Employee Relations
BTECH Higher National Diploma in Business
Unit Number and Title | 24. Employee Relations | Start Date | 19/09/2012 | Assignment Due Date | 15/10/2012 | Assessor Name | Ms. Debapriya Sengupta Roy |
Assignment No | 1. | Assignment Title | Understand the context of employee relations against a changing background | Assignment Brief | In this assignment students will distinguish between unitary and pluralistic perspectives with reference to employee relations, know the changes that have affected trade unionism in the last two decades and be able to explain the role of the main players in employee relations. |
Assignment Task / Description:
Question 1 (L01, Assessment Criteria 1.1)
Outline the characteristics of the unitarist and pluralist perspectives in each of these areas:
* Ideology * Conflict * Power * Processes * Legitimacy of third party involvement in the employment relationship
Question 2 (L01, Assessment Criteria 1.2)
Assess how political, technological, social, economic, and legal changes have affected employee relations in the UK in the last two decades.
Question 3 (L01, Assessment Criteria 1.3)
Explain the role of these players in employee relations:
a. Workers b. Managers c. The organisation d. Specialists e. Trade union representatives f. Government specialists g. Courts of Law
Question 4 (L01, Assessment Criteria 1.3)
After reading the Case Study and conducting some online research on Wal-Mart/Asda, their employment practices and attitudes and approach to dealing with trade unions, answer these questions:
1. On the basis of your research, would you categorise Wal-Mart’s and Asda’s approach to resisting trade union organisation as unitarist or pluralist (union substitution or suppression)? Give examples of the strategy they appear to have adopted 2. Why do Wal-Mart and Asda appear to pursue aggressive policies of union avoidance? 3. Why
Unit Number and Title | 24. Employee Relations | Start Date | 19/09/2012 | Assignment Due Date | 15/10/2012 | Assessor Name | Ms. Debapriya Sengupta Roy |
Assignment No | 1. | Assignment Title | Understand the context of employee relations against a changing background | Assignment Brief | In this assignment students will distinguish between unitary and pluralistic perspectives with reference to employee relations, know the changes that have affected trade unionism in the last two decades and be able to explain the role of the main players in employee relations. |
Assignment Task / Description:
Question 1 (L01, Assessment Criteria 1.1)
Outline the characteristics of the unitarist and pluralist perspectives in each of these areas:
* Ideology * Conflict * Power * Processes * Legitimacy of third party involvement in the employment relationship
Question 2 (L01, Assessment Criteria 1.2)
Assess how political, technological, social, economic, and legal changes have affected employee relations in the UK in the last two decades.
Question 3 (L01, Assessment Criteria 1.3)
Explain the role of these players in employee relations:
a. Workers b. Managers c. The organisation d. Specialists e. Trade union representatives f. Government specialists g. Courts of Law
Question 4 (L01, Assessment Criteria 1.3)
After reading the Case Study and conducting some online research on Wal-Mart/Asda, their employment practices and attitudes and approach to dealing with trade unions, answer these questions:
1. On the basis of your research, would you categorise Wal-Mart’s and Asda’s approach to resisting trade union organisation as unitarist or pluralist (union substitution or suppression)? Give examples of the strategy they appear to have adopted 2. Why do Wal-Mart and Asda appear to pursue aggressive policies of union avoidance? 3. Why