Module Handbook

International and Comparative Employment Relations Module Leader: Professor Tony Royle

Module Code: MAN0324M

Academic Year: 2014/15

Academic Year: 2014/15

S O M UG HANDBOOK 2014 /5 S C H O O L O F M A N A G E M E N T

1. General

2. Overview of Module and Module Descriptor

Provider: School of Management

Module Title: INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS

Module Code: MAN0324M

Principal Co-ordinator: Head of Group, HRM/OB

Additional Tutors: Prof. Tony Royle and Yvonne Rueckert

Teaching Period: Semester 2

Academic Year: 2014/15

Module Occurrence: A

Module Credit: 10

Level: 3 (Undergraduate)

Pre-requisite(s): None

Co-requisite(s): None

Aims:

To introduce and apply the theoretical perspectives and concepts for the comparative study of

employment relations. To compare and analyse the employment relations of various regions (for

example the European Union) and countries and their economic and social outcomes. To identify key

developments in international and comparative employment relations and their implications; including

the increase in the activity of multinational enterprises (MNEs), the challenge of regulating MNEs for

labour and the organization and responses of the global unions.

Learning Teaching and Assessment Strategy:

The module consists of 12 weekly one-hour lectures and 5 one-hour seminars. The seminars concern

(small) group discussions of both issues introduced in the lectures and additional case-studies on

(changes in) national employment relations and international human resource management.

Study Hours:

Lectures: 12.00 Directed Study: 80.50

Seminars/Tutorials: 6.00 Other: 0.00

Laboratory/Practical: 0.00 Formal Exams: 1.50 Total: 100.00

Learning Outcomes:

1. Knowledge & Understanding

On successful completion of this module you will have knowledge of the employment relations in various

economic regions and countries, and the issues that characterise the management of human resources

in multinational corporations and their regulation in relation to employment.

2. Subject-Specific Skills

On successful completion of this module you will be able to compare the employment relations of various

countries and their economic and social outcomes and also the impact of the European Union and

discuss the role and impact of multinationals and the problem of regulating labour standards in the

global economy, you will also develop an understanding of the complexities of working in different

systems of employment relations.

3. Personal Transferable Skills

On successful completion of this module you will understand employment relations as socially

constructed practices and the implications this has for employment relations and human resource

strategies that individual (multinational) firms can or cannot implement in diverse institutional settings.

Critical comparison and discussion are expected to hone analytical and argumentative skills.

Mode of Assessment:

1. Assessment Type Duration Percentage

Examination - closed book 1.5 hours 70%

2. Assessment Type Duration Percentage

Coursework 30%

Group assessment 2500 words or equivalent

Supplementary Assessment:

As Original

Outline Syllabus:

This module will discuss the following:

The different perspectives available for the comparative study of employment relations;

The differences in national systems of employment relations, including those related to trade union

organization, the role of the state, employers and their organizations

European integration and legislation in particular focusing on European Court of Justice rulings and their

implications for national employment relations systems and development of the three main employee

information and consultation directives

The difficulties of regulating labour standards in Multinational enterprises and the challenge they create

for labour (the role played by the ILO and growth of corporate social responsibility initiatives

The MNE challenge facing trade unions, the organisation of the global unions in dealing with MNEs and

their responses

3. Assessment Criteria and Marking Guidelines

There can be no meaningful participation without legislation’

Private corporate codes and corporate social responsibility are the best means to

protect the interests of employees in multinational companies’

3.1 Assessment Timetable

3.2 Exam Preparation

3.3 Standard Expected

3.4 Coursework Submission

4. Schedule of Work / Topics

Bulletin of Comparative Labour Relations

Employment Policy in the European Union

The Oxford Handbook

of Participation In Organizations.

,

International Journal of Human Resource Management,

Economic and Industrial Democrac

Industrial

Relations Journal

Labor History

Global Unions Global Business

4.1 Ground Rules for Learning and Teaching

5. Communication

6. Support for Your Learning

6.1 Specific Support Materials for Module

critical

appreciation insightful application at work

evaluate

Insightful application

please note the requirements for preparatory work for seminars below.

If you have not done the

preparatory work for a session, module tutors will exclude you from tutorials and you

will be marked on registers as absent.

