02533 - Industrial Relations

Academic Year 2017/2018

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Business Administration (cod. 8871)

Learning outcomes

 

Course contents

Industrial relations - I

Causes and historical context

Distinguishing elements

Development between the 1960s and ‘70s

Outlook

Industrial relations – II

Legislation

Court decisions

Collective autonomy

Trade Union – I

Organization

Representative system

Operational features

Trade Union – II

Pluralism

Financing resources

Action

Trade Union – III

Communication

CAF - Centres of fiscal assistance

RSU - Workplace Trade Union representatives

Employers' organizations

Employer associations

Confindustria - Industry Trade Group

Cooperation

Commerce, Food and Agriculture

Collective bargaining – I

Values and interests

Methodology

Practice on lifelike instances

Collective bargaining – II

Social protocols and trilateral agreements

Inter-confederation level

Industrial Unionism level

Local or Company Unionism level

Set-up theories

Company models

Management of humans resources

The company evolving

The conflict

Antagonism

The different forms of struggle

The lockout

Representative organizations and Politics

Trade Union autonomy

Management

Plan

Economic and social policy

Categories

Development

Communication

Methodology

Language

Means

European and International cooperation

European Unionism

Unions entrenchment in the emerging markets

Trade Unions and international bodies

Trade Union and public-sector employment

“Consociativismo”

Autonomous Unionism

The reform of collective bargaining

Readings/Bibliography

- Marianna De Luca, Nel rispetto dei reciproci ruoli. Lineamenti di storia della contrattazione collettiva in Italia, Vita e Pensiero, Milano, 2013

- M. Antonioli, Per una storia del sindacato in Europa, Mondadori, Milano, 2012

Optional books

- M. Carrieri, T. Treu, Verso nuove relazioni industriali, Ediz. Il Mulino, Bologna, 2013

- Gian Primo Cella, Il Sindacato, Edizioni Laterza, Bari, 2004

Teaching methods

Lectures with slides and group exercises on negotiation.

Assessment methods

The exam is oral.

The student can choose between two options:

1. Support a single full interview at the end of the entire cycle of lessons

2. Partial support two talks, the first part is fixed to the end of the first series of lectures (about April), the second at the end of the next cycle of lessons. Ratings partial contribute to the final grade

Teaching tools

Slides for the students

Office hours

See the website of Giuseppe Cremonesi