PERS302 to PHIL105
PERS302 Employment Relations
10 cp
Prerequisites LEGL101 Introduction to Law and PERS200 Human Resource Management
Teaching Organisation 3 hours per week for 12 weeks or equivalent.
This unit is concerned with the nature and significance of issues arising from the relationship between employers, managers and employees. The central purpose of the unit will be to make the student aware of problems which can reduce organisational effectiveness and efficiency but which, if properly handled, can enhance productivity and employer-employee satisfaction. The unit will consider the Constitutional basis for industrial relations legislation in Australia and its historical development, with a focus on current legal and institutional structures. The unit will examine models of employment relations; the implications of current practices of decentralised wage and conditions fixation; the nature and structure of union and employer organisations; and mechanisms designed to manage workplace conflict.
PERS303 Organisational Change
10 cp
Prerequisites 120 cp including PERS200 Human Resource Management
Teaching Organisation 3 hours per week for 12 weeks or equivalent.
The scope of this unit will embrace organisational culture, organisational change and renewal, intervention strategies, empowerment, team development, organisational transformation and the management of the change process. Although, students may have been introduced to some of these areas in various subjects, this unit will extend the range and depth of knowledge in selected topics.
PERS304 Employment Law
10 cp
Prerequisites LEGL101 Introduction to Law, PERS200 Human Resource Management and PERS302 Employment Relations
Teaching Organisation 3 hours per week of for 12 weeks or equivalent.
This unit outlines the body of law that applies to the employment relationship. Understanding the ramifications of law for employment policies and practices is a fundamental knowledge required by HRM Professionals. Using relevant case and statute law, this unit will explore the relationship between theory and practice and determine the implications of law on HRM professionals at each stage in the employment relationship. The legal process that relates to industrial tribunals is considered in greater detail in PERS302 Employment Relations.
PERS305 Analysis of Human Resource Management
10 cp
Prerequisites 120 cp including 40 cp of units from HRM major
Teaching Organisation 3 hours per week for 12 weeks or equivalent.
This unit aims to provide a critical perspective of Human Resource Management. This unit will focus on a range of skills and knowledge with which to understand and deal with HRM-related issues in the workplace. This unit explores differing theoretical/ideological perspectives of HRM. The content presented in this unit builds on previous generalist/functional HRM knowledge and practical skills gained from other HRM units. This unit is the integral unit in the professional sequence of eight units and students will therefore need to gain a pass in at least four other HR units before enrolling in this unit. This subject also aims to encourage and develop an interest in postgraduate studies in HRM/Management for those students so inclined.
PERS308 Occupational Health and Safety
10 cp
Prerequisites PERS200 Human Resource Management
Teaching Organisation 3 hours per week for 12 weeks or equivalent.
The legislative framework provides the basic structure for the treatment of this unit. While students will be introduced to the historical framework of OHS, the unit mainly concentrates on the roles of employers and employees in occupational health and safety. The worker’s compensation system, the requirements for effective rehabilitation programs and the role of workcover/worksafe authorities will be given detailed consideration. Students will also study various topics relating to areas such as: occupational stress, toxic substances, noxious agents and the effect of shiftwork on health. The general responsibilities of management to relate OHS programs to corporate and business plans and the importance of information systems, appropriate intervention strategies and the employment relations implications of the OHS function will also be covered.
Whilst this unit is available for all Business students who satisfy the prerequisite, it is of particular relevance for those students undertaking the Human Resource Management major.
PERS309 Organisational Behaviour
10 cp
Prerequisites MGMT101 Fundamentals of Management, PERS200 Human Resource Management
Teaching Organisation 3 hours per week for 12 weeks or equivalent.
This unit analyses the central elements of organisational behaviour. It looks at the ways in which an understanding of human behaviour in organisations is necessary to, and facilitates the management of people at work. A major theme of the subject is that an understanding of the nature of organisations is essential to understanding the behaviour of people within them. There are three levels of behavioural analysis: the individual, the group and the organisational as a whole. The subject deals with the core concerns of the field of organisational behaviour such as the roles of managers, perception and motivation, group behaviour and dynamics, power and politics, conflict and control, decision-making, organisational culture, leadership and change. The unit also encourages students to think about management and organisations in ways which are multi-disciplinary, problem-solving and critical and in ways which recognise historical contingency and cross-cultural influences.
PERS310 International Human Resource Management
10 cp
Prerequisites PERS200 Human Resource Management
Teaching Organisation 3 hours per week for 12 weeks or equivalent.
This unit covers essential theoretical and practical knowledge applicable to the field of International Human Resource Management (IHRM). It is designed to build upon prior knowledge of the principles of human resource management in a domestic setting. Special attention is given to those skills necessary to function efficiently and effectively in International HRM. This unit provides an overview of the difficulties encountered in managing internationally. It explores the strategies which need to be undertaken by organisations to maximise their cross-cultural performance and achieve best practice in IHRM. This unit also considers the demands of managing cultural diversity in both international and domestic settings. The unit has a strategic and professional practice skills focus.
PERS600 International Human Resource Management
10 cp
Prerequisites Nil
Teaching Organisation 3 hours per week for 12 weeks or equivalent.
This unit integrates theoretical concepts, research and examples of international human resource management in practice. The unit emphasises the strategic role of human resources and their contribution to organisational performance in a global context. The unit is designed to provide international and comparative understanding of industrial relations and HRM in selected countries. This unit draws out differences and similarities involved in practices of these different countries, paying particular attention to social, political and economic factors behind different outcomes. Ethics in International HRM is also a key consideration in this unit.
PERS601 Workplace Relations
10 cp
Prerequisites Nil
Teaching Organisation 3 hours per week for 12 weeks or equivalent.
