This course offers you a multidisciplinary, theoretical and practical introduction to some key concepts, processes, practices and debates associated with employment relationships in Pakistan. In addition, we examine the organizational, institutional and market contexts that affect employment relations in any industrial society. By the end of the course, you should have an understanding of the key participants in any industrial relations system - workers, employers, trade unions, employer organizations and the and critical approach, our discussions will always seek to assess how this wider context affects the perennial concerns of managers and employees in their day-to-day activities in the workplace. Furthermore, this course is also oriented towards discussing questions that have an immediate resonance in current public debates about the workplace to increase your ability to engage knowledgably with these discussions as a manager, employee and/or citizen.

Learning Outcomes

The basic learning outcomes will be to understand:                                                                                                                        

• Be aware of the present state of Industrial relations.
• Be acquainted with the concepts, principles and issues connected with trade unions, collective bargaining, workers participation, grievance redressal, and employee discipline and dispute resolution.
• Understand the various processes and procedures of handling Employee Relations.