AHRI Council Meeting
14/12/2012
Short
Placements
within HR
topics
HRM
Research
Work
Integrated
Learning
program
Kristie’s
story
HRM
Professions
Seminar
Series
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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
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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.
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Offers benefits to employers e.g. provides extra assistance to team, new talent and fresh
ideas and a potential recruitment pathway.
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The student completes a reflective report at the end of the placement that is assessed
and the student gains credit towards degree.
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This year we’ve had approximately 60 students undertake a placement.
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This link provides further information about the WIL program
http://www.flinders.edu.au/sabs/business/courses/wil/
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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.
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Work Integrated Learning (WIL) placements of 2nd or 3rd year undergraduate students
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Honours student projects. These may require only “in-kind” contribution from the organisation.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Larger contract research projects and research, with consultancy and research outcomes, that would involve PhD, Postdoctoral
and FBS researchers.
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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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