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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.

Please note that given the circumstances of COVID-19, there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for Semester 1 2020 Units. Students will be notified of all approved modifications by Unit Coordinators via email and Unit Blackboard sites. Where changes have been made, these are designed to ensure that you still meet the unit learning outcomes in the context of our adjusted teaching and learning arrangements.

  • Unit Title

    Current Issues in Human Resource Management

  • Unit Code

    MAN6714

  • Year

    2020

  • Enrolment Period

    1

  • Version

    2

  • Credit Points

    20

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online

  • Unit Coordinator

    A/Prof Janice Lesley REDMOND

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.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass MAN5730

Students must have completed a minimum of 180 credit points

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 in the contemporary workplace.
  2. Research in HRM
  3. Research in HRM 2.
  4. Older Workers.
  5. Emotion at work.
  6. The dark side of work and workplace bullying.
  7. Job design and employee engagement.
  8. Health and well-being.
  9. Monitoring, risk and surveillance.
  10. Greening of the workplace.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

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

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 Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentWritten Research Proposal and Presentation50%
ProjectResearch Project Written Report50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentWritten Research Proposal and Presentation50%
ProjectResearch Project Written Report 50%

Core Reading(s)

  • n.d. (2019). Business research methods (Fifth edition.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1079794647
  • Holland, P., Sheehan, C., Donohue, R., Pyman, A., & Allen, B. (2012). Contemporary Issues and Challenges in HRM (3rd ed.). Prahran, Vic: Tilde University Press. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/761058907?databaseList=638

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.

Please note that given the circumstances of COVID-19, there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for this unit. All assessment changes will be published by 27 July 2020. All students are reminded to check handbook at the beginning of semester to ensure they have the correct outline.

  • Unit Title

    Current Issues in Human Resource Management

  • Unit Code

    MAN6714

  • Year

    2020

  • Enrolment Period

    2

  • Version

    3

  • Credit Points

    20

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online

  • Unit Coordinator

    A/Prof Janice Lesley REDMOND

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.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass MAN5730

Students must have completed a minimum of 180 credit points

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. Communicate 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 in the contemporary workplace and planning a research project
  2. Research in HRM: Quantitative, Theory and Research Design
  3. Research in HRM: Qualitative, Conceptual and Theoretical Frameworks
  4. Older Workers and the Inter-generational Workforce.
  5. Monitoring Risk and Surveillance
  6. Job Design and Employee Engagement
  7. Health and Well-being
  8. Greening the Workplace
  9. Emotion at Work
  10. The Dark Side of Work and Workplace Bullying
  11. International HRM

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

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 through ECU Blackboard 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 Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentWritten Research Proposal and Presentation50%
ProjectResearch Project Written Report50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentWritten Research Proposal and Presentation50%
ProjectResearch Project Written Report 50%

Core Reading(s)

  • n.d. (2019). Business research methods (Fifth edition.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1079794647
  • n.d. (2019). Business research methods (Fifth edition.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1079794647
  • Holland, P., Sheehan, C., Donohue, R., Pyman, A., & Allen, B. (2012). Contemporary Issues and Challenges in HRM (3rd ed.). Prahran, Vic: Tilde University Press. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/761058907?databaseList=638
  • Holland, P., Sheehan, C., Donohue, R., Pyman, A., & Allen, B. (2012). Contemporary Issues and Challenges in HRM (3rd ed.). Prahran, Vic: Tilde University Press. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/761058907?databaseList=638

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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