Labour Relation Management

Labour Relation Management

Course Facilitator:  Hazel Berrard (BA, MBA, DBA 2012 Switzerland

Welcome to the session on labour relations. 

Course Description
The course discusses practical application of basic skills required to manage either in unionized workplaces or in workplaces that might be faced with a certification application. the course relies on Lectures, readings, simulations, and assignments  to acquaint the student with the structure and functioning of the industrial relations system, basic employment law concepts, the union certification process, negotiation and administration of collective agreements, strikes and dispute resolution, and industrial relations in an international context. In addition, the course  reviews how the industrial relations system works in general, as well as specific areas such as the future of unions in comparisons with the industrial relation systems of other countries, relationships with human resource management models, various models of dispute resolution, issues in labor-management cooperation, and differences and similarities between public and private sector industrial relations. 

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of the course students will:

•  Describe and analyse  the framework of industrial relations in Ghana and compare it with international labour relations framework;     
•  Critically analyse and evaluate the key processes of industrial relations at the workplace level and their relationships to the institutions;     
•  Critically discuss, analyse and evaluate the current and emerging industrial relations trends and debate their impact on the parties, processes and rules of  Ghanaian  industrial relations; and     
• Persuasively advocate their recommendations in both written and oral form to a variety of specialist and non-specialist audiences.  

Assessment