and its variations, practical applications; the context of strategy development and change -- award restructuring, flexible work practices and enterprise bargaining; industrial democracy and consultation; technological change and redundancy; white collar and professional unionism; strategic unionism; evaluating strategic responses to contemporary change; developing advanced.
Courses| 2739.2 | Bachelor of Business and Commerce | CONTINUING |
Specialisations
| KT2010.1 | Human Resource Management and Industrial Relations | CONTINUING |
| M2002.1 | Employment Relations | CONTINUING |