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Unit details

  • Specialist unit
  • Level 5
  • 7 credits

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The unit is designed to encourage learners to assess and understand broader developments that influence the effective management of the employment relationship in indigenous and multinational organisations.

This unit is suitable for persons who:

  • seek to develop a career in HR management and development

  • are working in the field of HR management and development and need to extend their knowledge and skills

  • have responsibility for implementing HR policies and strategies

  • need to understand the role of HR in the wider organisational and environmental context.

Learning outcomes

On completion of this unit, learners will:

  • Understand the nature and context of employment relations.

  • Know about employment relations legislation.

  • Understand contemporary developments in employee involvement and participation.

  • Know about different forms of conflict behaviour and dispute resolution.


Learning outcomes

The learner will:

1 Understand the nature and context of employment relations.

2 Know about employment relations legislation.

3 Understand contemporary developments in employee involvement and participation.

4 Know about different forms of conflict behaviour and dispute resolution.



Assessment criteria

The learner can:

1.1 Analyse the indeterminate nature of employment relations.

1.2 Compare and contrast unitarist and pluralist approaches to employment relations.

1.3 Assess a range of factors which impact on employment relations.

2.1 Describe and critique the essential features of the contract of employment.

2.2 Identify and analyse the main sources of UK and EU employment relations lawmaking.

2.3 Explain the main developments in individual employment law.

2.4 Assess and advise on the purpose and scope of statutory trade union recognition.

3.1 Explain the differences in employee involvement, participation and partnership.

3.2 Compare and contrast union and non-union forms of employee representation.

3.3 Assess the link between employee voice and organisation performance.

4.1 Distinguish between conflict and misbehaviour, and between official and unofficial industrial action.

4.2 Assess contemporary trends in the types of conflict and industrial sanctions.

4.3 Explain what is required to advise, coach and guide line managers in the skills for effective grievance- and dispute-handling procedures.

4.4 Distinguish between third-party conciliation, mediation and arbitration.

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