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Learning outcomes
The learner will:
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Assessment criteria
The learner can:
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1 Understand the nature and context of employment relations.
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1.1 Analyse the indeterminate nature of employment relations.
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1.2 Compare and contrast unitarist and pluralist approaches to employment relations.
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1.3 Assess a range of factors which impact on employment relations.
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2 Know about employment relations legislation.
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2.1 Describe and critique the essential features of the contract of employment.
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2.2 Identify and analyse the main sources of UK and EU employment relations law-making.
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2.3 Explain the main developments in individual employment law.
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2.4 Assess and advise on the purpose and scope of statutory trade union recognition.
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3 Understand contemporary developments in employee involvement and participation.
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3.1 Explain the differences in employee involvement, participation and partnership.
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3.2 Compare and contrast union and non-union forms of employee representation.
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3.3 Assess the link between employee voice and organisation performance.
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4 Know about different forms of conflict behaviour and dispute resolution.
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4.1 Distinguish between conflict and misbehaviour, and between official and unofficial industrial action.
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4.2 Assess contemporary trends in the type of conflict and industrial sanctions.
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4.3 Explain what is required to advise, coach and guide line managers in the skills for effective grievance- and dispute-handling procedures.
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4.4 Distinguish between third-party conciliation, mediation and arbitration.
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