Topic $1$: What is Employment Relations $($Week $1$: Tutorial $1)$ Chapters $1$

$1.$ Discuss the History and Nature of Industrial Relations and the Rules and Employment Relations.

$2.$ What is the point of theory, and how is it supposed to help us understand the world we live in$?$

Topic $2$: The Study of Employment Relations: Analytical tool $($Week $2$: Tutorial $2)$ Chapter $2$

$1.$ Where did IR concept start, give a historical account of this?

$2.$ Why do students of any subject need to understand theory?

$3.$ Discuss the function of the Trade Dispute Act of your country or any Pacific Island Country and explain the importance of the Act to conflict resolution mechanism?

Topic $3$: The Study of Employment Relations: Values $($Week $3$: Tutorial $3)$ Chapter $3.$

$1.$ Differentiate between the Unitary, Pluralist and Marxist theory using examples?

$2.$ What should an employee think when his or her CEO or General Manager says that employees are the company$$s most important asset, and that employees and management are all part of the same team?

$3.$ Define a contract of employment and provide an example from an organization of your choice?

Topic $4$: The State $($Week $4$: Tutorial $4)$ Chapter $5.$

$1.$ List and discuss the $3$ major arms of a state?

$2.$ List and discuss the $5$ major objectives of the industrial relations legislations?

$3.$ Explain why the state is regarded as an important actor in employment relations; provide an example from your country or any PIC.

Topic $5$: Management and Employer Representatives $($Week $5$: Tutorial $5)$ Chapter $5.$

$1.$ What is Management prerogative?

$2.$ List and explain different types of employer associations and their functions.

$3.$ Why would organisations seek to link their employment relations policies to overall business strategies?

Topic $6$: Employee Representation: Unions $($Week $6$: Tutorial $6)$ Chapter $6.$

$1.$ Why do employees join unions and what do they expect to achieve from their membership?

$2.$ What is the difference between the Marxist and Reformist$$s explanations for the growth of trade unions?

$3.$ What is the difference between craft union and an industrial union? Are there any other types of unions? List and explain.

Topic $7$: Employee Representation: Non$-$Union $($Week $7$: Tutorial $7)$ Chapters $7$

$1.$ What does union democracy mean?

$2.$ Describe some major reasons for the decline in workers union affiliation rates?

$3.$ Explain the difference between compulsory and voluntary arbitration and provide an example each to support your explanation?

Topic $8$: State Regulation: Minimum Standards and Awards $($Week $8$: Tutorial $8)$ Chapter $8.$

$1.$ Discuss the content of collective bargaining.

$2.$ Describe three major roles of bargaining.

$3.$ Discuss the difference between dispute of interest and dispute of right?

Topic $9$: State Regulation: EEO, Unfair Dismissal and Safety at Work $($Week $9$: Tutorial $9)$ Chapter $9$

$1.$ What are the four major theories that relate to the needs for employee participation?

$2.$ Define the concept award and provide an example of an award.

$3.$ Has anti$-$discrimination laws in Pacific Island Countries $($PICs$)$ achieved the elimination of workplace discrimination? Provide example from your own country.

Topic $10$: Managing Unilateralism and Individual Contracting $($Week $10$: Tutorial $10)$ Chapters $9$ & $12$

$1.$ What are some major issues concerning redundancy and dismissal of employees?

$2.$ What is the difference between managerial prerogative and managerial unilateralism?

$3.$ Why do employers so strongly support managerial prerogatives?

Topic $11$: Collective Agreement$-$Making and Collective Bargaining: Structures and Processes $($Week $11$: Tutorial $11)$ Chapter $11$

$1.$ How does collective agreement$-$making differ from collective bargaining?

$2.$ What are some issues concerning discrimination in the workplace, how can we deal with them?

$3.$ Discuss the three major roles of bargaining and provide examples to support your discussions?

Topic $12$: Employment Conflict $($Week $12$: Tutorial $12)$ Chapter $12$

$1.$ What are some processes involved in the dispute settlement process?

$2.$ Is absenteeism really about employees being sick or about them avoiding work situations, they do not like?

$3.$ What can managers do to prevent labour turnover?

Topic $13$: Employment Relations and Performance $($Week $13$: Tutorial $13)$ Chapter $13$

$1.$ Discuss the emerging issues in IR and the way forward for all IR environment actors.

$2.$ Discuss the major changes in industrial relations processes affecting organisations of today?

$3.$ The neo$-$classical economists believe that unions reduce economic efficiency. Please explain this statement using examples to support your answers.