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(including transnational corporations) and specific approaches
to industrial policy and regulation are discussed.
Recommended reading
Caves, R., Ward, I., Williams, P. and Wright, C. Australian
Industry Structure, Conduct and Performance. 2nd edn, Sydney,
Prentice Hall, 1987
Jones, R., (ed.) Australian Microeconomic Policies. 4th edn,
Sydney, Prentice Hall, 1994
BE223 Industrial Relations
3 hours per week Hawthorn Prerequisite: BE1 10
Microeconomics Assessment: examination/assignment
A subject in the Bachelor of Business
Objectives and Content
This subject aims to equip students with an understanding of
the Australian industrial relations systems, with particular
emphasis on the Federal and Victorian jurisdictions.
As well as providing a theoretical framework within which
the industrial relations systems operate, the subject will
address a range of contemporary issues including current
federal and state legislative provisions, labour market
reforms, trade union issues and the role of management in
industrial relations.
Topics to be studied within the subject include:
industrial conflict;
the role of the parties - unions, employers,
government;
federal and state arbitral systems;
waEe " determination;
management and industrial relations.
Specific Recommended reading will be provided at the
beginning of the subject, however, the following
Recommended reading will provide useful preliminary
reading.
Recommended reading
Alexander, R. and Lewer, J., Understanding Industrial Relations,
4th edn, Sydney, Harcourt Brace, 1996.
Deery, S. and Plowman, D. Australian Industrial Relations. 3rd
edn, Sydney, McGraw-Hill, 1996
Hill, J., Howard, W.A. and Lansbury, R. Industrial Relations: An
Australian Introduction. Melbourne, Longman Cheshire, 1982
BE224 Economic Evaluation
3 hours per week Hawthorn Prerequisite: BE1 10
Microeconomics Assessment: examination/assignment
A subject in the Bachelor of Business
Objectives and Content
This subject provides students with principles and
techniques of economic evaluation for application in areas
such as a review of the effectiveness of international
competitiveness, corporate ~erformance, budgetary
programs, evaluation of major construction projects and
capital equipment acquisition, and cost-effectiveness studies.
Recommended reading
Porter, M., The Competitive Advantage of Nations, Free Press, 1990
Department of Finance. Evaluating Government Programs
Financial Management Improvement Program. Canberra,
Australian Government Publishing Service, 1987
Hollick, M. An Introduction to Project Evaluation, Melbourne,
Longman Cheshire, 1993
BE226 Macroeconomic Policy
3 hours per week Hawthorn/Mooroolbark (semeter I)
Prerequisite: BE220 Macroeconomics ,4ssessment:
examination/assignment
A subject in the Bachelor of Business
Obiedves and Content
This is a second year subject which builds on the material
covered in BE220, the first year macro subject.
The main objectives of the subject are to:
broaden students' understanding and appreciation of
macroeconomic principles, current issues and policy;
provide students with the necessary skills to evaluate
macroeconomic policies and related debate.
Specific topics include: the measurement of macroeconomic
performance; limitations of major aggregate indicators,
sources of fluctuations in economic activity; major
macroeconomic problems and macroeconomic management
within an open economy.
The course will describe the deficiencies in earlier
macroeconomic theories which led to disaffection. The
theories now in vogue, and importantly the policies based
upon them, have their own limitations which will be
explained.
Recommended reading
McTaggart, D. et al. Macroeconomics. Wokingham, U.K., Addison
and Wesley, 1992
Stewart, Michael, Keynes in the 1990s. London, Penguin, 1993
Jackson, J., McIver, R., McConnell, C., Macroeconomics, 4th edn,
McGraw-Hill, Sydney, 1994
BE227 Environmental Economics
3 hours per week Hawthorn Prerequisite: BE110
Microeconomics 0 Assessment: examination/assignment
A subject in the Bachelor of Business
Obiecives and Content
The aim of this subject is to familiarise students with the
economic techniques that can be applied to problems of
environmental and natural resource management.
Topics include the costs and benefits of environmental
regulation; the importance of property rights; the
environmental impact of poverty and economic growth; the
need for sustainable development; the population problem;
the management of depletable and renewable natural
resources; and the economics of pollution control.
Recommended reading
Tietenberg, T. Environmental and Natural Resource Economics.
3rd edn, New York, Harper Collins, 1992
Pearce, D.W. and Turner, R.K. Economics of Natural Resources
and the Environment. Hempel Hempstead, Hens, U.K., Harvester
Wheatsheaf, 1990
Wallace, N. (ed.) Natural Resource Management: An Economic
Peqective. Canberra, Australian Bureau of Agricultural and
Resource Economics, 1992
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