Employee and Labor Relations

Catalog description

This course offers students an understanding of interactions between the organization and its employees regarding the terms and conditions of employment from two different functional areas, i.e., employee relations and labor relations. Students will learn labor relations concepts like approaches to union-organization relations, recognizing the rights and responsibilities of union management, the bargaining process along with its outcomes, causes and methods of preventing and addressing strikes, boycotts, and work stoppages, and the administration of labor agreements. The other employee relations concepts covered in this course are developing and implementing workplace policies, handbooks, and codes of conduct, ensuring positive employee organization relationships, understanding the methods organizations use to monitor and address morale, performance, and retention, and, balancing the operational needs of the organization with the well being of the individual employee. Components: Class Prereqs/Coreqs: P: BUSADMIN 3030 Typically Offered: Based on Student Demand