HRM307 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Nonunion, The Employer, National Labor Relations Board

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Human Resources Management
• Course: HRM307
• Professor: Mark Gernon

Document Summary

Captures all the human resource needs of an organization: attraction, retention, performance management, compensation, training, health and safety. Industrial relations: is defined as a broad field of study encompassing employment in both union and non-union organizations. Employee relations: often used to describe non-unionized human resources work versus labour relations work uw uses staff relations, faculty relations, and labour relations. Labour relations: the study of all aspects of the union-management relationship including the establishment of union bargaining rights, the negotiation process, and the administration of a collective agreement. Collective bargaining: refers to all aspects of the interaction and communication in a unionized environment, not just the negotiation of a collective agreement. Some non-union employers attempt to keep up with unionized workplaces: society, unions become involved in political and social issues that affect the public. Dunlop industrial relations model: actors, specialized government agencies (legislation/policies, shared ideology, hierarchy of managers (represents employers / business interests, contexts, market / technical / distribution of power.