[IRE240H1] - Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (11 pages long!)

• School: UTSG
• Department: Employment Relations, Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources
• Course: IRE240H1
• Professor: Dionne Pohler

Document Summary

Developed with practical intention to solve the labour problem in a particular context, place, and time; remains relevant today (godard, 2011 chapters 2,4) Labour is human or labour is not a commodity . Labour is a factor input into production, but inseparable from human beings. Labour markets behave differently from standard commodity markets. The treatment of labour carries higher moral significance, and thus merits greater consideration and protection, than other factor inputs (ie. land, capital, technology) Multidisciplinary approach (interdisciplinary approach: incorporate insights of different aspects (ie. sociology, psychology, economics, politics, anthropology) to solution to solve different problems in organizations) Ways people behave as an outcome of the government of organization. Union plays a role in the changing nature of work. How people are able to govern employment relationships that help people who don"t have a third party to consult with. The study of the relations between labour and management (godard, 2011: 3)