Managing Employment Issues in a Global Context

Develop a global perspective for dealing with international employment systems and understanding workplace diversity. Respond effectively to international labor and human rights challenges.

Description

Today's organizations operate in global markets where employment issues, regulations, and labor practices vary dramatically among countries and regions of the world. In order for officers and managers in multinational corporations to manage multiple, diverse branches of their business, they must understand workplace diversities and develop strong cross-cultural methods for handling them.

In this course, participants develop a global perspective of the variability and constantly changing labor issues in the regions where they operate. Participants explore international employment systems and examine several multinational case studies that will assist them in developing practical approaches for managing global employment issues and responding to international labor and human rights challenges.

Who Should Take This Course?

This course is essential for human resource and labor leaders, legal staff, and facility, business unit, and other operations managers and directors of U.S.-based multinational corporations who need to manage unionized or non-unionized labor forces abroad.

Course Format

All eCornell courses are delivered online and are self-paced. An eCornell instructor leads the online discussions, grades any course projects, and is available to answer specific questions about the course content.

This course contains the following modules:

• Global Employment Issues in Context
  • Labor relations at home and abroad
  • Compare and contrast to US systems
  • Global trends in labor relations and human resources management
  • Global labor relations and employment issues
• Practical Approaches to Global Employment Issues
  • Global labor rights pressures and challenges
  • International structure of labor relations and human resources management
  • Designing and implementing structures appropriate to multinational corporations

Benefits to the Learner

Participants who complete this course will be able to:

• Manage work forces and labor relations in global settings
• Anticipate global labor relations and employment issues
• Respond effectively to labor rights pressures and challenges
• Design labor relations structures appropriate to multinational companies

Authoring Faculty

Harry C. Katz, Ph.D., Dean

Sarosh Kuruvilla, Ph.D., Professor

Sponsoring School

Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations

Total Learning Time

Approximately five to six hours over a period of two weeks.

Certificate Information

This course can be applied toward the following certificates:

• Business Leadership Skills
• Systems and Processes in HR

HRCI Recertification

This course been approved for six (6) International HR Management recertification credit hours towards the GPHR designation, six (6) Strategic Management recertification credit hours toward SPHR and GPHR recertification and six (6) recertification credit hours toward PHR, SPHR, and GPHR recertification through the Human Resource Certification Institute. Please contact the Human Resource Certificate Institute (HRCI) for further information about certification or recertification.