200614: Analytical And Research Abilities - Engineering Assignment

Internal Code: MAS3158

Engineering Assignment:

Enterprise Industrial Relations builds participants’ analytical and research abilities, developing the capacity to identify, diagnose and engage with industrial relations challenges from different stakeholder perspectives. Participants are challenged to make connections between the classroom to the real world of contemporary industrial relations, looking at individual employees’ workplace and labour market experiences; the goals and activities of managers; and the role and practices of tribunals, enforcement agencies, employer associations and trade unions. This is done through activities that require working collaboratively on problems using online research to investigate the contemporary practice, such as the drivers behind enterprise agreements and the implications of institutional arrangements and trade unions for productivity, inequality, and human resource utilisation. The unit is designed to build on foundation employment relations knowledge and analytical abilities developed in 200300 Managing People at Work. In turn, successful completion of 200614 EIR will ensure students make the most of the potential of 200613 Negotiation, Bargaining and Advocacy. The unit also develops students’ mathematical reasoning, building on 301123 Management Analytics. Questions: 1) Identify and utilise sources of qualitative and quantitative information and methods of research commonly used in professional industrial relations practice. 2) Apply theory to explain the drivers behind industrial relations patterns and outcomes, such as the impact of the nature of work, the legal context, the labour market and the goals of human resource management. 3) Describe Australia’s current industrial relations institutions and processes relative to arrangements in the recent past and alternatives advocated by key stakeholders. 4) Explain the implications of the industrial relations framework and practices for productivity, equity, and the interests of stakeholders. 5) Compare and contrast the goals, roles and processes of member-based industrial relations actors, in historical and contemporary contexts to make recommendations about strategy and growth. 6) Diagnose the opportunities and constraints facing workers and managers when dealing with industrial relations issues in contemporary institutional contexts, such as those arising around enterprise bargaining, dispute resolution, legal compliance and enforcement.