MHR 522- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 64 pages long!)

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Human Resources
• Course: MHR 522
• Professor: Tingting Zhang

Document Summary

What is industrial relations: everything and anything to do with work and employment, labour economics & policy, organizational behaviour, human resource management, labour relations. Human resources: the study of the employment relationship between individual employees and their employer. The study of employment relationships and issues between groups of employees (usually in unions) and management; aka union-management relations: employment relations. The study of the employment relationship between employers and individual employees, usually in non-union settings. Agreed on the stakeholders involved in the process or mechanism. Who is labour: workers + (cid:449)ithout (cid:862)substa(cid:374)ti(cid:448)e(cid:863) authority, substantive: Someone engaged in his or her own business: dependent contractor. Someone who appears to be an independent contractor, but is economically dependent. Independent contractor on a single organization: fourfold test. Determines if an individual is an employee by considering: control, ownership of tools, opportunity for profit, risk of loss.