Pre-requisite: 51379
Employment and Industrial Relations is divided into four parts: 1) Foundations, 2) Parties and Institutions, 3) Industrial Relations Processes, and 4) Industrial Relations and Human Resource Management. The first part includes various theoretical approaches to the study of industrial relations, the economic, legal and social dimensions of the employment relationship, and a select historical survey of industrial relations in Australia. The parties and institutions in industrial relations are studied in the second part of the unit. Modules deal with management and industrial relations as well as employers' association, trade unions, the role of the state in industrial relations and Australian industrial relations tribunals. The latest developments in federal industrial relations legislation are dealt with here. Part 3, Industrial Relations Processes, studies conflict and conflict resolution, collective bargaining and the evolutionary changes to industrial relations in Australia during the 1980s and 1990s. The unit concludes with a module which challenges perspectives on the relationship between HRM and industrial relations and concludes that HRM is a managerial strategic option within industrial relations.