• Course Introduction
• What is Employment Relations?

Textbook:

• None

Course Reserves:

• Bray, M, Waring, P, Cooper, R and Macneil, J (2014) What is employment relations?, Chapter 1 in Employment Relations: Theory and Practice (3rd ed.) Sydney: McGraw-Hill.
• Bray, M, Waring, P, Cooper, R and Macneil, J (2014). The study of employment relations: Analytical tools, Chapter 2 in Employment Relations: Theory and Practice (3rd ed.). Sydney: McGraw-Hill.
• Wailes, N, Wright, C, Bamber, G and Lansbury, R (2016) Introduction: An internationally comparative approach to employment relations, Chapter 1, pp. 3-5. International and Comparative Employment Relations, (6th edn). Sydney: Allen & Unwin

Other:

• None

• Academic Integrity Statement
• Introduce Yourself
• Practice Activity
• Practice Quiz

• Values in ER

Textbook:

• None

Course Reserves:

• Bray, M, Waring, P, Cooper, R and Macneil, J (2014). The study of employment relations: Values, Chapter 3 in Employment Relations: Theory and Practice (3rd ed.). Sydney: McGraw-Hill.
• Budd, J and Bhave, D (2012), ‘Values, Ideologies, and Frames of Reference in Industrial Relations’, Chapter 5, in P. Blyton, N. Bacon, J. Fiorito and E. Heery (eds), The Sage Handbook of Industrial Relations, Sage, London.

Other:

• None

• Discussion - Exercise: Values in Action: Costco versus Walmart

• Introduction to:
  • Unions
  • Minimum wages
  • EEO
  • Temporary migrants

Textbook:

• None

Course Reserves:

• Gospel, H. (2008) ‘Trade unions in theory and practice: Perspectives from advanced industrial countries’ in J. Benson & Y. Zhu (eds), Trade Unions in Asia, Routledge, Hoboken, Chapter 2.
• Eyraud, F. & Saget, C. (2005). Introduction & Chapter 1, in The Fundamentals of Minimum Wage Fixing. Geneva: International Labour Office.
• International Labour Organization (2003). Part II, Chapter 2: ‘Policy issues and interventions’, in Time for equality at work: Global report under the follow-up to the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work. Geneva: ILO

Other:

• McGovern, P. (2007). Immigration, Labour Markets and Employment Relations: Problems and Prospects, British Journal of Industrial Relations, 45 (2), pp. 217–235.

• Quiz: Lessons 1, 2, 3

• Australia overview

Textbook:

• None

Course Reserves:

• Wright, C and Lansbury, D (2016) ‘Employment Relations in Australia’, in G. Bamber et al. (eds), International and Comparative Employment Relations, SAGE, London, 6th Edition. Chapter 5.

Other:

• None

• None

• Australia and the four ER issues

Textbook:

• None

Course Reserves:

• Rees, N., Lindsay, K. & Rice, S. (2008) Australian Anti-Discrimination Law, Federation Press, Sydney, Chapter 1, pages 1-8.
• Crock, M, Howe, S and McCallum, R (2014), ‘Conflicted Priorities? Enforcing Fairness for Temporary Migrant Workers in Australia’, in C. Costello and M. Freedland (eds) Migrants at Work: Immigration and Vulnerability in Labour Law, Oxford University Press, Oxford. Chapter 22.

Other:

• None

• Quiz: Lessons 4,5

• USA overview

Textbook:

• Friedman

Course Reserves:

• None

Other:

• None

• PBL1

• The USA and the four ER issues

Textbook:

• None

Course Reserves:

• Ivancevich, J (2008) Equal Employment Opportunity: Legal Aspects of HRM. Chapter 3, Human Resource Management (11th ed). Boston, McGraw-Hill Irwin.

Other:

• Kaufman, B (2010) Institutional Economics and the Minimum Wage: Broadening the Theoretical and Policy Debate, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 63 (3), April, pp. 427- 53.

• Quiz: Lessons 6, 7

• China overview

Textbook:

• Liu

Course Reserves:

• None

Other:

• None

• Discussion - Exercise: The minimum wage in China

• China and the four ER issues

Textbook:

• None

Course Reserves:

• None

Other:

• Roberts, C (2012) ‘Far from a Harmonious Society: Employment Discrimination in China’, Santa Clara Law Review, 32: 1531-1560

• Quiz: Lessons 8, 9

• Germany overview

Textbook:

• Behrens

Course Reserves:

• None

Other:

• None

• Discussion - Exercise: Strategies to address union decline in Germany

• Germany and the four ER issues

Textbook:

• None

Course Reserves:

• None

Other:

• None

• Quiz: Lessons 10, 11

• Saudi Arabia overview

Textbook:

• None

Course Reserves:

• Mellahi, K. (2006) ‘Human resource management in Saudi Arabia’ in P. Budhwar & K. Mellahi (eds), Managing Human Resources in the Middle East, Routledge, Hoboken. Chapter 6.

Other:

• None

• None

• Saudi Arabia and the four ER issues

Textbook:

• None

Course Reserves:

• None

Other:

• McCormack, S, Larsen, J and Husn, H 2015, ‘The Other Migrant Crisis’ Policy Research Report, International Organization for Migration, Geneva.
• Murray, H 2012, 'Hope for Reform Springs Eternal: How the Sponsorship System, Domestic Laws and Traditional Customs Fail to Protect Migrant Domestic Workers in GCC Countries' Cornell International Law Journal 45(2).

• Quiz: Lessons 12, 13

• Globalization and Employment Relations

Textbook:

• Kuruvilla, S and Lakhani, T. Chapter 20.
• Fichter, Chapter 21.

Course Reserves:

• None

Other:

• Yu, X (2008) ‘Impacts of Corporate Code of Conduct on Labor Standards: A Case Study of Reebok’s Athletic Footwear Supplier Factory in China’, Journal of Business Ethics, 81, 513-529

• Discussion - Exercise: Globalization and regulation
• Quiz: Lesson 14
• Final Paper - PBL2

• International Agencies

Textbook:

• Ewing, Chapter 23.

Course Reserves:

• None

Other:

• Hughes, S. (2005). The International Labour Organisation, New Political Economy, 10 (3), pp. 413-25.

• Discussion - Exercise: The ILO and ER
• Quiz: Lesson 15