Department of Management

1. The department

Following the merger of Monash University, Chisholm Institute and the Gippsland Institute of Advanced Education, a new Faculty of Business and Economics was formed in 1993. The faculty now offers undergraduate and postgraduate courses on five campuses in Victoria - Caulfield, Clayton, Gippsland, Peninsula and Berwick -- as well as overseas.

The Faculty of Business and Economics operates as six departments: Accounting and Finance; Business Law and Taxation; Econometrics and Business Statistics; Economics; Management; Marketing.

The faculty has over 12,200 students, including approximately 1,800 postgraduates. There are 376 academic staff in the faculty.

The Department of Management has 76 teaching staff across the Berwick, Caulfield, Clayton, Peninsula and Gippsland campuses, and a student load of 2,000 undergraduate and postgraduate EFTSU in its courses.

Research units, centres and groups of the department include:

The Australian Consortium for Effective Organisations - established to encourage greater levels of interaction between industry and the research community. The consortium has taken a broader view of management thinking than antecedent research centres, encompassing a full range of the latest theories, concepts and applications in its search for effective organisational practice.

National Key Centre in Industrial Relations – conducts a graduate studies program in industrial relations, conducts research on contemporary issues in industrial and employee relations, and offers a consulting service on industrial relations issues.

Leadership Research Unit - the objective of the unit is to bring together staff with leadership research interests. It is responsible for conducting industry-specific and academically rigorous research on leadership-related issues.

Principal areas of research in the department are career advancement, change management, enterprise bargaining, entrepreneurship, human research management, industrial and employee relations, innovation, international business, knowledge management, leadership, operations and technology management, organisational culture, privatisation, public sector management, quality management, strategic management, systems thinking and organisational learning, trade unions, tourism management, and women in management.

More information about:

• Faculty of Business and Economics (www.buseco.monash.edu.au)
• Research in the faculty (www.buseco.monash.edu.au/mgt/research/)
• Courses offered by the faculty (www.buseco.monash.edu.au/study/)
• Department of Management (www.buseco.monash.edu.au/mgt/)
• Leadership Research Unit (www.buseco.monash.edu.au/units/tru/)

2. General policy statement

The Collection Development Policy covers printed books and journals, electronic resources, multimedia and any other formats acquired for the Library's collection.

The Policy is regularly monitored to ensure that the selection and acquisition of new resources supports the teaching and research needs of the faculties and their departments. While every effort is made to meet known information needs some gaps in the collection may develop which need attention, and suggestions to address them are welcome. This may be done through liaison with library staff or, for individual titles, using the recommendation form at lib.monash.edu.au/forms/acquisition-request.doc

To ensure that the library provides collection materials to support new courses and subjects, completion of a Library Impact Statement lib.monash.edu.au/forms/impact.doc is required. When establishing new research directions staff are encouraged to liaise with the library about the provision of supporting information resources.

All titles listed as prescribed or recommended reading for teaching subjects are acquired as high priority and in multiple copies depending on student enrolment numbers. This is particularly necessary for undergraduate students, who need access to adequate resources on their home campus. Electronic versions of these texts are also provided where possible, so that access is more readily available regardless of location and number of copies held. The inter-campus loan and photocopy services for undergraduates further support the needs of those students.

However, the library cannot acquire every item that could conceivably be needed by Monash staff or students. The reciprocal borrowing scheme enables Monash library users to borrow from other university libraries. Post-graduates and staff may also use the document delivery service to obtain books and articles from other libraries in Australia and overseas.

3. The library's collection

a. Location

Material acquired for the Department of Management is located on the Gippsland, Caulfield, Clayton, Peninsula and Berwick campuses.

Material in the areas of organisational and industrial psychology is also purchased by the Department of Psychology (Faculty of Medicine), and located in the Hargrave-Andrew Library on the Clayton campus, and in the Gippsland, Berwick and Caulfield libraries.

b. Language

Generally only material in the English language is acquired.

c. Classification used

Material acquired for the Department of Management is classified using the Dewey Decimal Classification.

d. Formats collected

While no format is excluded, and the collection includes such media as transparencies and videorecordings, the majority of resources are monographs and serials, both print and electronic.

e. Size of the collection

Number of print serial titles received : Approximately 230 titles are received, with 95 being located in the Matheson Library and the rest distributed between the Caulfield, Gippsland, Peninsula and Berwick libraries.

f. Significant electronic resources

The library is purchasing increased numbers of resources in electronic format, including networked or internet databases, fulltext resources, including suites of electronic journals. Access to these resources is available across all branches and remotely. As a result, an increasing proportion of the budget for library material for the Faculty of Business and Economics is spent on these resources.

These include

Indexing and abstracting services

• AIM Management and Training Database,
• Worklit,

• ABI/Inform (1000 titles of which approximately half are in fulltext),
• Expanded Academic ASAP (over 1,500 titles, of which approximately 520 are in fulltext),
• Emerald (fulltext journal database from 1994 -)
• Workplace Info
• Lexis Nexis (fulltext or abstracts in over 6,000 sources);

Subject gateways

• Monash library business and economics faculty team page (available www.lib.monash.edu.au/subjects/business-and-economics.html),

g. Coverage of the collection

The library resources acquired for the department cover in general all areas of the Dewey Decimal Classification in 331, labour economics, and 658, management.

The main areas of collecting for the Department of Management are detailed below

Clayton (Matheson Library) - The Matheson collection comprises resources for teaching and learning across the management sub-disciplines. Research works are held in:

• 302.35 organisational behaviour,
• 331 labour economics,
• 658 management,
• 658.15 organisation and finance,
• 658.3 personnel management, and
• 658.4 executive management.

Caulfield - Caulfield offers an extensive collection, focusing on undergraduate and postgraduate teaching across all areas of management. Research works are principally held in: 331 labour economics (industrial relations); 658 management; and 658.4 executive management. The collection is estimated at 18,000 volumes.

The Caulfield Reference collection includes a strong focus on company and industry information (both local and overseas).

The Caulfield print journal collection, in conjunction with an extensive range of electronic journals, indexes and databases, supports both teaching and research in all areas of management. 

Peninsula and Berwick - The Peninsula and Berwick collections focus on the teaching and learning requirements of undergraduate courses in management, including international business at Peninsula. The collection at Peninsula is estimated at 6,000 volumes.

At Berwick active collection building and significant expansion of the original collection has been undertaken since the start of 1999 when substantial additional space became available.

Gippsland - The Gippsland library has a good general collection to support undergraduate teaching in management. There are particularly strong collections in general management, industrial relations, financial management, personnel management, general executive management and production management. The collection is estimated at 13,000 items.

Future collection development

Peninsula, Berwick and Gippsland - The Peninsula and Berwick collections will be developed principally in accordance with the needs of the Bachelor of Business and Commerce courses offered there.

4. Other significant Monash collections or resources

Nil

Collections Table

(T = teaching level, R = research level)

Amendment history

November 2000

First issued. Amended March 2004

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