In this subject students will focus on contemporary human resource management and employee relations issues within the context of developing high performance work systems. Students will critically investigate the importance and impact of high performance work systems on employee relations, as well as trade union and non-trade union approaches. Within a high performance work systems framework, students will analyse the importance of work-family balance, labour market flexibility, precarious forms of employment, job security, pay-for-performance and the feminisation of work. Students will examine high performance work systems from labour process theory and critical perspectives. Both private and public sector cases will be used to demonstrate the practice and challenges of building high performance work systems.

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