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Introductory Seminar in Labor and Employment Relations (3)
Critical challenges facing workers, employers, labor organizations, and the public with regard to work and employee representation.
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38:578:501
Research Methods in Labor and Employment Relations (3)
Definition of a research question; literature reviews; effective research techniques; case-study and survey research methods. Basic statistical skills, data analysis, and presentation.
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38:578:502
Writing in Employment Relations (3)
Creation of articulate, persuasive written documents of the type needed in professional positions in employment relations; construction of an argument; intensive, individualized instruction; ESL students particularly welcome.
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Problem-Solving Tools at Work (3)
Applied analytical and statistical tools for solving problems at work,
surveying employees, and maintaining quality. Projects are
individual/group and spreadsheet-intensive.
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38:578:504
Leadership in Work Organizations (3)
Leadership theory and its application to work organizations, including
unions, nonprofits, and businesses. Leadership of small groups and
large organizations; leadership diversity and development.
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38:578:505
Negotiation (3)
Negotiation strategy and tactics including positional, interest-based, and other theoretical approaches; rights, power, leverage, concessions, commitment; applications include business and labor contexts; negotiation skill development.
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38:578:506
Theories of Labor and Employment Relations (3)
The historical evolution and current state of employment relations theory. Workplace democracy, the source of workplace conflict, alienation, the evolution of class, collective bargaining, and other issues are discussed from a variety of perspectives.
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38:578:507
Strategic Corporate and Industry Research (3)
Overview of methods used to investigate the competitive
situation/prognosis of an industry's employers, profitability, sales,
employment, wages, and unionization; strategic corporate research.
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38:578:508
Group Processes and Team Dynamics (3)
Micro facilitation skill development; effective group decision-making or problem-solving event design; moderator behavior allowing a group to identify and achieve its goals.
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38:578:509
American Workers and Politics (3)
The democratization of politics and the emergence of workers as citizens; the political role of workers in contemporary U.S. society. The political ideology of American labor and its impact on electoral politics, voting patterns, and political participation.
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38:578:510
The Inclusive Workplace (3)
Fostering an inclusive workplace; issues related to race, ethnicity, age, gender, religion, sexual orientation, disability, and other aspects of diversity in work organizations.
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38:578:511
Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace (3)
Theory of emotional intelligence and its effects on employee performance and organizational success; research on the development of emotional intelligence; self-awareness and self-development.
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38:578:512
Self-Development for Professional Success (3)
How employees can advance their careers given the changing nature of work and organizations; skill assessment/development, career progression, and work/life balance; intergenerational, gender, and racial/ethnic issues.
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38:578:513
Enforcing Worker Rights (3)
Labor standards enforcement in theory and practice, wages, hours,
overtime, and health/safety violations; diverse strategies for improved
enforcement, including involving worker organizations.
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38:578:515
Conflict Resolution in the Workplace (3)
Theories of workplace conflict. Critical review and analysis of dispute resolution techniques in union and nonunion workplaces.
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38:578:520
Benefits and Social Insurance (3)
Overview of benefits with a focus on social insurance systems, health insurance, and pensions. Emphasis on public policy issues of importance to both unions and employers.
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38:578:521
Immigration Law
Contemporary immigration law in the U.S.; employer compliance issues; employee rights; immigrant employee representation and related policy debates.
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38:578:525
Public Sector Employment Issues (3)
Scope and nature of public employment; organizations of public employees; problems and issues of federal, state, county, and municipal employees; special problems of particular groups; and emerging patterns of future development.
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38:578:526
Immigration, Public Policy, and Worker Rights (3)
The role of immigrant labor in contemporary society and accompanying public policy debates. Theories of migration, history of migration and immigration policy in the United States; labor market dynamics in immigrant-dominated industries. Existing employment and labor rights of immigrant workers. Community, labor, and immigrant organizations' efforts to improve wages, working conditions, and immigration policy.
