HRM 3420 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: System Model, Organizational Commitment, Collective Agreement

• School: York University
• Department: Human Resources Management
• Course: HRM 3420
• Professor: Ken Mc Bey

Document Summary

Union: a group of workers, recognized by the law & certified by provincial labour relations boards & empowered by them to collectively bargain terms of employment with their employer. Industrial relations: study of employment relationships and issues in unionized workplaces. Accepts that employees have different interests from their employers and focuses on how employees ban together to protect their interests. Labour relations: study of employment relationships and issues between groups. Represents employees and management (also known as management relations) Employers focus on efficiency while unions focus on equity. Collective agreement: document stating terms and conditions of employment in a unionized workplace. Employers and unions negotiate this collective agreement every 2 years. Human resource management: examines employment relationship between employers and individual employees. Differences between labour relations & human resource management: Labour relations: believes there are conflicts between employees and management. Focuses on rules, dispute resolutions and voice in the workplace.