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Archived Version 2010 - 2011

Module Title International Employee Relations
Module Code HR568
School DCUBS

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Level 5 Credit Rating 5
Pre-requisite None
Co-requisite None
Module Aims

To provide 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 HR and its interactions with an increasingly competitive business settings. Contemporary initiatives in the area of business performance and HR will be examined. Students will become adept at recognising both mutually reinforcing links and dysfunctional inconsistencies. They will be knowledgable as to how mismanaged situations might be remedied.

Students will be introduced to topics via a ranges of guest lecturers.



Learning Outcomes
  • Be able to identify the historical, social, political, economic and legal factors which influence various employee relations jurisdictions.
  • To have an appreciation and understanding of the internal workings of selected individual national employee relations systems.
  • Be aware of the impact and influence of various selected international employee relations organisations in terms of their operations and recognised standing.


Indicative Time Allowances
Hours
Lectures 24
Tutorials
Laboratories
Seminars 12
Independent Learning Time 39
Total 75
Placements
Assignments
NOTE
Assume that a 5 credit module load represents approximately 75 hours' work, which includes all teaching, in-course assignments, laboratory work or other specialised training and an estimated private learning time associated with the module.

Indicative Syllabus
Assessment
Continuous Assessment50% Examination Weight50%
Indicative Reading List

Essential

Bamber, G.J. & Lansbury, R.D. (2004) International and Comparative Employee Relations. 4th Ed. Sage.

Eaton,J.(2000) Comparative Employment Relations. Polity Press.

Supplementary

Ferner,A.& Hyman, R. (1998) Changing Industrial Relations in Europe 2nd Ed. Blackwell Press.

Hyman,R.(2001) Understanding European Trade Unionism. Sage

Programme or List of Programmes
GDHRMGrad Dip in Human Resource Management
MHRMMasters in Human Resource Management
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