1997 QUT Handbook

tion (industrial relations, workers’ compensation, anti-discrimination,
and workplace health and safety).
Courses: BS50, BS56
Prerequisites: HRB131 or HRN105 or MGB201 and
MGB204
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
Incompatible with: HRB102
■ MGB302 COOPERATIVE ORGANISATION
The development of cooperative relations across social, organisational,
cultural and geographical boundaries from a theoretical
and practical point of view. Types of cooperative arrangement
will be examined including networks, strategic alliances,
social partnerships, cooperatives, and labour-management
cooperation. Structural and behavioural issues will be
addressed.
Courses: BS50, BS56 Prerequisites: MGB212
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
Incompatible with: COB108
■ MGB303 ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Examines the processes of small business start up in terms of
developing skills and knowledge entrepreneurship and new
venture creation. Examines the entrepreneur in terms of entrepreneurial
personality theories, entrepreneurial management
and intrapreneurship. New venture creation deals with business
planning and resourcing a business start-up. New venture
creation develops skills and knowledge for students to
analyse and manage the external environment of a small business
start-up. Additionally students develop skills and knowledge
on how to design and manage over time the internal operations
and response to the external environment of a startup
firm.
Courses: BS50, BS56
Prerequisites: BSB102 or HRN104, or MGB207 and BSB110
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
Incompatible with: HRB116
■ MGB304 HUMAN RESOURCE PLANNING &
INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Detailed examination of organisational strategy, business plans
and link with human resource planning; quantitative and qualitative
approaches to prediction. Careers, career management,
succession planning, downsizing. Extensive reference to the
role, design and use of computerised human resource information
systems as the database facilitating human resource
planning and managerial decision making.
Courses: BS50, BS56 Prerequisites: MGB328
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
■ MGB305 HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
STRATEGY & POLICY
This is the capstone of the HRM extended major. The primary
objective is to integrate HR concepts and issues into the
wider business and environmental context; a range of historical
features, professional and ethical matters are considered;
policy development and evaluation is examined; an experiential
approach based in cases and/or simulations is adopted.
Courses: BS50, BS56
Prerequisites: HRB105 or HRN104 or completion of 96 credit
points from HRM units
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
Incompatible with: HRB136
■ MGB306 INDEPENDENT STUDY
Enables students to demonstrate an ability to direct their own
learning, a key competence for professionals who must keep
themselves up to date in their area of expertise; students either
individually or in small groups, undertake one or several
learning activities with the approval of a supervisor; appropriate
activities include literature review, research (mini-thesis),
project, practicum (work placement), or alternative
deemed acceptable by the supervisor.
Courses: BS50, BS56 Prerequisites: 192 credit points
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
Incompatible with: HRB151
■ MGB307 INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RESOURCE
MANAGEMENT
Overviews international business management, and develops
a strategic appreciation of the role of human resources management
in an international context. Specific human resource
processes are detailed, including: expatriate selection, crosscultural
training, management, and remuneration; global management;
and the competencies required to manage a culturally
diverse workforce, the relationship between international
human resource management and international industrial relations,
and contemporary research in international human
resource management.
Courses: BS50, BS56
Prerequisites: HRB131 or HRN104 or MGB207 and
MGB211
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
Incompatible with: HRB117
■ MGB308 INTERNATIONAL INDUSTRIAL
RELATIONS
Industrial relations processes which operate under a range of
social, economic, cultural and political arrangements; European
and Pacific-rim systems.
Courses: BS50, BS56
Prerequisites: HRB131 or HRN105 or MGB219
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
Incompatible with: HRB150
■ MGB309 STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT
Presumes previous studies in management areas. Provides students
with an ability to understand and participate in the formulation
and implementation of management policy and strategy.
Emphasises a critical analysis of the literature in the field
of strategic management and the effect this has had on the
processes adopted by different organisations. As a capstone
unit, it gives students the opportunity to analyse synergies
between the various strands of their major and to develop skills
in influencing the strategic direction of organisations.
Courses: BS50, BS56
Prerequisites: BSB102 and HRB127 (recommended), or
MGB303
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
Incompatible with: HRB125
■ MGB311 MANAGING CHANGE
Builds on introductory and intermediate units in management
and is designed to equip managers with an understanding of the
management of change in a variety of organisational and contextual
settings. Explores the certainty of uncertainty and its implications
for management. Emphasis is placed on developing
change management skills, through a program of skills development
embedded in a sound understanding of relevant theory.
Courses: BS50, BS56 Corequisites: MGB206
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
Incompatible with: COB102
■ MGB312 NEGOTIATION & COLLECTIVE
BARGAINING
Theory of negotiation, the basic concepts of integrative and
distributive bargaining, process and phases of negotiation in
practice, negotiating enterprise bargaining agreements.
Courses: BS50, BS56
Prerequisites: HRB131 or HRN105 or MGB201 and
MGB204
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
Incompatible with: HRB102
■ MGB313 ORGANISATIONAL CHANGE &
DEVELOPMENT
A range of interventions designed to improve an organisation’s
capacity to actively adapt to its environment. Interventions
oriented to various levels of analysis will be covered,
e.g. individual, interpersonal, group, intergroup, organisational,
and the organisation in its broader context.
Courses: BS50, BS56 Prerequisites: MGB314
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 3 per week
Incompatible with: COB102
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