MGMT303-15S2 (C) Semester Two 2015

Leading and managing people: essential employment frameworks

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 13 July 2015
End Date: Sunday, 15 November 2015
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 26 July 2015
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 11 October 2015

Description

This course addresses the essential frameworks needed for managing people. It examines the psychological and legal influences that shape employing and leading staff. It covers the specific obligations and responsibilities affecting processes such as recruiting, performance management, dispute resolution, termination and organisational change - as well as exploring the dynamics for managing relationships between managers and employees.

Relationship to other courses
This course complements other 300-level HRM / Organisational Behaviour courses.
The course is valuable for anyone intending to manage a business, work in HRM or other areas involving staff.  It is designed to contribute to the Legal Compliance & Employment Relations competency requirements the Human Resources Institute of NZ (HRINZ).

Workload
Lecture/Tutorials 20 hours
Term tests 2 hours (2 x 1 hours)
Test Preparation 40 hours
Assignment 48 hours
Lecture Preparation 40 hours
Total 150 hours

Learning Outcomes

  • This course aims to equip students with the ability to analyse and manage current employment issues. Upon completion of the course, students should be able to:
  • explain essential frameworks for managing people
  • explain specific obligations and responsibilities affecting processes such as recruitment, performance management, and dispute resolution
  • explain employment relations theory and contemporary ER systems
  • analyse the interactions between the main parties in employment relationships and propose methods to resolve employment relations issues
  • explain and apply employment-related legislation, with an awareness of employment institutions and processes

    Bachelor of Commerce (BCom) Learning Goals
    The broad goals for the BCom and the ways in which this course addresses these:
    Goal 1: Graduates can demonstrate advanced knowledge of their selected subject
    major, informed by the broader context of Commerce.
  • In the tests and the assignment students demonstrate their applied, advanced knowledge of management and HRM.
    Goal 2: Graduates are able to use analytical thinking and problem-solving skills to
    address specific problems.
  • The assignment requires students to address specific case-based situation/s in which they analyse core issues and the ways that these shape and influence the case.
    Goal 3: Graduates can understand issues from a range of ethical, global and
    multicultural perspectives.
  • The course content includes ethical and global / cultural issues and these are assessed in the tests.
    Goal 4: Graduates are able to communicate effectively both orally and in written
    form.
  • The assignment requires the use of written skills in addressing a case, presenting a structured analysis which identifies a range of central issues, creating an overall report on the case.

Prerequisites

(1) Any 45 points at 200-level or above in MGMT; or (2) LAWS101 and LAWS110

Restrictions

MGMT306

Course Coordinator

Madeleine Savage

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Test 1 17 Aug 2015 25% Test 1
Test 2 28 Sep 2015 25% Test 2
Assignment 23 Oct 2015 50% Assignment


Grading
The marks for assessment can be scaled before a final grade is determined.  You should not regard a raw score of 50% as a pass mark.

Textbooks / Resources

Course readings and lecture resources, including copies of PowerPoint slides will be available on Learn.

Notes

Class Representative
A class representative will be asked to volunteer in the first few weeks of class. Any problems with the course can be raised with the class rep. The class representative will take up any issues raised by class members with the course coordinator or lecturer concerned as they occur.

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 $737.00

International fee $3,125.00

* 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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