Employee and Labor Relations
General
Prefix
MGMT
Course Number
551
Course Level
Graduate
Department/Unit(s)
College/School
Herberger Business School
Description
The management of employee-employer relationships. Individual versus collective bargaining (organizing, negotiating and bargaining), dispute resolution, and alternative labor-capital conflict resolution systems in the U.S. and other countries.
Credits
Min
3
Max
3
Repeatable
No
Goals and Diversity
MN Goal Course
No
Cultural Diversity
No
Learning Outcomes
Outcome
Describe the grievance and arbitration processes typical in unionized U.S. private sector firms and the critical ways in which they differ from typical employer-employee conflict resolution (or administration) systems in nonunion U.S. firms.
Outcome
Describe how critical elements of the U.S. employment and labor relations systems differ from systems in several other countries that are important U.S. trading partners.
Outcome
Identify and describe the impact of several unique environmental factors and critical events that produced the labor relations system and federal labor laws of the U.S.A.
Outcome
Understand (from 451 to 551 in difficulty: identify, describe, articulate, compare and contrast) the underlying interests and conflicts in employee and labor relations.