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School: Business and Law

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  • Unit Title

    Managing and Rewarding Performance

  • Unit Code

    HRM6005

  • Year

    2021

  • Enrolment Period

    2

  • Version

    1

  • Credit Points

    20

  • Full Year Unit

     Y

  • Mode of Delivery

    Online

  • Unit Coordinator

    A/Prof Janice Lesley REDMOND

Description

Motivating and rewarding employees provides benefits not only for the employee but also the organisation. These are important aspects of performance management, a process that is required to obtain the best from employees, provide a stimulating and interesting work environment and achieve organisational goals. In this unit, students explore the processes involved in managing employee performance within an organisation from both an individual and team perspective.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

This unit will be offered in an accelerated mode over seven weeks.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must be enrolled in T36 and T39 and have completed a minimum of 40 credit points to enrol into this unit.

Equivalent Rule

Unit equivalent to MAN6704.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse the strategic link between performance management and reward processes and organisational outcomes.
  2. Critique the different issues related to managing employee performance.
  3. Analyse a performance management and reward system for an organisation.
  4. Communicate knowledge of performance management and reward processes in the workplace.
  5. Collaborate effectively in team settings to develop practical, theory-driven, and ethically responsible solutions to managing employee performance.

Unit Content

  1. Introduction to employee performance management planning.
  2. Rewarding performance: Financial and non-financial.
  3. Work-Life balance and performance.
  4. Motivation and employee performance.
  5. Individual and team performance.
  6. Skills for managing performance.
  7. Impact of diversity on performance.
  8. Job design and performance.
  9. Performance appraisals for performance management.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
ReportTeam Report30%
ExerciseIndividual Role Play20%
PortfolioIndividual Written Portfolio50%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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