MGMT303-12S2 (C) Semester Two 2012

Employment Relations

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 9 July 2012
End Date: Sunday, 11 November 2012
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 22 July 2012
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 7 October 2012

Description

This course examines the context of labour and employment relations in New Zealand, including contracts of employment and employment legislation; the role of employers, unions and the government; labour relations processes such as bargaining and negotiation; and labour market outcomes.

This course addresses the management of employment relations and legal obligations. It examines employment legislation and contracts, along with managing relationships between employers, employees and representatives.

These areas are part of both general organisation management, and a core element of HRM.

The content covers three main areas;
1. Managing the crucial relations between employers and employees, including  positive relationships, conflict, and worker representation;
2. Handling the legal dimensions of employment, including legislation, contracts,  and processes such as hiring, managing performance, organisational change, termination, dispute resolution, and negotiation;
3. Managing newer ‘non-standard’ work arrangements, including contractors and  temporary agency staff.

Relationship to Other Courses
This course is a required course for majoring in Human Resource Management (HRM) in the BCom programme.

The course is designed to contribute to the Professional Competency requirements of the Human Resources Institute of NZ (HRINZ) - Legal Compliance & Employment Relations section.

It complements other 300-level HR courses such as MGMT301, MGMT308, and MGMT331.

Learning Outcomes

  • This course aims to equip students with the ability to analyse and manage employment issues. Upon completion of the course, students should be able to:

  • analyse the interactions between the main parties in employment relationships
  • apply employment-related legislation to key staffing issues
  • utilise the framework governing processes such as dispute resolution, bargaining and negotiation
  • identify methods to resolve, employment relations issues with an awareness of employment institutions and processes
  • explain and apply employment relations theory and contemporary ER systems

    Professional Outcomes
    The course is valuable for anyone intending to manage a business, work in HRM or other areas involving staff.

Prerequisites

Restrictions

BSAD311, MGMT306, BSAD306

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

Bernard Walker

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
On-line Quizzes 15% On-line Quizzes
Assignment 1 07 Sep 2012 40% Written Assignment
Assignment 2 12 Oct 2012 45% Written Assignment


There are three pieces of assessment for this course:

On-line Quizzes (Weight: 15%)
The purpose of these quizzes is to assess your understanding of issues from set weekly readings. The quizzes will only occur on selected weeks and are taken on-line on Learn.

Assignment 1 (Weight: 40%)
This assignment is done individually and requires you to consider how international research may apply in local situations.

Assignment 2 (Weight: 45%)
This assignment requires you to address a specific case using the course content and  supplied readings.

Grading
The marks for each piece of assessment may be standardized before a final grade is determined.

Textbooks / Resources

Required Texts

Rasmussen, Erling Juul; Employment relations in New Zealand ; 2nd ed; Pearson Education New Zealand, 2009 (This is a new edition of this book).

Course readings and lecture resources, including copies of powerpoint slides will be available on LEARN and will also be available as a printed Course Handbook.

Course links

LEARN

Notes

Departmental Academic Policies
The Department assumes that you have read this document.

You should also read the General Course and Examination Regulations

Dishonest Practice
The University of Canterbury considers cheating and plagiarism to be serious acts of dishonesty.  All assessed work must be your own individual work unless specifically stated otherwise in the assessment guidelines. Material quoted from any other source must be clearly acknowledged. You must not copy the work of another person (student or published work) in any assessment including examinations, tests and assignments. Any person, who is found to have copied someone else's work, or to have allowed their work to be copied, will receive a fail grade for that piece of assessment and may face disciplinary action which may lead to a fine, community service or exclusion from the university.

IMPORTANT: Where there are concerns regarding the authorship of written course work, a student can be required to provide a formal, oral explanation of the content of their work.

Coversheets - Group and Individual

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $655.00

International fee $2,888.00

* 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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