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Unit of Study MNG01413 - Human Resource and Workplace Management (2014)

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Unit description

Highlights the importance of strategic human resource management to tourism and hospitality organisations within Australian and international contexts. Students gain an appreciation of the value of people to organisations while critically engaging with contemporary research literature relating to workplace management issues. Uses a student-focused strategy developing case-study analysis and critical thinking.

Unit content

  • An introduction to strategic HRM
  • Engaging and motivating employees
  • Managing knowledge in organisations
  • Diversity management and quality of work-life
  • Employment relations
  • Dispute resolution and negotiation
  • HR planning, job analysis, recruitment and selection
  • Training and development
  • Performance and reward management
  • International HRM

Availabilities

Location Domestic International
Coffs Harbour Session 2 Session 2
Gold Coast Session 2 Session 2
Lismore Session 2 Session 2
Online Session 2 Session 2
Singapore - MDIS Session 2 Session 2
Sydney - The Hotel School Session 2 Session 2

Learning outcomes and graduate attributes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

GA1: Intellectual rigour, GA2: Creativity, GA3: Ethical practice, GA4: Knowledge of a discipline, GA5: Lifelong learning, GA6: Communication and social skills, GA7: Cultural competence
Learning outcome count Learning outcome description GA1 GA2 GA3 GA4 GA5 GA6 GA7
1 critically reflect on the importance of people and human capital to organisations in the tourism, hospitality and events industries
2 critically engage with contemporary research into human resource and workplace management
3 identify and analyse current and future trends for human resource and workplace management in the tourism, hospitality and events industries
4 apply contemporary human resource and workplace theory to case study examples.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

  1. critically reflect on the importance of people and human capital to organisations in the tourism, hospitality and events industries
    • GA1:
    • GA4:
  2. critically engage with contemporary research into human resource and workplace management
    • GA1:
    • GA4:
  3. identify and analyse current and future trends for human resource and workplace management in the tourism, hospitality and events industries
    • GA1:
    • GA2:
  4. apply contemporary human resource and workplace theory to case study examples.
    • GA1:
    • GA2:

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