Unit Code: HRM603

Unit Name: Comparative Studies in Industrial & Employment Relations

Description: This course is designed to help students broaden their understanding on the dynamics and the governance of the employment relationship and different models (or systems) of ER/IR/HRM that are practiced in developed market economies such as in UK, USA, Japan, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, including the South Pacific Countries. The study will adopt a comparative approach in examining the main features and processes of ER/IR such as ?collective bargaining?, procedures of solving industrial disputes, employee involvement in decision making, labour market, and current issues in ER/IR. This approach will help students to clearly understand the kind of ER/IR models that are being practiced in the South Pacific countries and how they have been inherited from the various colonial rulers. Moreover, the study will help provide students with the analytical ability to compare and contrast the ER/IR models of South Pacific countries against the developed economies and how the contemporary major changes in ER/IR/HRM in the developed countries are influencing the changes that are taking place in the ER/IR/HRM environment in the South Pacific region.

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Prerequisite: HRM501, HRM502

Prerequisite Sentence: or Equivalent

Credit Point: 15

Offered In: Semester 1