MGMT303-25S2 (C) Semester Two 2025

Leading and Managing People: Essential Employment Frameworks

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 14 July 2025
End Date: Sunday, 9 November 2025
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 27 July 2025
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 28 September 2025

Description

This course addresses the essential frameworks for leading and managing people, exploring the dynamics associated with managing relationships between managers and employees. It covers principles of leadership and psychological perspectives, along with the legal influences that bring specific obligations and responsibilities for employment processes.

This course addresses the essential frameworks needed for managing people in New Zealand workplaces. It examines the psychological and legal influences that shape how staff are employed and led.

It covers the specific obligations and responsibilities involved in key employment processes such as recruitment, performance management, dispute resolution, termination, organisational change, and collective representation. The course also explores the dynamics of managing relationships between managers and employees, alongside the legal requirements that support these processes.

Students will gain practical insight into leading and managing people within New Zealand’s employment relations environment.

Learning Outcomes

The objectives of the course are:
1. Analyse and apply foundational principles of workplace relations theory to real-world organisational contexts
2. Evaluate and apply key legal principles relevant to employment relationships within workplace contexts.
3. Critically assess and apply the governing processes relevant to organisational justice, dispute resolution and negotiation in workplace contexts
4. Analyse and apply relational processes between workers and employers.

Prerequisites

Timetable 2025

Students must attend one activity from each section.

Lecture A
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Monday 09:00 - 11:00 Rehua 102
14 Jul - 24 Aug
8 Sep - 19 Oct

Examinations, Quizzes and Formal Tests

Test A
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Thursday 19:00 - 20:00 F3 Lecture Theatre
18 Aug - 24 Aug
02 Thursday 19:00 - 20:00 F1 Lectorial
18 Aug - 24 Aug
03 Thursday 19:00 - 20:00 Ernest Rutherford 141
18 Aug - 24 Aug
04 Thursday 19:00 - 20:00 Meremere 105 Lecture Theatre
18 Aug - 24 Aug

Timetable Note

Lectures for MGMT303 are recorded using the ECHO360 lecture recording system.

Course Coordinator

Nadine Marshall

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Case Studies 30% Cases due on specified weeks through the course
Term Test 25% In Week 6
Final Exam 45%


The ‘45% rule’ applies to this course. That is, student needs to reach 45% weighted average across all invigilated assessments. Please refer here for further information.

Assessment in Te Reo Māori
In recognising that Te Reo Māori is an official language of New Zealand, the University provides for students who may wish to use Te Reo Māori in their assessment. If you intend to submit your work in Te Reo Māori you are required to do the following:

Read the Assessment in Te Reo Māori Policy and ensure that you meet the conditions set out in the policy. This includes, but is not limited to, informing the Course Coordinator 1) no later than 10 working days after the commencement of the course that you wish to use Te Reo Māori and 2) at least 15 working days before each assessment due date that you wish to use Te Reo Māori.

The use of AI may or may not be permitted in courses. Within a course, permission may vary by assignment. It is the responsibility of the student to inform themselves about assessment conditions and submit work that is their own and that properly acknowledges the work of other people and tools, including generative artificial intelligence tools.

Textbooks / Resources

Required Texts

Simon Schofield; New Zealand Employment Law Guide ; CCH New Zealand Ltd, 2025.

Additional reading materials will be posted on LEARN.

Course links

LEARN

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $946.00

International fee $4,363.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

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All MGMT303 Occurrences

  • MGMT303-25S2 (C) Semester Two 2025
  • MGMT303-25A (C) Approved Start 2025 - Not Offered