Employee and Labor Relations

General

Prefix

MGMT

Course Number

551

Course Level

Graduate

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.