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38:578:527
Economics and Public Policy in a Global Context (3)
Economic policy options around the globe; governments and markets;
macro- and micro-level approaches; fiscal and monetary policies;
competition and social protection: trade; labor; income inequality.
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38:578:528
Employment Relations in Sports (3)
Using a global perspective across different sports and related
businesses, examination of union-management relations; individual
talent; diversity; and safety-health issues.
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38:587:530
Globalization, Corporate Restructuring, and Employment (3)
Study of the impact of globalization and corporate restructuring on individuals, communities, jobs, work systems, organizations, and the economy.
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38:578:535
Women and Global Labor Movements (3)
How women are organizing worldwide for gender justice and an improved
quality of life; how changing labor movements are addressing gender
issues.
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38:578:538
Financial Analysis and Corporate Governance (3)
Corporate governance issues; financial statement analysis; and cost accounting for collective bargaining and workplace management.
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HR Decision-Making: Financial Decisions (3)
Financial analysis in the HR context. Cost analysis of HR and HR programs. Cost/benefit analysis, organizational finance issues, and HRM.
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38:578:541
Women and Work (3)
An analysis of women's experiences and status in a range of work settings; an evaluation of legal, institutional, and public policy responses to issues such as the segregation of work by race and gender, pay equity, the feminization of poverty, sexual harassment, and the restructuring of work and family roles.
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HR Decision-Making: Data-Based Decisions (3)
This course addresses research design methodology and basic statistics through regression analysis.
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Organizational Leadership and Change Management (3)
Theoretical and practical issues in organization change, including the
rationale for change; why change succeeds or fails; effective leadership
of change; and ethical concerns.
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38:578:544
Creating and Sustaining a Learning Organization (3)
Processes through which organizations learn or fail to learn; designing
methods of education, training, and development that encourage
organizational learning; theories of organizational and managerial
cognition.
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38:578:545
Disability, Work, and Society (3)
The relationship of disability to income, work, politics, law, popular culture, and the built environment; lessons for all disadvantaged groups seeking social change.
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38:578:550
Labor Law (3)
The statutes and case law that create the framework for private-sector labor management relations, with special attention to current workplace developments and the public policy debates that continue to reshape American labor law.
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38:578:551
Identity and Discrimination at Work and in the U.S. Labor Market (3)
Social construction of identity and the consequences for contemporary diversity outcomes; intersectionality of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and other forms of identity.
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38:578:555
Globalization and the Future of Employment (3)
Changes in the global economy and their effects on living standards, job opportunities, and the bargaining power of American workers and their unions. Role of international labor organizations, transnational corporations, and global financial institutions in global economic change. Strategies for dealing with globalization.
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38:578:556
Organizational Design and Structure (3)
Considers diverse modes of involving employee in decision-making and reorganizing work for flexibility, service, and better use of advanced technology. Assess options, consequences, and the responses of organized workers.
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38:578:557
Trends and Problems in the Nonunion Workplace (3)
An overview of the nonunion workplace encompassing both research and practice; covers surveys of employee attitudes, key issues, alternative vehicles of employee voice, conflict, and the use of new workplace practices.
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38:578:558
Seminar in Workplace Democratization (3)
Diverse models of workplace democratization on the job and at the strategic policy level, including joint governance, employee involvement, collective bargaining, employee ownership, worker cooperatives, and self-management.
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38:578:559
Organizing for Social Change (3)
Hands-on look at how people can take action together by creating
organizations; recruiting members; analyzing and building power;
designing campaigns; and developing winning strategies.
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38:578:560
Collective Bargaining and Worker Representation (3)
Unions, collective bargaining, and alternative forms of worker representation in the United States. Overview of both conventional forms of union membership, negotiations, labor law, dispute resolution, and emerging representation and advocacy strategies.
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38:578:562
Global Employment Relations Today (3)
Comparison of employment relations systems in selected countries; how labor movements outside the U.S. marshal political and economic resources to represent worker's interests.
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38:578:563
New Directions in Collective Bargaining (3)
Departures from traditional patterns of collective bargaining and labor-management relationships. Causal factors that are giving rise to innovative practices. The current debate over the future of collective bargaining. Models for expanding the scope of bargainable issues.
