Catalog 2016-2017 
    
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Catalog 2016-2017 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

BUHR 240 Employee and Labor Relations

3 credits
This course examines how employee relations can create a positive organizational culture. Students also explore facets of the labor relations process: collective representation, union organization, bargaining, and negotiations.

Quarters Offered: Summer

Global Outcome(s)
This course teaches to the global outcome of Communication.

Student Outcomes/Competencies:
Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

  • Describe the nature of management/employee relations and human resource’s role in that relationship
  • Distinguish between approaches to disciplinary actions and the various types of alternative dispute resolution procedures in a union or non-union setting
  • Identify the principal state and federal laws that provide the framework for employee and labor relations
  • Describe facets of the labor relations processes such as collective representation, union organization, bargaining, and negotiations
  • Explain how employee relations can create a positive organizational culture
  • Respond appropriately to information about employee and labor relations conveyed in verbal, non-verbal, written, and symbolic ways