325-215 Managerial Strategies in Organising Work

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325-215 Managerial Strategies in Organising Work
Availability	Not offered in 2003.
Credit Points	12.5
HECS Band	2
Coordinator	To be advised
Prerequisites	Entry to this subject is restricted to students who have completed 75 points of level-1 subjects (commerce or non-commerce).
Semester	Not Offered (view timetable)
Contact	Two 1-hour lectures and a 1-hour tutorial per week
Subject Description	This subject will examine the evolution and development of managerial strategies designed to motivate and control employees. Topics include the development of work organisation in capitalist economies; Taylorism and the impact of scientific management; human relations and the Hawthorne studies; the Neo-Human Relations School; labour process theory; neo-Fordist conceptions of work and the mobilisation of commitment.
Assessment	A 2-hour end-of-semester examination (60%) and assignments totalling not more than 2500 words (40%).

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