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Employment options for years 2 & 3

Employment options for years 2 & 3. The HRM and Industrial Relations teaching group offer 6 modules: 3 second year options 4 final year options. YEAR 2 Employment Relations Stephen Mustchin & anne mcbride. 1 0 credits, Semester 1 Weekly 2-hour lecture and a 1-hour seminar

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Employment options for years 2 & 3

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  1. Employment options for years 2 & 3 The HRM and Industrial Relations teaching group offer 6 modules: • 3 second year options • 4 final year options

  2. YEAR 2Employment RelationsStephen Mustchin & annemcbride • 10 credits, Semester 1 • Weekly 2-hour lecture and a 1-hour seminar • Learning objectives: • To understand the challenges of managing the employment relationship by: • identifying and examining factors which shape the employment relationship (e.gtrade union and management practices, the role of the state, regulation, pay determination and collective bargaining, conflict, labour markets and vulnerable employment) • critically assessing policies and practices of key ‘actors’ in the employment relationship (management, trade unions and the state) • identifying and assessing trends in employment relations (e.glabour market trends, union influence, work reorganisation and management practices) • Assessment • 2,500 word essay

  3. YEAR 2GLOBALISATION & EMPLOYMENTArjan Keizer, Damian Grimshaw and stefaniamarino • 10 credits, Semester 2 • 10 x 1.5 hour lecture plus weekly seminar • 25% coursework (group presentation and individual assignment) plus 75% exam • Introduces students to key employment issues arising from the internationalisation of economy, society and labour markets • The weakened role of the nation state? • Global production networks • Offshoring of jobs • Labour migration • Regulating labour in a global world

  4. YEAR 2Social diversity and employment inequalityisabeltavora & stefaniamarino • 10 credits, Semester 2 • 10 x 1.5 hour lecture plus weekly seminar • Assessment: 100% 2,000 word essay • Explores different forms and sources of labour market inequality and disadvantage at work – and how to address them • Gender, employment and the family: women’s choice or social constraints limiting women’s career opportunities? • Ethnicity, migration and multiple disadvantage • Precarious work as a source of inequality • Employment polarisation in the service economy: knowledge-based occupations versus customer service and low skilled work • High pay, social advantage and class

  5. Final yearCOMPARATIVE INDUSTRIAL RELATIONSstephenmustchin & stefaniamarino • 20 credits, semester one and five weeks of semester two • Weekly two-hour lecture and a single one hour seminar. • Central objectives: • to identify and explain national differences in industrial relations practices; • to examine the development of industrial relations practices that originate at the level of the European Union. • Covers: Britain, Germany, Sweden, France and Hungary. • Assessment: a single essay of 4,000 words delivered in late March.

  6. Final yearHuman Resource Management BMAN32001Isabel Tavora, Jill Rubery & gailhebson • 20 credits • Different facets of Human Resource Management • Best practice HRM, Best fit and resource-based view • Recruitment and selection, training and development, careers, pay and performance management • International differences in HRM and the role of MNCs • Employee voice • HRM in service work, emotional labour, knowledge work • HRM in recession and recovery • Work-life balance, equal opportunities and diversity management • Essay - end of semester 1 (50% of mark). • Exam - end of semester 2 (50% of mark). • 2 hour lecture each week; 1 hour seminar per two weeks

  7. Final yearGLOBALISATION & NATIONAL EMPLOYMENT SYSTEMSDamian Grimshaw &Arjan Keizer • 10 credit course, first semester • 2-hour lecture plus 1-hour seminar • 25% 750-word essay plus 75% exam • Key questions: • What are the different characteristics of national models of employment? • How do finance, welfare and employment regulations shape employment • Is there ‘one best way’ or divergence of employment models? • Content: • The influence of production systems and corporate governance on employment in different country contexts • Welfare regimes, family and gender • Skill systems, inequality • Balancing flexibility and regulation

  8. final yearInternational HRM (IHRM), BMAN 31672 stefaniamarino & Miguel Martinez Lucio Semester 2, 10 credit course • Examines the issues and challenges associated with the internationalisation of organisations and the resulting HR strategies, policies and practices • Focuses on functions (recruitment, selection, development and compensation in MNCs), HQ-Subsidiary relations, managing international assignments, international management development, issues of diversity management, global corporate social responsibility. • Explains the developments in the international regulatory environment • 100% examination assessment

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