MGMT612-15S2 (C) Semester Two 2015

Conflict and Collaboration in Work Teams

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 13 July 2015
End Date: Sunday, 15 November 2015
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Friday, 24 July 2015
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 9 October 2015

Description

This course explores employment-related conflict. This comprises (a) an overview of the legal framework and institutional arrangements, and (b) contemporary, social psychological perspectives of conflict, and the application of these in terms of developing practices and systems for managing employment relationships

This course explores employment-related collaboration and conflict. An overview of the legal processes and institutional arrangements is provided as an initial foundation. From there the course focuses on the contemporary, social psychological perspectives, with an emphasis on the skills and systems for establishing productive collaboration and addressing conflicts in employment relationships.

Relationship to other courses
This course is part of the Human Resources stream of the postgraduate programme, directly accompanying MGMT611 and MGMT 615. However other students take the course due to its interest and relevance to a wide range of disciplines; it is an elective within the Master of Engineering.

Workload
Lecture/Workshops 28 hours
Workshop preparation 70 hours
Assignment(1) 12 hours
Assignment(2) 40 hours
Total 150 hours

Learning Outcomes

  • Upon completion of this course students should demonstrate in-depth knowledge, comprehension, analysis, and the ability to apply these. In particular students will;
  • Understand and be able to apply the basic legal framework and procedures for dealing with employment relationship problems in New Zealand
  • Be able to analyse interactions between parties in terms of modern conflict theory
  • Understand the nature and causes of collaboration and conflict
  • Be able to identify the range of strategies available for resolving conflict and promoting collaboration and  teamwork
  • Be able to apply this theory to situations involving employment relationship problems, including identifying organisational systems and designs for managing relationships and resolving employment issues
  • Be able to synthesise academic or professional literature and effectively communicate orally and in written form.

Prerequisites

Subject to approval of the  Head of Department. RP: 300-level courses in HRM and MGMT

Equivalent Courses

MGMT412

Recommended Preparation

300-level courses in HRM and MGMT

Timetable Note

Class/Workshops: Friday 10.00am-2.00pm, usually on alternate weeks.
NOTE: This includes workshop time which is counted as part of the total course-work (the overall hours are equivalent to other courses).

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

Bernard Walker

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Part 1 - Casework Project 21 Aug 2015 10% Part 1 - Casework Project
Part 2 - In-course 50% Part 2 - In-course
Report 16 Oct 2015 40% Report


Grading
The marks for assessment can be scaled before a final grade is determined.  You should not regard a raw score of 50% as a pass mark.

Textbooks / Resources

Required Texts

Pruitt, Dean G. , Kim, Sung Hee, Rubin, Jeffrey Z; Social conflict : escalation, stalemate, and settlement ; 3rd ed; McGraw-Hill, 2004.

Course Readings on LEARN

Notes

Departmental Academic Policies for the MCom Programme If you want a hard copy of this document, please ask the course co-ordinator. The Department assumes that you have read this document.

You should also read the General Course and Examination Regulations

Dishonest Practice
The University of Canterbury considers cheating and plagiarism to be serious acts of dishonesty.  All assessed work must be your own individual work unless specifically stated otherwise in the assessment guidelines. Material quoted from any other source must be clearly acknowledged. You must not copy the work of another person (student or published work) in any assessment including examinations, tests and assignments. Any person, who is found to have copied someone else's work, or to have allowed their work to be copied, will receive a fail grade for that piece of assessment and may face disciplinary action which may lead to a fine, community service or exclusion from the university.

IMPORTANT: Where there are concerns regarding the authorship of written course work, a student can be required to provide a formal, oral explanation of the content of their work.

Coversheets - Group and Individual

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $880.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

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All MGMT612 Occurrences

  • MGMT612-15S1 (C) Semester One 2015 - Not Offered
  • MGMT612-15S2 (C) Semester Two 2015
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