MGMT551

Describe how and why workers organize labor unions in the U.S. private sector.

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.

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.

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.

Assess 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.