The environment of Employment Relations and its impact on policies and strategies. - The parties to Employment Relations: Employees; Trade Unions; Managers; Employers Associations; structures, objectives and ideologies - Key processes: Collective Bargaining; Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration; Employee Consultation, - Participation and Involvement. Management of conflict - The Role of the State and its influence on the changing economic and legal context. State institutions and their impact on the Employment Relations system. - The challenges of Globalisation and developments in the European Union.

Salamon, M. (2000) Industrial Relations: Theory and Practice (4th Edition) F.T./Prentice Hall

Libraries
The Internet

The assessment: 80% Case Analysis with a Group Presentation worth 20%.

1. DEMONSTRATE SYSTEMATIC KNOWLEDGE AND CRITICAL UNDERSTANDING OF CONCEPTS, INSTITUTIONS AND PROCESSES OF EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS
Knowledge & Understanding

2. DEVELOP COHERENT ARGUMENTS AND INFORMED SOLUTIONS TO KEY PROBLEMS IN EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS AND CONFLICT MANAGEMENT
Knowledge & Understanding

3. EFFECTIVELY DEPLOY AND COMMUNICATE CRITICAL ARGUMENTS FOR SOLUTIONS TO PROBLEMS Application
Communication

The learning strategy for this module is based around students committing a total of 150 hours of activities towards achieving the learning outcomes. These will be split between 39 hours of direct contact with a tutor and 111 hours of directed, guided and self-study, together with preparation for and completion of the assessment tasks. Learning support material will be provided for the module.
The module will draw upon a mixture of activities including lectures, web-based activities, case study analysis, relevant videos and in-class discussions, individual and group problem solving and self-directed learning.