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Employment options for years 2 & 3

Employment options for years 2 & 3. The HRM and Industrial Relations teaching group offer 6 modules: 2 second year options 4 final year options. YEAR 2 GLOBALISATION & EMPLOYMENT Damian Grimshaw & Jill Rubery. Second year course, semester 2

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Employment options for years 2 & 3

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  1. Employment options for years 2 & 3 The HRM and Industrial Relations teaching group offer 6 modules: • 2 second year options • 4 final year options

  2. YEAR 2GLOBALISATION & EMPLOYMENTDamian Grimshaw & Jill Rubery • Second year course, semester 2 • 25% coursework (group presentation and individual assignment) plus 75% exam • Introduces students to key employment issues arising from the internationalisation of economy, society and labour markets • Content: • The weakened role of the nation state? • Global production networks • Offshoring of jobs • Labour migration • Regulating labour in a global world

  3. YEAR 2Employment Relationsa.mcbride@mbs.ac.uk • Year 2, 20 credit course - Semester 1 and 6 weeks of semester 2 • Weekly 2-hour lecture and a 1-hour seminar • Learning objectives: • To understand the challenges of managing the employment relationship by: • identifying and examining factors which shape the employment relationship • critically assessing policies and practices of key ‘actors’ in the employment relationship • identifying and assessing trends in employment relations • Assessment • January exam (50%) • 2000 word essay (50%)

  4. final yearInternational HRM (IHRM), BMAN 31672 Miguel.Martinezlucio@mbs.ac.uk Semester 2, 10 credit course; 2.5 hour examination • Examines the issues and challenges associated with the internationalisation of organisations and the resulting HR strategies, policies and practices • Focuses on functions (recruitment, selection, development and compensation in MNCs), HQ-Subsidiary relations, managing international assignments, international management development, issues of diversity management, global corporate social responsibility. • Explains the developments in the international regulatory environment • 100% examination assessment

  5. Final yearGLOBALISATION & NATIONAL EMPLOYMENT SYSTEMSDamian Grimshaw &Arjan Keizer • 10 credit course, first semester, final year • 2-hour lecture plus 1-hour seminar • 25% 750-word essay plus 75% exam • Key questions: • Compares and contrasts characteristics of national models of employment • Analyses the role of regulations and other institutions in shaping employment • ‘one best way’ or divergence of employment models? • Content: • The influence of production systems and corporate governance on employment in different country contexts • Welfare regimes, family and gender • Skill systems • Balancing flexibility and regulation

  6. Final yearCOMPARATIVE INDUSTRIAL RELATIONSProf. Jeremy Waddington • 3rd year course run over semester one and five weeks of semester two with a weekly two-hour lecture and a single one hour seminar. • Central objectives: • to identify and explain national differences in industrial relations practices; • to examine the development of industrial relations practices that originate at the level of the European Union. • Covers: Britain, Germany, Sweden, France and Hungary. • Assessment: a single essay of 4,000 words delivered in late March.

  7. Final yearHuman Resource Management BMAN31430Isabel Tavora • 20 credits • Different facets of Human Resource Management • Best practice and high commitment HRM • Best fit and resource-based view • Employee voice • HRM in service work, knowledge work • Work-life balance, equal opportunities and diversity management • Essay - end of semester 1 (50% of mark). • Exam - end of semester 2 (50% of mark). • 1.5 hour lecture each week; 1 hour seminar per two weeks

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