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Department of European Studies & Modern Languages, Unit Catalogue 2009/10


XX20087: German comparative employee relations

Click here for further information Credits: 6
Click here for further information Level: Intermediate
Click here for further information Period: Semester 1
Click here for further information Assessment: CW 33%, EX 67%
Click here for further informationSupplementary Assessment: Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
Click here for further information Requisites: Before taking this unit you must take MN10079
Description:
Aims & Learning Objectives:
a) To describe and analyse the changing features of employee relations in the UK. This introduction to the subject provides the basis for comparative work later in the course. b) To introduce students to the specific legal, institutional and cultural dimensions of industrial relations in Germany. Comparisons with the UK will serve to highlight the main characteristics of the German situation and to sensitise students to the reasons behind the complex pattern of relations existing between the "social partners" as represented by state, unions, employers and employees.

Content:
Employee relations: an introduction; Trade Unions; Employers and Managers; Industrial Conflict; State and the Law.
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