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WORK6040: Emerging Challenges in Industrial Relations
2024 unit information
This unit focuses on contemporary and emerging challenges in the world of work and employment relations. It seeks to understand how these issues are understood and experienced by important stakeholders including managers, employees, unions, governments, policy makers and regulators. Key issues of focus include changing workforce demographics, new forms of work, sustainability and work, and flexibility and precarity in work. The unit engages with stakeholders to understand their interests in relation to these key issues changes. Analysis of these issues is informed by scholarly research and industry perspectives. This unit is a core unit in the Master of Human Resources and Industrial Relations.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Work and Organisational Studies
| Code | WORK6040 |
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| Academic unit | Work and Organisational Studies |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Prerequisites:
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WORK5002 |
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Corequisites:
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None |
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None |
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None |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. Identify emerging and future challenges in work and employment relations.
- LO2. Assess the impact of emerging challenges in work and employment relations for key stakeholders (such as organisations, managers, workers, regulator and policy makers and societies at large)
- LO3. Collect and use data and other evidence to generate insights on work and employment relations challenges.
- LO4. Effectively work as a team member to attempt to resolve a unique and unfamiliar work and employment relations challenge in the interests of key stakeholders
- LO5. Critically assess academic research on changes in work and employment relations.
Unit availability
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Semester 1 2024
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Normal evening | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney | |
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Semester 2 2024
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Normal evening | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
Outline unavailable
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