1001EHR Lecture 1: Work and Employability Lecture notes week 1
30 May 2018
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Work and Employability Lecture week 1
Learning objectives:
1. Key processes and strategies for managing people at work
2. Understand the role of employees and the skills needed to enhance their
employability
3. Understand the role of employers and how to manage people in organizations
4. Make connections between the course content and its relevance personally and
professionally
5. Understand the importance of effective communication and interpersonal relations
in workplace
Introduction to the labour market and world of work
Workplace trends:
1. Generations Z for internships
2. More millennials as leaders
3. Honesty is the best policy
4. Wider skills gap
5. Continuous job searches
6. Mobile hiring
7. Social media
8. Succession planning
9. Women in power positions
10. Non-traditional career paths
Australian Labour Market:
• 11.9 million people employed in Australia
• more than two thirds work full-time and 46% are female
• approx. 39% of workers are aged 45 years and over and 16% are young (15 5o 24
years)
The Employment Relationship:
• the relationship between employers and employees over terms and conditions for
employment and work, which when settled, becomes both a binding agreement in
law and informal understanding between people
• Types of employment relationship
o Implicit (e.g. psychological contract- expectations)
o Explicit (e.g. employment contract)
• Employment relationship features
o Multifaceted continuous relationship
o Complex- not only economic, but social, legal and psychological dimensions
o Mutual responsibilities
o Tangible and intangible
o Indeterminate and incomplete
o Cooperation and conflict
o Ethics, power and negotiation
• Actors in the employment relationship
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• Theories underpinning employment relations
Document Summary
Introduction to the labour market and world of work. Workplace trends: generations z for internships, more millennials as leaders, honesty is the best policy, wider skills gap, continuous job searches, mobile hiring, social media, succession planning, women in power positions, non-traditional career paths. Australian labour market: 11. 9 million people employed in australia, more than two thirds work full-time and 46% are female, approx. 39% of workers are aged 45 years and over and 16% are young (15 5o 24 years) The employment relationship: the relationship between employers and employees over terms and conditions for employment and work, which when settled, becomes both a binding agreement in law and informal understanding between people: types of employment relationship. Implicit (e. g. psychological contract- expectations: explicit (e. g. employment contract, employment relationship features, multifaceted continuous relationship, complex- not only economic, but social, legal and psychological dimensions, mutual responsibilities, tangible and intangible, cooperation and conflict, ethics, power and negotiation.
