| CODE | CLS3104 | ||||||||||||
| TITLE | Employee Involvement and Participation | ||||||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 03 - Years 2, 3, 4 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 6 | ||||||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 4 | ||||||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Centre for Labour Studies | ||||||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This unit starts with a historical appraisal of employee involvement and participation both in Malta and abroad. Human resource management practice and participation models are evaluated. Among others, the various types of decision making in organisations are discussed. Finally, the industrial structures and legal framework within which employee involvement takes place are explored. Study-unit Aims The study unit will investigate employee involvement practices, and relate these to the existing academic literature on the subject. The study unit will explore high performance work practices and document strategies to harness employee potential and integrate them into business strategy, whilst aligning employees' interests with those of their organisation. Learning Outcomes 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - identify the different types of decision making models used in organisations - distinguish among the different possible types of employee involvement - explain the challenges that are associated with involvement - describe the major principles of empowerment 2. Skills (including transferable [generic] skills): By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - assess human resource decision making from a systemic, strategic -perspective - evaluate the application of different methods of organisational decision making - apply the salient laws relating to employee involvement at the place of work - assess the utility of low level and high level employee involvement Main Text/s and any supplementary readings Main texts: - Hyman, J. and Mason, B. (1995). Managing Employee Involvement and Participation. USA: Sage - Wynder, M. (2009) Employee Involvement in Continuous Improvement: An Experimental Investigation; Germany: Lambert Academic Publishing |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture and Independent Study | ||||||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Godfrey Baldacchino Manwel Debono |
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