human resource management-employment relations
Students should prepare a research report of 2500 words (10% tolerance) on one of the following questions. Students have the option of selecting their own question but this MUST BE APPROVED IN WRITING (an email) BY THE LECTURER.
Questions
1.The Australian productivity Commission has undertaken an inquiry into Australia’s Industrial Relations Framework. The commission has brought down a report that includes a number of recommendations.
Choosing one to a maximum of three recommendations, write a response to the Productivity Commission on your chosen issue/s. Your submission should be based on academic literature, labour market data and government, industry and union reports. Your response should either support or contradict the Productivity Commission recommendations based on your reseseach.
2.In many countries an aging workforce, changing industrial structures and demands for equity in employment have led to a need to increase the participation of women with family responsibilities in the workforce. Paid parental leave and the provision and cost of childcare emerge as the major issues. Choose a country and write a report to the appropriate Minister or Government official on measures the government could take to improve the participation of women in the workforce. Your report should be based on academic literature, labour market data and government, industry and union reports. You should include recommendations in your report.
3.In the introduction to a special issue of the journal Human Relations on labour relations in China, the authors argue that China has taken an ‘experimental and decentralised’ approach to labour relations. Write a report outlining the main features of China’s employment relations system and, using the academic literature, outline three key issues that are under discussion in the literature. Your report should conclude with some recommendations suggesting the way forward for China’s system.
4.The International Labour Organisation (ILO) lists “the Prohibition and Immediate Action for the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child labour” as one of its fundamental conventions. Using the academic literature and government and NGO reports and papers, write a report aimed at CEO level of multi-national corporations on the complexities surrounding the issues of child labour. Include some recommendations on how CEO’s can help eliminate the worst forms of child labour.