AHRI Council Meeting14/12/2012

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Placements within a topic

1st level placements are those undertaken with a specific topic.

For example; we recently had a group of OH&S students who went on site visits to companies to conduct OH&S surveys and reviews. Students presented their findings to their Lecturer and were assessed.

Each year we have approx. 40 Financial Planning students who undertake a 3 week placement as part of Summer & Winter intensive topics. Students undertaking Financial planning tasks in Financial institutions throughout Australia.

Flinders Business School would like to incorporate this type of industry engagement activity into most of our HRM topics.

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Work Integrated Learning (WIL) Program

WIL is a complete topic where a student spends approx. 150 hours in workplace to gain valuable real world work experience and puts into practice what they have learnt at University.

Offers benefits to employers e.g. provides extra assistance to team, new talent and fresh ideas and a potential recruitment pathway.

The student completes a reflective report at the end of the placement that is assessed and the student gains credit towards degree.

  This year we’ve had approximately 60 students undertake a placement.

  This link provides further information about the WIL program

http://www.flinders.edu.au/sabs/business/courses/wil/

Kristie Tanner recently completed a placement with Lyn’s HR Team at Courts.

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Industry Engagement  - research, education, consultancy, and partnerships

There are a number of research and partnership options which I have listed below. Note for research projects, in some cases cash contribution is needed to access external grants or scholarships, but in others only an in-kind contribution, or ‘access to your organisation as a research site’ would be needed to gain external funding.

Work Integrated Learning (WIL) placements of 2nd or 3rd year undergraduate students

Honours student projects. These may require only “in-kind” contribution from the organisation.

Research Higher Degree (MBus, PhD) projects. These may require only “in-kind” contribution from the organisation, or may require cash contributions linked to an external grant or scholarship.

Small contract research projects that have a ‘consultancy outcome’ for the organisation and a research publication outcome for Flinders. This can be linked to training or other consultancy activity $5,000 -$30,000. For example; a training program can be designed for your organisations specific needs, such as a volunteer mentoring training program. This may or may not involve research.

Small contract research involving Honours or Masters students, or other postgraduate researchers, under the supervision of FBS staff. The period of these projects is usually 1-2 years. Typically these would be in the range of $5,000-$30,000 cash contribution.

Larger contract research projects and research, with consultancy and research outcomes, that would involve PhD, Postdoctoral and FBS researchers.

Larger, joint research activities involving government grants and/or industry funds. These projects typically involve PhD students or a Post Doctoral researcher. An example of this form of funding is the Australian Research Council Linkage Scheme. A typical grant in a Business and Management area is approximately $90,000 - $250,000 over 3 years., subject to Industry matching 20% cash 30% in kind. There are, of course, other grant programs (that have different funding rules), that may be potential sources of ‘contract research’ funding.

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Human Resource Management Seminar Series

Save these dates:

•Managing Diversity Forum – Wednesday, 20 February, 2013•Mentoring Forum – Wednesday, 10 April, 2013

Seminars held at Flinders University City Campus – 182 Victoria Square.

•Managing in the Professions website: http://www.flinders.edu.au/sabs/business/research/mitp/mitp_home.cfm

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