School: Business and Law

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  • Unit Title

    Managing Employment Relations
  • Unit Code

    MAN6708
  • Year

    2025
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    3
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Trudy BATES

Description

Major shifts in the workplace mean that the employment relationship is constantly evolving, making the day-to-day management of relations at work an integral part of every professional’s role. This unit develops a contemporary understanding of the employee-employer relationship as well as the wider economic, social, and political factors influencing employment relations in Australia. There is an emphasis on current and emerging employment relations issues, institutions, system of laws, processes, rights, and actors in the regulation and management of work and employment in diverse organisational contexts. Theories and concepts of employment relations, along with perspectives on work and work organisations are explored through a focus on real-life application. The critical reflection method is used in this unit to foster a deeper understanding of how individual assumptions, values, and unquestioned norms influence both organisational and personal practices in employment relations.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded MAN5710

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Describe institutions, system of laws, processes, rights and actors in the regulation and management of work and employment.
  2. Examine different employment relations perspectives, considering how they influence organisational strategies, policies, and management practices in maintaining safe and harmonious workplaces in Australia.
  3. Apply broad knowledge of Australia’s workplace relations system, statutory regulation, agreed procedures, and policies to provide accurate and practical advice in a range of work situations, considering different perspectives.

Unit Content

  1. Work and the employment relationship
  2. Theories and perspectives in employment relations
  3. Australia's workplace relations system and employment relations processes
  4. Employment relations processes
  5. Laws and rights in the regulation and management of work and employment
  6. Contemporary issues in the regulation and management of work and employment
  7. Organisational strategies, polices, and management practices in employment relations
  8. Managing workplace discipline and employee grievances
  9. Managing workplace conflict
  10. Representation at work
  11. Equality, equity, diversity, and inclusion
  12. Health, well-being, and the employment relationship
  13. New directions in employment relations

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 3 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 213 x 3 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

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.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
PortfolioePortfolio60%
Case StudyCase study40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
PortfolioePortfolio60%
Case StudyCase study40%

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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