Teaching Responsibility
LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
Liverpool Business School
Learning Methods
Workshop
Module Offerings
7206LBSMSC-JAN-MTP
7206LBSMSC-OCT-MTP
Aims
This module explores the different approaches organisations and people managers undertake to manage and develop employment relations. The module investigates the historical development of collective workplace negotiations, the relationship with trade unions and staff representatives and the move towards the individualisation of the employer / employee relationship.
Learning Outcomes
1.
Critically evaluate different approaches organisations and people managers undertake to manage and develop employment relations and employee engagement, voice, involvement, and participation.
2.
Investigate and analyse the role of leaders and organisation culture in forming the employment relationship.
3.
Strategically analyse and investigate the impact and influence external and internal stakeholders have on the management of employment relations within an organisation.
4.
Critically analyse the strategic role people professionals undertake to collaborate and negotiate with people representatives such as trade unions.
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:
- Approaching Employment Relations – Unitarism, Pluralism & Radical Perspectives Leadership and Employment Relations.
- The Balancing of Power & Fostering of Culture Cooperation and Conflict Within the Employment Relationship in Different Organisational Contexts.
- The Role of Trade Unions and Employee Representation – An Evolving Dynamic.
- The Influence of External Stakeholders and Contemporary Employment Relations.
- Evaluating Total & Smart Reward Strategies.
- Strategic and Effective Negotiations & Consultations.
- Globalisation and International Developments.
- The role of the State in Regulating Employment Relations.
- The Growth of Precarious Work – Economy, High and Low Skills and The Role of The Robot.
- Employee Engagement, Voice, Involvement & Participation.
- A Strategic People Approach Unlocking Organisational Performance Through Employee Voice.
- Strategic and Leadership Approaches to Disciplinary and Grievance – what does it say about the organisation?
Module Overview:
A specialist module on the Human Resources pathway (delivered in year 2). Learners will critically evaluate employment relation theories and conceptual frameworks and how these influence leadership approaches and relationship management within contemporary organisational settings.
A specialist module on the Human Resources pathway (delivered in year 2). Learners will critically evaluate employment relation theories and conceptual frameworks and how these influence leadership approaches and relationship management within contemporary organisational settings.