Assignment Question
Globalisation has had a positive impact on employee relations.
Critically discuss this statement.
Word Limit: 3500
Section 1. Introduction to Employee Relations and the Employment Relationship
Section 2: Key actors and institutional influences in the employment relationship
Section 3: The national context of employment relations: The UK employment system
Section 4: The national context of employment relations: Alternative employment systems
Section 5: ER in practice: concepts and issues/themes
Section 6: Industrial Action: Theories, Forms and Trends
Section 7: Pattern and trends in contemporary Employee Relations
Section 8: Globalisation and Employee Relations
Section 9: Exploring the international regulatory context of the Employment Relationship
Section 10: Employee relations and the role of ideology
Section 11: New actors and new strategies in the Employment Relationship
Section 12: The Employee Relationship into the 21st century
Readings:
Chapter 1 'Employee Relations' in The Dynamics of Employee Relations
Chapter 2 'The Theory of Employee Relations' in The Dynamics of Employee Relations
The transition to motherhood and part-time working: mutuality and incongruence in the psychological contracts existing between managers and employees Soft and Hard Models of Human Resource Management: A Reappraisal
Chapter 4 'Management:Caught Between Competing Views of the Organization' in Industrial Relations: Theory and Practice
Chapter 5 'State, Capital and Labour Relations in Crisis'
Chapter 6 'Trade Unions: Power and Influence in a Changed Context' Organizational reactions to UK age discrimination legislation
Chapter 7 'Collective bargaining and joint regulation' in The Dynamics of Employee Relations
Chapter 10 'The dynamics of industrial conflict' in The Dynamics of Employee Relations To Strike, to Serve? Industrial Action at British Airways. British Airways plc v Unite the Union (Nos 1 and 2) Government Policy and Employment Relations (Chapter 4) 'Partnership' and new industrial relations in a risk society: an age of shotgun weddings and marriages of convenience?
Chapter 2 'Theoretical perspectives on comparative employment relations' in Comparative employment relations in the global economy
Chapter 10 'The United Kingdom' in Comparative employment relations in the global economy
Cleared for Take-off? Management-Labour Partnership in the European Civil Aviation Industry Is There a Third Way for Industrial Relations?
Chapter 4 'Collective representation at work: institutions and dynamics' in Comparative employment relations in the global economy
Labour struggles against mass redundancies in France: understanding direct action
Chapter 5 'The experience of work in comparative perspective' in Comparative employment relations in the global economy
Chapter 3 'Individual employee rights at work' in Comparative employment relations in the global economy
Chapter 3 'British Industrial Relations: The European Dimension' in Industrial relations: theory and practice
Reconstruction amid deconstruction: or why we need more of the social in European social models
Chapter 2 'British Industrial Relations: Between Security and Flexibility' in Industrial relations: theory and practice
Lean and mean in the civil service: the case of processing in HMRC
Doing the right thing? HRM and the angry knowledge worker
Chapters 1 & 3
'India calling to the far away towns': the call centrelabour process and globalization
Chapters 13 and 14 and Conclusion pp.293-296 from International Human Resource Management: An Employment Relations Perspective