Subject Description

This subject will build your analytical and research abilities. You will develop capacity to identify, diagnose and engage with industrial relations challenges from different stakeholder perspectives. You will work with real-world industrial relations, look at individual employees’ workplace and labour market experiences. You will also work with the goals and activities of managers; and the role and practices of tribunals, enforcement agencies, employer associations and trade unions.

You will work collaboratively on problems using online research to investigate contemporary practice, such as the drivers behind enterprise agreements and the implications of institutional arrangements and trade unions for productivity, equity and human resource utilisation.