Industrial Relations
Students will gain knowledge of current Industrial Relations legislation, processes and practices, and understand the relationship of the parties involved.
Human Resources
Students will be provided with the knowledge to understand the roles, functions and application of human resource management within contemporary New Zealand organisations.
Organisational Behaviour
Students will learn to evaluate, analyse and assess the impact that individuals, groups and structures have on the behaviour of people within organisations. Students will develop an analytical awareness of their personal and interpersonal behaviour and the effect of that behaviour as members of formal and informal working groups. Students will combine an understanding of introductory social and psychological phenomena at individual, group and inter-group levels.
Advanced Human Resource Management
Students will gain an awareness of how human resource strategy and practice can support and be integrated with business strategy.
Contemporary Issues in Human Resource Management
Students will be able to critically examine contemporary issues in human resource management locally, nationally and internationally. Once identified the issues will be evaluated for their impact on the human resource professional and the human resource function within organisations. The issues researched and analysed will reflect the dynamic nature of the current HRM environment.
Professional Practice A
To develop research capabilities related to chosen area of specialisation, and enable students to complete a “hands-on” immersion in industry practice as part of BAM7.020.
Professional Project B
To develop capabilities related to chosen area
of specialisation, in a “hands-on” immersion in industry practice. To enable students to apply their learning, test the relevance of academic theories to the workplace and to reflect critically on this relationship between their academic study and industry practice. To enable students to carry out a significant work assignment for the host organisation on a topic in a field allied to their major and present a project report in conjunction with an academic supervisor. The project forms the final component of the programme and requires students to produce work of the highest quality as evidence of their development.
