Management
Work and Employment Today
Module code: N1085
Level 5
15 credits in autumn semester
Teaching method: Seminar, Lecture
Assessment modes: Computer based exam, Coursework
This module studies work as a human activity, using an interdisciplinary approach. You'll get a detailed overview of areas that shape work and employment today, including:
- key historic influences
- economic transformations
- political ideologies
- technological shifts
- main actors.
You'll explore the “big questions”, including:
- the evolving character of capitalism
- demographic trajectory of labour markets
- variable skills demands
- the opportunities and pitfalls of flexibility
- the role of gender and location in worker experiences
- and the impact of new technologies on the jobs of the future.
You'll gain perspective to help you connect the individual, organizational and societal aspects of work and employment.
Module learning outcomes
- Recognise the key emerging issues associated with the contemporary world of work and its future
- Show familiarity with key literature and theory related to these issues
- Identify and provide evidence from case studies and the practitioner literature of the existence of newmanagement and organisational practices in contemporary workplaces
- Offer critical reflection on the issues of inequality, exploitation and alienation in contemporary workplaces and of employment arrangements