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

    Managing and Rewarding Employee Performance
  • Unit Code

    MAN6704
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    4
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    Y
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    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.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 units from MAN5730

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Collaborate effectively in diverse team settings to produce measurable outcomes.
  2. Analyse the strategic link between performance management and reward processes and organisational outcomes.
  3. Critique the different issues related to managing employee performance.
  4. Assess shortcomings that can occur during the performance review (appraisal) process.
  5. Analyse and create a performance management and reward system for an organisation based on theoretical approaches covered in the unit.
  6. Communicate knowledge and concepts about managing and rewarding employee performance in a clear and persuasive manner.

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.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECUs LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 3 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECUs LMS as well as additional ECU l

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.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Group PresentationGroup Presentation and Individual Reflection30%
ReportIndividual Report50%
ExerciseIndividual Role Play (performance appraisal)20%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
Group PresentationGroup Presentation and Individual Reflection30%
ReportIndividual report50%
ExerciseIndividual Role Play (performance appraisal)20%

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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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

    Managing and Rewarding Employee Performance
  • Unit Code

    MAN6704
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    4
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    Y
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    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.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 units from MAN5730

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Collaborate effectively in diverse team settings to produce measurable outcomes.
  2. Analyse the strategic link between performance management and reward processes and organisational outcomes.
  3. Critique the different issues related to managing employee performance.
  4. Assess shortcomings that can occur during the performance review (appraisal) process.
  5. Analyse and create a performance management and reward system for an organisation based on theoretical approaches covered in the unit.
  6. Communicate knowledge and concepts about managing and rewarding employee performance in a clear and persuasive manner.

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.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECUs LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 3 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECUs LMS as well as additional ECU l

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.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Group PresentationGroup Presentation and Individual Reflection30%
ReportIndividual Report50%
ExerciseIndividual Role Play (performance appraisal)20%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
Group PresentationGroup Presentation and Individual Reflection30%
ReportIndividual report50%
ExerciseIndividual Role Play (performance appraisal)20%

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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