Newcastle University

Aims

1) provide students with a broad critical understanding of the variety of responses being made by employers, management, trade unions and the state in different national settings

2) provide an opportunity for students to gain an in-depth knowledge of developments and issues in a particular regional or national setting.

3) equip students with frameworks which will enable them to engage in comparative analysis of HR/employment relations systems

Original Summary:
The module aims to provide students with an understanding of developments and issues in HRM in a variety of national contexts. Students are provided with analytical frameworks which will enable them to engage in the comparative analysis of HRM and to develop in depth knowledge of approaches to HRM in a particular national context.

Outline Of Syllabus

1. Perspectives on comparative HRM - an introduction.
2. Individual case study - HRM in Japan.
3. Germany.
4. USA.
5. South Africa.
6. Eastern Europe in Transition - Russia and the Czech Republic.

Teaching Rationale And Relationship

- Lectures provide basic information which is then used to work through country specific case studies
- Principles will be illustrated and developed by case-study-based seminars.

Assessment Rationale And Relationship

The assessment involves a 3,000 word case study that will provide the students with the opportunity to critically analyse issues related to the subject matter.



Reassessment will involve a 3000 word case study that will provide students, with the opportunity to critically analyse issues related to the subject matter.