All organisational operations are constrained by the legal environment within which the organisation operates. Managers and Human Resource Managers must have a fundamental understanding of the way the law impacts upon their functions especially in relation to people in the workplace. This unit is concerned with the nature and significance of issues arising from the relationship between employers, managers and employees. The central purpose of the unit will be to make the student aware of problems which can reduce organisational effectiveness and efficiency but which, if properly handled, can enhance productivity and employer-employee satisfaction. The unit will consider the Constitutional basis for industrial relations legislation in Australia and its historical development, with a focus on current legal and institutional structures.
The unit will examine models of employment relations; the implications of current practices of decentralised wage and conditions fixation; the nature and structure of union and employer organisations; and mechanisms designed to manage workplace conflict. This unit aims to develop and extend students' knowledge and understanding of the broader context of workplace relations, from the perspective of managers and human resource managers thus providing a strategic approach to the employment relationship.
PERS602 Managing Diversity
10 cp
Prerequisites Nil
Teaching Organisation 3 hours per week for 12 weeks or equivalent.
It is often argued that people are the most important resources in organisations and as such, a study of the effective leadership and management of that increasingly diverse resource is important in enhancing organisational effectiveness. This is particularly so in environments where organisations are subject to an increasing set of changes and challenges. Leading and managing in these changing environments requires new mind-sets which address dilemmas such as the reconciliation of the ‘business imperative’ on the one hand and collaborative, empathetic and equity emphases on the other.
This unit draws attention to the organisational and managerial challenges associated with a diverse workforce. It looks at a number of theoretical and practical issues related to leading and managing diverse employees. Organisational settings are places of cultural contact, interaction, and sometimes conflict. The ethnic diversity of Australia and the historical interaction of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal societies have considerable business implications. These human resource management issues are addressed in the context of leading organisations in a changing and challenging environment. The content and theoretical framework for this unit is infused by principles of social justice and equity. The contemporary practices discussed throughout this unit attempt to develop sensitivity to and understanding of cultural and gender-related issues.
This unit aims to enhance student learning, critical enquiry, intellectual debate and a commitment to professionalism. This unit is designed to provide business professionals with an understanding of the complex issues involved in catering for diversity and strategies for professional practice in contexts of diversity.
PHIL100 Introduction to Philosophical Enquiry
10 cp
Prerequisites Nil
Teaching Organisation Lectures, tutorials, seminars.
This unit introduces the student to central topics in philosophy through the close study of one or two influential texts in the discipline. In keeping with the text(s) chosen, the unit will treat such topics as the following: certainty and knowledge, the self; perception and intellectual knowledge; truth and error; identity through time; the nature of physical things; the relationship between body and soul; knowledge of the future; freedom; the grounds of duty; ethics and nature; the nature of meaning and reference; objectivity and subjectivity; happiness and the good life; the grounds of political obligation; arguments for the existence of God; relations between God and the world.
PHIL101 Reason and Argument
10 cp
Prerequisites Nil
Teaching Organisation Lectures, tutorials, seminars.
This unit will introduce the student to the fundamentals of logical thinking and the analysis of reasoning. Both informal and formal methods will be taught. The unit will provide grounding in critical thinking and analysis for both the general student and those interested in a philosophy major.
PHIL102 Theories of Human Nature
10 cp
Prerequisites Nil
Teaching Organisation Lectures, tutorials, seminars.
The unit will introduce students to the work of various philosophers on the subject of human nature and personhood. It will include a consideration of some of the following issues: mind and body, reason and passion, freedom and determinism, individual and community, meaning and value, history and culture, personal identity, and human fulfilment.
PHIL103 Origins of Western Philosophy
10 cp
Prerequisites Nil
Teaching Organisation 3 hours per week for 12 weeks or equivalent.
The aim of this course is to give students an understanding and appreciation of the emergence of rational enquiry into ultimate questions in Ancient Greece. It will deal with some main philosophical questions which occupied philosophers up to and including Aristotle. Some of the questions to be considered will be chosen from the likes of the following: the possibility and value of the rational knowledge of nature and of ultimate reality; the principles of explanation and the nature of ultimate causes; the nature of the human soul and its fate after death; the grounds of ethics and politics; and the conditions of human flourishing; and the relationship between the divine, the gods and human life.
PHIL104 Introduction to Ethics
10 cp
Prerequisites Nil
Teaching Organisation 3 hours per week for 12 weeks or equivalent of lectures, tutorials and seminars.
The unit aims to explore some of the fundamental questions in moral philosophy. Topics discussed may include: the nature of moral responsibility; the possibility of moral knowledge; theories of ethics such as utilitarian, deontological, natural law, Socratic, feminist, and virtue approaches; Eastern moral perspectives such as Buddhism and Hinduism; and practical moral issues such as justice, killing, punishment, sexual behaviour, the treatment of animals, genetic manipulation and research, international and intercultural relations, and the use of the environment.
PHIL105 Values and Beliefs
10 cp
Prerequisites Nil
Teaching Organisation Lectures, tutorials, seminars.
For people of all persuasions, deep-seated values and views of reality have a strong influence on conceptions of life, death, suffering and other important notions that recur regularly in human life. The student will be introduced, from a philosophical perspective, to the variety of religious and other traditions in contemporary society and their impact on the search for meaning. Topics to be studied will be chosen from broad areas such as the following: the nature of religion; reason and faith; human nature and afterlife; ultimate reality, God and the manifest world; the meaning of life, suffering, evil and death; the ethics of life and death; science and religion; impact on practical life. Traditions to be examined will be chosen from such as the following: Aboriginal religion, Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Judaism, Christianity.
Page last updated: 2017-06-29
Short url: https://handbook.acu.edu.au/61575
Page last updated: 2017-06-29
Short url: https://handbook.acu.edu.au/61575