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Stage 3, optional (compulsory for Human Resource Management pathway)
Topics of work attitudes, identity at work, issues of work design including teamwork, contemporary communication at work, managing well-being at work and work-life balance, and individual career management are examined in this course.
The psychological and behavioral aspects, contemporary theory and empirical studies of these topics are analyzed to provide an overview of practice and potential interventions. New employment practices adopted by established and emerging multinational firms will also be compared and assessed through case studies.
Topics covered
- Introduction
- Attitudes
- Identity at work
- Communication at work
- Teamwork and virtual teams
- Job design and remote work
- Stress at work
- Work-life balance
- Careers 1 and careers 2
Globalization:
- Capitalism, nations, and globalization
- The nature of work, labor process theory, and globalization
- Employment relations – from Fordism to neo-liberalism, waged labor to entrepreneurs
- Globalization and labor conflict
- Fairtrade, value chains and problems of regulation along value chains
- New mass service jobs – call centers, distribution centers, and retail work
- Creative labor – managing creative labor
- Digital work and digital workers – the web as a globalized space for sourcing workers
- International mobility - managers with no nationality?
- Professionals and international employment agencies
Learning outcomes
- Critically assess a variety of contemporary issues with respect to individual and group behavior at work
- Critically evaluate a range of theoretical approaches to understanding individual and group processes
- Critically evaluate and utilize different methods through which our knowledge and understanding of these topics may be developed
- Critically assess comparative changes in work organization and employment relations in the established and emerging economies
- Critically assess the implications of a more integrated global labor market to work organization, employment relations, and national labor market institutions
- Critically evaluate the research methods and approaches in the study of the globalisation of work
Assessment
- Report [2500 words] (40%)
- Three-hour written examination (60%)
Topics of work attitudes, identity at work, issues of work design including teamwork, contemporary communication at work, managing well-being at work and work-life balance, and individual career management are examined in this course.
The psychological and behavioral aspects, contemporary theory and empirical studies of these topics are analyzed to provide an overview of practice and potential interventions. New employment practices adopted by established and emerging multinational firms will also be compared and assessed through case studies.
Topics covered
- Introduction
- Attitudes
- Identity at work
- Communication at work
- Teamwork and virtual teams
- Job design and remote work
- Stress at work
- Work-life balance
- Careers 1 and careers 2
Globalization:
- Capitalism, nations, and globalization
- The nature of work, labor process theory, and globalization
- Employment relations – from Fordism to neo-liberalism, waged labor to entrepreneurs
- Globalization and labor conflict
- Fairtrade, value chains and problems of regulation along value chains
- New mass service jobs – call centers, distribution centers, and retail work
- Creative labor – managing creative labor
- Digital work and digital workers – the web as a globalized space for sourcing workers
- International mobility - managers with no nationality?
- Professionals and international employment agencies
Learning outcomes
- Critically assess a variety of contemporary issues with respect to individual and group behavior at work
- Critically evaluate a range of theoretical approaches to understanding individual and group processes
- Critically evaluate and utilize different methods through which our knowledge and understanding of these topics may be developed
- Critically assess comparative changes in work organization and employment relations in the established and emerging economies
- Critically assess the implications of a more integrated global labor market to work organization, employment relations, and national labor market institutions
- Critically evaluate the research methods and approaches in the study of the globalisation of work
Assessment
- Report [2500 words] (40%)
- Three-hour written examination (60%)