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Year 4 Politics.
Credit points: 16.7 4th year
Coordinator: Ann Capling and Mark Considine.
Prerequisite: Admission to fourth-year Political Science.
Contact: A 2-hour seminar a week.
Timetable: Second semester
Objectives:
The aims of this subject are:
- to equip students to analyse and explain contemporary practices in workplace organisation and management;
- to identify and explain those changes most likely to influence public policy making;
- to investigate the impact of economic rationalism, managerialism and agency theory;
- to examine the influence of privatisation, corporatisation and contacting in public organisations;
- to identify and examine recent trends in the industrial relations system;
- to provide a framework for understanding Total Quality Management, Benchmarking, and Performance Improvement schemes;
- to provide students with the skills and methods necessary for the completion of advanced research projects in this field.
Content:
The subject examines the significant shifts in work, career, management and workplace organisation which have occurred in the public and private spheres in the past ten years, including: unemployment and underemployment, broadbanding and multi-skilling, total quality management, industrial and EEO democracy, performance evaluation and managerialism, contracting and privatisation.
Assessment:
Written work totalling 6,000 words
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