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Performance & Reward Management (MGMT90016)

Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5On Campus (Parkville)

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This subject focuses on the design and evaluation of performance and reward management systems for both managerial and non-managerial employees. In the first half of the semester we will examine a range of design and operational challenges with performance management systems and the second half of the semester we will examine reward systems, with a particular emphasis on performance pay plans and their implications for employees, managers, unions and organisations.

Intended learning outcomes

Identify the key features of individual, group and organisational level reward systems and the relationships between each type of reward system

Generic skills

On successful completion of this subject, students should have improved the following generic skills

  • Critical thinking, which should be fostered by the application of theories relevant to performance management systems and to contemporary organisational practice;
  • Problem solving, which should be developed by assignments that will require students to apply principles discussed in lectures and readings to their own or hypothetical situations; and
  • Oral and written communication, which should be developed in class discussion and in preparation of written assignments.

Last updated: 8 February 2026