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38:533:565
Economics and Demographics of Labor Markets (3)
Covers the changing nature of the workforce, including diversity characteristics and attitudinal shifts. Focus on human resource management tracking and gaining competitive advantage though judicious use of change.
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Public Sector Collective Bargaining (3)
The development of public sector bargaining rights and the role of unions in the public sector. The course will analyze state and federal laws, dispute resolution procedures, and political initiatives, with a special emphasis on New Jersey.
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Employment Law (3)
Principles of law covering the employment relationship. Some legal issues may also be covered in HR application courses.
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Work and Social Change (3)
Changes in the workforce, how economic and social changes are reshaping categories of employees, their organizations and movements, and their needs and desires. Uses both class and social movement perspectives to examine many types of employees.
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38:578:567
Shaping the Future of Work and the Employment Relationship (3)
Artificial intelligence, platforms, and other ongoing changes affecting the nature, availability, and rewards for work. Emerging alternatives to traditional employment. Alternative forms of representation and public policies for ameliorating related social problems.
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38:578:569
Mediation Processes and Techniques
Theory and practice of mediation in labor disputes, civil litigation and employment discrimination. Mediator qualification and ethics practices; cultural and inclusion issues. Comparison to arbitration, fact finding, conciliation, and negotiation.
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Interest Dispute Settlement (3)
The practice and policy implications of fact-finding, mediation, and interest arbitration in the public sector.
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Employment Arbitration Today (3)
Arbitration and grievance processes in contemporary U.S. workplaces with and without union representation. Includes an analysis of ongoing controversial public policy & legal issues.
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Structure and Government of American Unions (3)
Patterns of union administration on local, intermediate, and national levels; effect of structure on the collective bargaining process; issues of internal democracy; and membership participation in union affairs.
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38:578:598,599
Individual Studies in Labor and Employment Relations (BA,BA)
Individually directed study by a student under the direction of an individual faculty member.
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38:578:604
Creating and Administering Surveys (3)
Issues for online, mail, telephone, and in-person surveys given their intended use. Samples; item construction; scaling; measurement validity and reliability; improving response rates; ethical research.
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Action Research (3)
Action research involves collaboration between organization members and outside experts in a process of improving organizational effectiveness combining insider knowledge with theory and data-driven research. Students will learn the basic processes of designing and implementing a social system change intervention using participatory methods.
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Topics (3,3,3,3)
Selected timely topics in employment relations; particular topics to be announced.
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Labor/Employment History (3)
The changing nature of work and its organization; history of labor organizations and labor movements; historical situation of major groups of nonrepresented employees; and the impact of changing government policies on employees, employers, and labor relations.
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38:578:615-617
Issues in Labor and Employment Relations (1,1,1)
Selected, timely topics in employment relations; particular topic to be announced.
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38:578:650-655
Selected Issues in Labor and Employment Relations (1,1,1,1,1,1)
Contemporary issues in labor and employment relations; particular topics to be announced.
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38:578:666
Asian American Workers in a Global Context (3)
Connections between race, labor, and
political belonging for the Asian American community; overview of
interdisciplinary research regarding political representation, forms of
structural exclusion, the politics of national belonging, and worker resistance.
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38:578:690
Internship in Labor and Employment Relations (BA)
Internship in a labor or community organization addressing employment issues; internship in a public- or private-sector management position dealing with labor and employment issues; or other supervised work experience related to the field.
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38:578:694
Practicum in Organization Change (BA)
Research or practice in a real work setting undergoing restructuring or organization change, with particular attention to the consequences for employees and the ways in which their interests can be represented.
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38:578:695
Practicum in Adult Noncredit Education or Training (BA)
Research or practice in labor education, management education, or joint extension programming; research or practice in workplace training or continuous learning programs.
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Research in Labor and Employment Relations (BA,BA)
Supervised research under the direction of an individual faculty member.
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