Program Content
Workplace industrial relations in context
The Employment Relations Professional Development Program will provide students with a broad understanding of the Australian industrial relations system while also outlining the reciprocal rights and responsibilities of employee and employer.
Some of what you will learn:
- Overview of how the Australian industrial relations system fits together, including power relationships.
- The parties and processes operating in industrial relations.
- The industrial relations legal framework currently operating.
- The changing nature of the workplace in general and for police in particular.
The role of stakeholders in industrial relations
There are a number of important players in the industrial relations landscape. The WERRC program will help students gain an understanding of the role, objectives and strategies of the key industrial relations stakeholders, including unions.
- The purposes and objectives of unions, employers and employer groups.
- The challenges facing unions.
- Different strategies that unions use.
- The different roles of union officials.
- The issue of union activism and building delegate networks.
Effective communication, advocacy, negotiation and dispute resolution skills are essential to good workplace relations. You will learn to develop your skills to make a difference in your workplace.
- Strategies for information sharing.
- Ways of communicating at the workplace.
- The principles of negotiation and alternate dispute resolution (ADR) methods.
- Negotiation skills suitable for your workplace.
- Common types of grievance at the workplace and how to best deal with them.
- How to practically apply grievance procedures.
- Dispute resolution under the current industrial relations system.
All required course materials will be supplied
(please note: some of the course content above will be subject to change.)
THE WERRC APPROACHWERRC use a diverse range of training methods including information sessions, analysis of case studies, negotiation exercises and workplace conflict and dispute resolution simulations. Using this approach, students will be provided with:- A rich learning experience within the classroom augmented by practical learning projects derived from their workplace. - A good understanding of the industrial relations system as it currently operates and an appreciation of how it has evolved over the last two decades. - The opportunity to gain critical workplace and industrial skills in negotiating conflict management. |
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