6.2 Reading List

Comparative Employment Relations in the Global

Economy

International and Comparative

Industrial Relations,

Research Handbook ofComparative

Employment Relations

Global Unions, Global Business

Comparative Employment Relations

Changing Industrial Relations in Europe,

The International Handbook of Labour

Unions

Employment Policy in the European Union

Management and Labour in Europe

Global Industrial Relations

TheOrganisation of Employment: An

International Perspective

Working for McDonald’s in Europe

Industrial Relations Theory and Practice

) Comparative Industrial and

Employment Relations

Industrial Relations in Europe, Traditions

and Transitions

Varieties of Capitalism: The Institutional Foundations

of Comparative Advantage

Employment Relations in a Changing

World Economy

Internal Labor Markets

Journal of Labor Research

Industrial Relations Journal

What Workers Want

What Workers Say

Varieties of Unionism, Strategies for Union

revitalization in a Globalizing Economy

Work, Employment and Society,

Industrial

Relations Journal

The Representation Gap

Industrial Relations Journal

British Journal of Industrial Relations

Industrial Relations Journal

Trade Unions in Eur

The Dynamics of Employee Relations,

Industrial

Relations Journal,

British Journal of

Industrial Relations

Labor Studies Journal

Economic and Industrial

Democracy

, Industrial Relations Journal,

Employee Relations

British Journal of Industrial Relations

, Industrial Relations Journal

Monthly Labour Review

)

Why We Need a Welfare State

Why Deregulate Labour Markets?

Global Trends in Flexible Labour

Changing Industrial Relations in Europe (2nd

Edition)

Industrial Relations

The Sage Handbook of Industrial

Relations

Work, Employment and Society

British Journal of Industrial Relations

British Journal of Industrial Relations

Industrial Relations Journal

British Journal of Industrial Relations

EC Employment Law

European Journal of Industrial Relations

Industrial Law Journal

Employment Policy in the European Union

Social Policy in the European Union

Labour laws and Global trade

Economic and Industrial Democracy

European Journal of

Industrial Relations

Journal of Common Market Studies,

British

Journal of Industrial Relations

What Workers Say

Participation and Democracy at Work

Management and Labour in Europe,

Working for McDonald’s in Europe

British Journal of Industrial Relations,

Works Councils: Consultation, Representation and

Cooperation in Industrial Relations

British Journal of Industrial Relations

The Oxford Handbook

of Participation In Organizations.

EC Employment Law

Employment Policy in the

European Union

European Journal of Industrial Relations

European Works Councils. Pessimism of the

Intellect, Optimism of the Will

Industrial Relations Journal

Employee Relations

Industrial Relations Journal

European Journal of Industrial Relations

Bulletin of Comparative Labour Relations

European Journal of Industrial Relations

European Works Councils: A Transnational Industrial Relations

Institution in the Mak

European Journal of Industrial Relations

Multinationals, Insitutions and

the Construction of Transnational Practices

International Human Resource

Managemen

Unfair Advantage: worker’s freedom of association in the

United States under international human rights standards

No Logo

Working for McDonald’s in Europe

European Journal of Industrial

Relations

Industrial Relations Journal

Labor History

Cambridge Journal of Economics

Berkeley Journal of

Employment and Labour Law

Globalization of precarious Forms of

Production and Employment

International Law and Politics

Comparative Labor law and Policy Journal

Social and Labour Rights in a Global Context

Labour Laws and Global Trade

International Labour

Review

European Journal of

International Law

Politics and Society

Business Ethics: A European Review

International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations

Development and Change

Global Unions, Global Business

Labour Studies Journal

Global Unions? Theory and Strategies of

Organized Labour in the Global Political Economy

Globalization and Patterns of Labour Resistance

Globalization and Labour: Democratizing Global

Governance

European Journal of Industrial Relations

Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and

Society

Global Unions: Challenging Transnational Capital

Through Cross-Border Campaigns

Transfer

British

Journal of Industrial Relations

British Journal of Industrial Relations,

British Journal of Industrial Relations

Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal

Economic and Industrial Democracy

Employee Relations

European Industrial Relations Journal

Human Resource Management Journal

Industrial Law Journal

International Human Resource Management Journal

Industrial Relations Journal

Industrial relations

International Journal of Comparative Labour law and Industrial Relations

International Labour Review

Journal of Industrial Relations

Journal of Labor Research

Labor Studies Journal

Labor History

European Industrial Relations Review

Human Resource Management Journal

Personnel Review

Policy studies Journal

Politics and Society

Transfer

Work Employment and Society

Work and occupations

WorkingUSA

7. Developing Good Academic Practice

STUDENTS ARE REQUIRED TO READ THESE PRIOR TO

COMPLETING AND SUBMITTING ASSIGNMENTS.

i.e.

Style

Standard Expected

Length

Referencing

Human Resource Management

Career Development International

Personnel on the Internet

PC Magazine

Plagiarism

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an examination room under supervision but which is submitted by a student

for formal assessment during his/her course of study must be written by the

candidate him/herself and in his/her own words, except for quotations from

published and unpublished sources which shall be clearly indicated and

acknowledged as such......The incorporation of material from other works or

a paraphrase of such material without acknowledgement will be treated as

plagiarism subject to the custom and usage of the subject.....”

New Review of

Academic Librarianship,

8. Student Charter

9. Complaints and Appeals

10. Module Feedback from Previous Students

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