Managing Conflict at Work

This subject has the following teaching availabilities in 2016:

85 hours

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This subject focuses on building knowledge and skills to enable organizations to manage workplace relations conflicts for productive outcomes. It introduces principles of effective negotiation and conflict resolution, and their application to different formal procedures available for resolving conflicts under Australian workplace relations law.

It provides participants with opportunities to apply these principles through simulations and conflict resolution exercises, and the examination of real cases that have been subject to formal dispute resolution processes before an industrial tribunal. The first part of the program lays the foundations for understanding effective dispute resolution by examining the nature of workplace conflict, conflict management styles, and principles for resolving workplace disputes effectively. The second part focuses on the legal framework regulating workplace dispute resolution procedures, and how to manage formal conciliation and mediation processes and how these can be used to create sustainable resolution of workplace conflicts.

• Understand the range of techniques available for effective resolution of workplace disputes, and how to achieve more sustainable outcomes.
• Develop a working knowledge of formal procedures for workplace dispute resolution procedures
• Experience how formal procedures for dispute resolution work in practice, and how to work within them.

2,500 word assignment on the effectively managing workplace relations dispute resolution procedures in a selected case study (100%)

A study guide with readings and cases will be provided before the commencement of the subject.

This subject is not available as a breadth subject.