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Focus on workplace relations
Monday, 05 March 2007
It’s common knowledge that good workplace relations add to the business bottom line, says AUT Professor of Employment Relations, Ray Markey.
Ray Markey
So a new business degree combined major — in Human Resource Management and Employment Relations — has been launched this year.
It aims to provide graduates with the skills to foster cooperative workplace relationships and avoid the pitfalls of mismanaged and negligent employment relations.
Markey says the demand for skills in the area of people management has grown exponentially.
“In the New Zealand environment post the Employment Relations Act (2000), an understanding of employment law and the role of actors external to the organisation, such as trade unions, have also become critical for managers.
“However, there is increasing recognition in business of the need for a holistic approach to people management by combining human resource management and employment relations or industrial relations disciplinary paradigms.”
He says New Zealand universities have been slow to recognise this need in their course offerings.
Existing majors in the degree were: accounting, advertising, business economics, commercial law, e-business, finance, Information Technology, international business, management, marketing, sales and tourism.
