Catalog Description: This course is a survey course intended to present the student with
an overview on Labor Relations, Labor Relations Practices and Processes, and the many issues
pertaining to this form of organized workplace. That is, a workplace in which a union represents
the interests of an employee. In contrast, this course will also address the issues of a
non-union workplace, the growing number of safeguards for nonunion employees, and the various
employment laws pertaining to the non-union workplace environment.
The Regulatory Environment of Human Resource Management
South-Western (Thomson Learning), 2001/2002
Authors: Robinson, Franklin, and Wayland ISBN: 0030258677
Course Objectives:
Upon the successful completion of this course, you should be able to:
Understand the Historical, Legal and Organizing Issues pertaining to Labor Relations.
Understand the Historical and Legal Issues in Employment Law in General.
Finally, become familiar with the major federal statutes and regulations pertaining to Labor
Relations and employment practices in the American Workforce.
Structure of Course:
This self-study course is designed for students to complete at their own pace. This course will
be broken down into a series of lectures based on material that is presented in the twelve
chapters of the textbook titled The Regulatory Environment of Human Resource Management.
Each chapter of the textbook will be presented to students in an outline format. The format will
list two separate sections.
1st A SUMMARY Section. This section will highlight for the students the relevant material that
each student should understand upon completing the chapter.
2nd An ASSIGNMENT Section. This section will list the assignment for the chapter. The assignment
for each chapter will remain constant. It will state that the student must complete the chapter
evaluation/self assessment exercise.
In addition, each student will be required to submit to the instructor via e-mail a three page
paper for completion of the course. Students can select any topic from the chapters of the
textbook. The paper must be submitted in addition to the evaluations/self assessments to receive
credit for this course. The Paper need should be submitted to the instructor in 12 point font.
Finally, the paper should be double spaced.
Students may submit topics for prior approval from the instructor but it is not necessary. The
instructor suggests selecting a topic that the student found interesting while participating in
this course. Students are encouraged to be creative. This paper can be submitted at any point
in the semester to the instructor. Students do not need to wait until they complete the last
chapter in their text. This paper is graded as pass/fail.
Suggestions For This Class:
Since this course is a self-study course to be completed at one’s own pace, please note the
following:
Students have between 8-9 weeks to complete the requirements of this class. One may actually
work at their own pace and complete the course in a shorter time span. However, in order to
complete this course within the allocated time frame, students can pace themselves according to
my suggestion:
It is advisable to complete 2 chapters per week and the corresponding evaluations/self
assessment exercises for those chapters.
Students should not procrastinate in completing the evaluations/self-assessment learning
exercises. Once a student reads a chapter, the students should take the evaluation/self
assessment exercise.
Grading:
There will be no mid-term or final for this course.
After completing each chapter students will be required to complete chapter evaluations/self
assessment learning exercises. Since there are 12 chapters in the textbook, students will be
required to complete 12 evaluations/self assessment learning exercises. The evaluations will be
presented in a multiple choice format and will consist of 10 questions. Grades will be
determined by adding up the grades earned on each individual evaluation and dividing that sum by
12.
