Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Power, Politics, and Influence at Work
The online course illustrated the role of agency and power in relation to questions of worker voice, labour market change, and the future of work. The course presented frameworks of power, notions of collective solidarity and the politics of work and employment studies. It developed the participant’s analytical reasoning in relation to labour market inequalities, new technologies at work, and employment regulation and rights.
5 weeks, 4 hours per week
Prof. Tony Dundon and Prof. Miguel Martinez Lucio
Professor of HRM and Employment Relations at the University of Limerick and University of Manchester, Professor of International HRM and Comparative Industrial Relations
The University of Manchester
Dr Emma Hughes and Roger Walden
Lecturer in Human Resource Management at the University of Liverpool, Honorary Lecturer in Labour and Employment Law
The University of Manchester
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Explain the dimensions of work and employment studies as a discrete field of study
- Describe different models of power that affect employment conditions
- Assess the way Government (e.g. the State) regulate employment equalities
- Discuss the way new technologies can influence employment relationships and work conditions
- Evaluate different systems for worker voice
- Debate different developments and scenarios that can affect the future of work
Syllabus
- Work and employment relations
- Frameworks of power
- Globalisation
- Employment regulation
- New technology
- Trade unions and worker voice
- Future of work debates
Issued on 19th April 2022
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