Spring 2017  |  HRIR 5655 Section 060: Public Policies on Work and Pay (65904)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Meets With:
PA 5431 Section 001
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/17/2017 - 05/05/2017
Tue 06:00PM - 08:45PM
UMTC, West Bank
Hubert H Humphrey Center 184
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Analysis of public policies regarding employment, unions, labor markets. Public programs affecting wages, unemployment, training, worker mobility, security, quality of work life. Policy implications of changing nature of work. prereq: HRIR MA student must register A-F, ECON 1101, [CSOM or HRD junior or senior or dept consent]
Class Description:
The purpose of this course is to examine and analyze how public policies affecting the employment relationship can be developed and evaluated. The major methods of analysis used are cost/benefit techniques and economic methods. Lessons from other countries are integrated throughout the course. The latter part of the course is devoted to the issue of who should govern the workplace, with a special emphasis on proposals for potential changes in U.S. public policy on labor and industrial relations in both the public and private sector.
Grading:
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Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/65904/1173
Syllabus:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/syllabi/klein002_HRIR5655_Spring2017.pdf
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
14 November 2016

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