114343

Healthy Workplaces

COURSE GUIDE

Semester 2, 2024

What is this course about?

Summary of the course

Welcome to 114343 Healthy Workplaces! In this course, we will explore the key elements that contribute to a healthy work environment. The course will begin with an overview of the evolution of work and establish a theoretical foundation by introducing various theories in workplace well-being literature. We will also delve into various psychosocial risk factors that can affect individual well-being and organisational performance, examine individual coping strategies to manage stress and enhance personal resilience, and discuss effective organisational interventions designed to promote a positive and supportive work environment. This content will be examined within the social, cultural, and legal contexts of both New Zealand and international literature.

Course student learning outcomes

•    Identify and explain relevant theories, principles, and factors required for creating and sustaining healthy workplaces.

•    Identify and analyse the impact of relevant factors on creating and sustaining healthy workplaces.

•    Identify and critically evaluate appropriate responses for managing psychosocial risk factors and outcomes in work contexts.

Relationship to other courses

This course is a progression from 114.241 (Principles of Human Resources Management),  114.254 (Employment Relations), and 114.240 (Organisational Behaviour) . This course is a subject source for the BBus major in Human Resource Management and Employment Relations. For someone not enrolled in this major, this course would help give you theoretical and applied knowledge of psychosocial risk factors and the identification and evaluation of appropriate strategies for creating and sustaining healthy workplaces.

Course role in development of programme learning goals

In addition to being a subject course for the HRMER major. Successful completion of this course serves as contributing evidence of having achieved Programme Learning Goal 7:   Graduates will have sound awareness of ethical, social, cultural and environmental implications of business practice.

How is this course assessed?

Formal Requirements to pass this course

There is no requirement to pass each individual piece of assessment. The only requirement is that your final grade (which is determined by aggregating your performance from all three assessment tasks) must be 50% or more.

NB. Due to the potential of unforeseen developments (for example, recent years have seen pandemic and weather event related disruption), please refer to the course Stream site for updated information regarding lectures, assessments, etc.  This information will be regularly updated if the situation changes.

The assessment at a glance

Oral confirmation checks of assessment submissions may be used within the course, from time to time, for verification purposes. This will involve a conversation between the student and the instructor (in person or online) to discuss the student’s assignment submission. These conversations are usually 5-10 minutes long.

Communicating with each other

The primary means of communication, further to our interaction in the lectures, are the Stream forums. These can be found under the Communication Tools tab on Stream. Please use these forums to communicate with us, rather than contacting usvia email. This is because messages from individual student email accounts are sometimes misidentified by Massey email systems as spam, and filtered out – ensure we hear from you by communicating via the Stream  forums.

There are  several forums, each with a different purpose. They include:

News forum: This is a one-way forum from us to you. Look here for important updates about this course. Note that these announcements will automatically be sent to your registered email address. If you see an email with 114343 in the subject line, PLEASE READ IT - it will be important!

Student Discussion: Use this forum to chat with your classmates. This forum will not be monitored by staff.

Personal Communication : Use this to confidentially communicate with course staff about private  matters, such as ill health, personal issues, etc.

Course Information: (think of this as a “Student to Coordinator Public Questions forum”) .  Use

this to post general course-related questions and receive answers that are visible to all participants.

Other forums may include one or more Assessments Forum for queries about assessments.

If you  "subscribe" to a forum, new messages get emailed to you (this is automatic for the News Forum, but for the others, you need to subscribe yourself).

Communication expectations

We expect everyone in the Massey community to communicate courteously, appropriately, and constructively in all exchanges, as Massey's guidelines stipulate.

In terms of specific messages, it’s important to be clear from the outset both what I expect of you and what you can expect of me. Here is what you can reasonably expect of me:

•    responses to all discussion forum postings within 48 hours during the working week (Monday-Friday);

•    responses to any personal communication within 48 hours during the working week.

Within reason, I also have a couple of expectations of you:

•    use a meaningful subject line in your discussion postings;

•    use the Stream discussion forums appropriately;

•   support your colleagues in the course – that means encourage, help, and respect your fellow students.