Conflict & Accommodation (Industrial Relations) Short Answer Assignment Instructions Complete the following short-answer questions addressing labour markets, the common law, and management strategies: 1. What are labour and capital? And how do their interests converge and conflict in the employment relationship? 2. What is a labour market and how does it work? 3. What is the labour process and how does it arise out of the challenges relating to the effective utilization of labour? 4. How has the organization of work changed over time, and why? 5. What are the common law duties and obligations of employers and employees? 6. How do these duties and obligations differ, and what do these differences tell us about the nature of the common law employment relationship? 7. What impact has the rise of service employment had on the labour market? 8. How might the basic dynamics of employment in a capitalist economy affect the operation ofand, indeed, the viability ofhuman resource management? 9. What are the three or four core beliefs of the unitarist perspective? 10. How does unitarism explain conflict between employers and employees? And how does unitarism advocate resolving conflict? Before you begin Assignment 1... 1. Be sure to read Assignments in `About IDRL 312.` 2. All quotations and sources of ideas should be identified by way of footnotes and bibliography. You must also acknowledge information you paraphrase (i.e., information you glean from a source and put into your own words), including material from the study guide or other course materials. Use APA style for citations of all sources outside this course website. For citing material from this course website, the authors of this course are Jason Foster and Bob Barnetson and the year of publication is 2012. If you quote material from the course website, use the lesson number instead of a page number in your citation: (Foster and Barnetson, 2012, Lesson 5, Note 3). 3. Answer each question separately; each answer should be between 200 and 300 words long.

Conflict & Accommodation (Industrial Relations)
Short Answer Assignment

Before you begin Assignment 1...
1. Be sure to read Assignments in `About IDRL 312.`
2. All quotations and sources of ideas should be identified by way of footnotes and bibliography. You must also acknowledge information you paraphrase (i.e., information you glean from a source and put into your own words), including material from the study guide or other course materials.
Use APA style for citations of all sources outside this course website. For citing material from this course website, the authors of this course are Jason Foster and Bob Barnetson and the year of publication is 2012. If you quote material from the course website, use the lesson number instead of a page number in your citation: (Foster and Barnetson, 2012, Lesson 5, Note 3).
3. Answer each question separately; each answer should be between 200 and 300 words long.

Instructions

Complete the following short-answer questions addressing labour markets, the common law, and management strategies:

1. What are labour and capital? And how do their interests converge and conflict in the employment relationship?
2. What is a labour market and how does it work?
3. What is the labour process and how does it arise out of the challenges relating to the effective utilization of labour?
4. How has the organization of work changed over time, and why?
5. What are the common law duties and obligations of employers and employees?
6. How do these duties and obligations differ, and what do these differences tell us about the nature of the common law employment relationship?
7. What impact has the rise of service employment had on the labour market?
8. How might the basic dynamics of employment in a capitalist economy affect the operation ofand, indeed, the viability ofhuman resource management?
9. What are the three or four core beliefs of the unitarist perspective?
10. How does unitarism explain conflict between employers and employees? And how does unitarism advocate resolving conflict?

PLEASE ONLY USE THE COURSE MATERIAL PROVIDED TO ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS. I have uploaded the course lessons below. In addition, the course readings/articles can be found at the following links:

Chapter 2 & 3
http://www.scribd.com/doc/184081642/Chap-2-3-pdf

Contemporary Management Practices
http://www.scribd.com/doc/184081989/Contemporary-Management-Practices-pdf