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Courses Handbook 2012

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2012.
Information for current year courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2011.

5266 (v.9) Contemporary Issues in Human Resources 555

Area: Curtin Graduate School of Business
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 3.0
Tuition Patterns: The tuition pattern provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. Precise information is included in the unit outline.
Lecture: 1 x 3 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s): 5698 (v.5) Organisational Behaviour 550 or any previous version
Syllabus: The global balance of economic life, and with it the dynamics of employment and workplace relations are changing. In this unit we will study the changing nature of industrial relations and human resource management through placing these areas in a wider global theoretical and empirical. We will look at issues of employment practice in small firms, the public sector, indigenous employment, and diversity management, skill shortages and high performance work systems amongst others.
Unit references, texts, outcomes and assessment details The most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes, will be provided in the unit outline.
Field of Education: 080300 Business and Management (Narrow Grouping)
Result Type: Grade/Mark

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