School: Business and Law

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Current Issues in Human Resource Management
  • Unit Code

    HRM6010
  • Year

    2024
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mr Alex CLIFTON

Description

This unit builds upon student's existing knowledge of established areas of Human Resource Management (HRM) by focusing on contemporary issues in the organisation of work and people management. Students will explore why these issues have come to prominence, critically examine them through an individual research project and develop plausible arguments about the likely future direction of work and people management. The unit encourages students to think critically and analytically about some of the popular solutions currently proposed in academic and practitioner texts to the problems of managing people in the context of work.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

Students undertake this unit in an accelerated delivery mode over 7 weeks.

Prerequisite Rule

T39 students must have completed a minimum of 160 credit points and T82 students must have completed a minimum of 100 credit points to enrol into this unit.

Equivalent Rule

Unit equivalent to MAN6714.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Plan and execute a substantial research-based project relating to current issues in HRM.
  2. Create a research-informed assessment of the likely future direction of HRM.
  3. Demonstrate the application of contemporary HRM knowledge and skills.
  4. Critically evaluate and reflect a range of contemporary ideas, practices and priorities for HRM professionals.
  5. Analyse environmental influences that are shaping the contemporary HRM agenda.

Unit Content

  1. HRM current issues
  2. Initiating a research project
  3. Research philosophies and paradigms
  4. Fundamentals of quantitative and qualitative research
  5. Developing a research proposal
  6. The nature of quantitative and qualitative data

Learning Experience

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

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
PresentationScoping Pitch Presentation20%
Literature ReviewCritical Literature Review30%
ReportResearch Report50%

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.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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School: Business and Law

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Current Issues in Human Resource Management
  • Unit Code

    HRM6010
  • Year

    2024
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mr Alex CLIFTON

Description

This unit builds upon student's existing knowledge of established areas of Human Resource Management (HRM) by focusing on contemporary issues in the organisation of work and people management. Students will explore why these issues have come to prominence, critically examine them through an individual research project and develop plausible arguments about the likely future direction of work and people management. The unit encourages students to think critically and analytically about some of the popular solutions currently proposed in academic and practitioner texts to the problems of managing people in the context of work.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

Students undertake this unit in an accelerated delivery mode over 7 weeks.

Prerequisite Rule

T39 students must have completed a minimum of 160 credit points and T82 students must have completed a minimum of 100 credit points to enrol into this unit.

Equivalent Rule

Unit equivalent to MAN6714.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Plan and execute a substantial research-based project relating to current issues in HRM.
  2. Create a research-informed assessment of the likely future direction of HRM.
  3. Demonstrate the application of contemporary HRM knowledge and skills.
  4. Critically evaluate and reflect a range of contemporary ideas, practices and priorities for HRM professionals.
  5. Analyse environmental influences that are shaping the contemporary HRM agenda.

Unit Content

  1. HRM current issues
  2. Initiating a research project
  3. Research philosophies and paradigms
  4. Fundamentals of quantitative and qualitative research
  5. Developing a research proposal
  6. The nature of quantitative and qualitative data

Learning Experience

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

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
PresentationScoping Pitch Presentation20%
Literature ReviewCritical Literature Review30%
ReportResearch Report50%

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.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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