Pre-requisite: 51372
Workplace Industrial Relations will consist of five parts dealing with the dynamics of relations between employers or managers and employees or unions at the workplace. The first part considers different industrial relations models for understanding employment relations at work. In the second part, students consider the behaviour and strategies of management in the workplace and the different strategies managers might adopt for dealing with trade unions. Such questions as the autonomy of the workplace in industrial relations matters will also be considered. Two dimensions of trade unions in the workplace are examined in the third part: union membership and union presence in Australian workplaces. Productivity, efficiency and flexibility are concepts which have been the objectives of reform of Australian workplaces. These are considered in part four of this unit. The final part of the unit deals with the theory and practice of collective bargaining in the enterprise and at the workplace.