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Fall 2020 | HRIR 5655 Section 060: Public Policies on Work and Pay (19461)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
Online Course
- Enrollment Requirements:
- HRIR 3021 Or HRIR 3021H OR IBUS 3021
- Meets With:
PA 5431 Section 001
- Times and Locations:
- Enrollment Status:
Open (11 of 15 seats filled)
- 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 Notes:
- Remote: All instruction will be fully online with set meeting patterns. Students must be online at the scheduled days and times. In addition, instructors may provide supplemental content that students can engage with any time or within a certain time frame. The instructors might be available for limited in-person interactions. However, in-person interactions will be optional if available. Students will have a very similar experience whether on campus or off campus.
- 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:
- Class Participation and homework 10%
In-Class exam 40%
Class debates on a labor policy topic 20%
Essay/Exam on Workplace governance 30%
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/19461/1209
- Past Syllabi:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/syllabi/klein002_HRIR5655_Spring2017.pdf (Spring 2017)
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 21 October 2017
ClassInfo Links - Fall 2020 Human Resources/Indus Rel Classes Taught by Morris Kleiner