1997 QUT Handbook

organisational objectives.
Courses: ME35
Credit Points: 8 Contact Hours: 2 per week
Incompatible with: HRB148
■ MGB100 METHODS & ANALYSIS
Designed to provide students with a conceptual map about
conducting research. Students proceed through the research
process moving from establishing a research question, determining
dependent and independent variables, deciding on
analytic technique, gathering data, data analysis, drawing conclusions
and reporting the research outcomes. Emphasis is
placed on qualitative methodologies, including
ethnomethodology and archival research.
Courses: BS50, BS56 Prerequisites: BSB102 or BSB115
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
Incompatible with: EPB109, EPB163, EPB110
■ MGB200 BUSINESS STRATEGY
Does not presume previous major core studies in management.
Provides students with an understanding of the context
of strategy within business ventures and develops skills necessary
in planning. Some critical analysis is included, but
emphasis is on the process of formulating and implementing
business strategy and policy at developed levels in large organisations
and in small businesses.
Courses: BS50, BS56 Prerequisites: BSB102 or BSB115
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
Incompatible with: MIB314
■ MGB201 EMPLOYMENT REGULATION &
ADMINISTRATION
The formal regulatory nature of the employment relationship,
and the informal rules and systems examined in the economic,
political and social framework; practical and operational knowledge
in relation to the contract of employment; awards, agreements,
superannuation, termination and workers’ compensation.
Courses: BS50, BS56
Prerequisites: HRB131 or HRN104 or MGB207 and
MGB211
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
Incompatible with: HRB103
■ MGB202 EQUITY AT WORK
The historical, legal and social perspectives on current issues
surrounding equal employment opportunity and anti-discrimination
initiatives; workplace implications of current laws and,
in particular, likely and possible impacts in making personnel-related
decisions; concepts and application of the principle
of merit, day to day impacts of equity legislation; practical
models for EEO management planning.
Courses: BS50, BS56
Prerequisites: 144 credit points including MGB207 and
MGB211
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
Incompatible with: HRB133
■ MGB203 GOVERNMENT-MANAGEMENT
INTERFACE
Provides an essential understanding of the complex and dynamic
relationships between business and Australian governments.
Students will extend their basic knowledge of the role
of governments to develop a more specific conceptual and
empirical basis to understand how interactions between Australian
government and business are managed. The focus is
upon the political context of business activity, government
policies towards business, their processes of development and
operational impacts, and the constraints and capacities of various
business sectors to influence the political system.
Courses: BS50, BS56
Prerequisites: EPB124 or BSB114 and MGB207 and
MGB211
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
Incompatible with: EPB125, EPN101
■ MGB204 INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
The structures, functions and roles of the main industrial rela-
tions institutions: courts, tribunals, unions and employer associations.
Regulation of industrial relations by the state and
management; various approaches to industrial relations theory
and the causation, manifestation and resolution of industrial
conflict.
Courses: BS50, BS56
Prerequisites: HRB131 or MGB207 and MGB211
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
Incompatible with: HRB114
■ MGB205 MACHINERY OF GOVERNMENT
Provides a detailed understanding of Australian government.
Examines and compares mechanisms, processes and issues in
the three levels of Australian government (national, state and
local). Includes areas such as constitutional arrangements,
intergovernmental agencies and relationships, government
business enterprises, the public service, fiscal and legal administrative
arrangements. Provides both a detailed knowledge
of how government works in Australia, and an understanding
of the dynamics of government processes.
Courses: BS50, BS56 Prerequisites: EPB124 or BSB114
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
Incompatible with: EPB135, EPB154, EPB167
■ MGB206 MANAGEMENT & ORGANISATION
THEORY
Examines the historical and theoretical roots of management
and organisation concepts and practices, and the way management
and organisation have been constructed as fields of
inquiry by both management practitioners and academics.
Organisational theories explained in this unit include: Weber’s
bureaucracy, stages of corporate development; transaction cost
analysis; institutional and neo-institutional theory; population
ecology; and various critical theories of organisation. Students
have the opportunity to find out the strengths and limitations
of management and organisational theories using a variety of
critical approaches.
Courses: BS50, BS56
Prerequisites: BSB102 or MGB207 and MGB211
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
Incompatible with: HRB127
■ MGB207 MANAGING HUMAN RESOURCES
Key functions and processes in the management of human
resources from the perspectives of the various stakeholders in
the employment relationship, a strategic approach in a total
environment context, human resources management and industrial
relations in theoretical and applied senses.
Courses: BS50, BS56 Prerequisites: BSB115
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
Incompatible with: HRB131
■ MGB208 MANAGEMENT PROCESSES
This unit builds on theories of management encountered in
introductory units. It has a focus on developing skills in the
analysis of concepts and on practical application of managerial
principles. It emphasises decision making in the context
of strategic planning; development and adaptation of structure;
control systems; process analysis. It analyss organisations
within a systems paradigm considered in an environment
of change.
Courses: BS50, IF52, IS43 Prerequisites: BSB102
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
Incompatible with: HRB126
■ MGB209 OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH & SAFETY
MANAGEMENT
Health and safety management at work; hazard identification,
risk management and evaluation, control strategies and implementation
programs; legal frameworks, government policy
and management strategies; safety audits and the management
of health and safety functions.
Courses: BS50, BS56
Prerequisites: HRB131 or HRN104 or MGB207 and
MGB211
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
Incompatible with: HRB128
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