Module: International Employee Relations

Module Specifications.

Current Academic Year 2024 - 2025

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Date posted: September 2024

Module Title	International Employee Relations
Module Code	HR568 (ITS) / MNA1086 (Banner)
Faculty	DCU Business School	School	DCU Business School
Module Co-ordinator	Eugene Hickland
Module Teachers	Aurora Trif, Daryl D'Art
NFQ level	9	Credit Rating	5
Pre-requisite	Not Available
Co-requisite	Not Available
Compatibles	Not Available
Incompatibles	Not Available

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Description

This module provides students an insight into Irish Industrial Relations and a general appreciation of how it works. Additionally, it provides an understanding of the breadth and depth of the similarities and differences in the structure of international industrial relations in selected areas. This module will help students make sense of what is happening in the field of industrial relations and its interactions with an increasingly competitive business settings. Students are expected to attend lectures, prepare for and contribute to class discussions.

Learning Outcomes

1. Critically analyse the role of trade unions and employers’ associations in Ireland
2. Examine similarities and differences between national systems of industrial relations in liberal-market economies and in coordinated market economies
3. Assess the role and influence of international institutions in setting international labour standards
4. Analyse the convergence / divergence debate in international industrial relations

*Type*	*Hours*	*Description*
Workload	Full-time hours per semester
Lecture	24	One two hour weekly lecture
Group work	36	Class presentation on selected areas of industrial relations system
Independent Study	70	Private study
Total Workload: 130

All module information is indicative and subject to change. For further information,students are advised to refer to the University's Marks and Standards and Programme Specific Regulations at: http://www.dcu.ie/registry/examinations/index.shtml

Indicative Content and Learning Activities

Industrial Relations in Ireland
Trade unions, employers' associations, collective barganing and social partnership.

Comparative / International Industrial Relations
Definitions and distinctions, Convergence or divergence and related industrial relations theories.

National Industrial Relations Frameworks
International trends in trade union membership; examine frameworks (employers, trade unions, governments, legislation, collective bargaining, dispute resolution) in selected countries.

International Industrial Relations Organisations
The International Lanour Organisation (ILO), International trade Union / employer confederations and federations (i.e. ICFTU, ETUC, Business Europe).

Assessment Breakdown
Continuous Assessment	100%	Examination Weight	0%

Type	Description	% of total	Assessment Date
Course Work Breakdown
Group presentation	An examination of selected areas of the Industrial Relations System in two countries.	30%

Reassessment Requirement Type
Resit arrangements are explained by the following categories: Resit category 1: A resit is available for both* components of the module. Resit category 2: No resit is available for a 100% continuous assessment module. Resit category 3: No resit is available for the continuous assessment component where there is a continuous assessment and examination element.
* ‘Both’ is used in the context of the module having a Continuous Assessment/Examination split; where the module is 100% continuous assessment, there will also be a resit of the assessment
This module is category 1

Indicative Reading List

Bamber, G.J. & Lansbury, R.D.: 2004, International and Comparative Employee Relations, 4th, Sage,
Morley, M.J., Gunnigle, P. & Collings, G.: 2006, Global Industrial relations, Routledge,
Croucher, R. & Cotton, E.: 2009, Global Unions Global Business, Middlesex University Press,
Erne, R.: 2008, European Unions: Labor's Quest for a Transnational Democracy, ILR Press (Cornell University Press),

Other Resources

5912, Lecture Handouts, J-K Barrett, 0, Class MateriaLS,