Master in Industrial and Employment Relations

In a fast-changing environment (political, economic, social, cultural, technological) in which governments, workers’ organizations employers and business membership organizations have to adapt their strategies continuously, a better understanding of the contemporary trends and challenges of different industrial and employment relations in the world is a compelling need.

To provide labour relations practitioners the best learning environment and the opportunity to engage in deep discussions related to Industrial and Employment Relations the International Training Centre of the International Labour Organization (ITCILO), in partnership with the University of Turin, Italy, is offering a Master in Industrial and Employment Relations. It includes a distance-learning phase with synchronous activities (weekly live Webinars), and an optional residential phase at the ITCILO campus in Turin, Italy, to deep dive into our learning centre, followed by a second distance-learning phase for the preparation of the Master’s thesis.

The online learning journey allows students to engage continuously with a global faculty coming from a wide range of institutions, from the ILO to universities, training and research institutions around the world. The Master also provides an opportunity to live a learning experience with practitioners and students coming from all the regions of the world.

The Master in Industrial and Employment Relations aims to develop specialized multidisciplinary knowledge in the field of industrial and employment relations from a comparative viewpoint. It will provide students with a deep theoretical and practical understanding of industrial and employment relations systems in the world, by looking into recent changes and trends.

The Master’s programme combines the sound academic background of the University of Turin with the ITCILO’s international training experience. An international approach has been applied to the content, the methodology as well as the composition of the faculty.

Since 1991, the International Training Centre of the ILO has offered postgraduate learning opportunities in disciplines of interest to an international audience of recent graduates and career professionals.

Over the last 10 years and in partnership with UN agencies and academic institutions, the Turin School of Development gradually expanded its portfolio of Masters and other Postgraduate Programmes. In Academic Year 2019-2020, ten programs are offered as follows:

• LL.M in International Trade Law
• LL.M in Intellectual Property
• Master in Management of Development
• Master of World Heritage and Cultural Projects for Development
• Master in Public Procurement Management for Sustainable Development
• Master of Applied Labour Economics for Development
• Master in Occupational Safety and Health in the Workplace
• Master's Programme in Industrial and Employment Relations
• Master in Social Innovation for Sustainable Development
• Master en gouvernance et management des marchés publics en appui au développement durable (delivered in French)

The Turin School of Development has developed a solid reputation for being truly international in the management, design, and delivery of these programs. Each program is co-managed by an international organization in its field of competence and the learning modules are delivered by a faculty of prominent professors, senior experts, and practitioners from around the globe.

The goal of our Masters and Postgraduate Programmes Our objective is to provide multi-disciplinary postgraduate learning opportunities with targeted content and effective delivery modalities which are conducive to imparting the essential competencies needed for dealing with today’s social, economic, and environmental priorities at national and global levels. The learning offers of the Turin School of Development are not intended to be in direct competition with similar programs offered by universities. They are selected and designed with a perspective of “differentiation” through a combination of features like:

• full involvement of specialized UN agencies and distinguished professional bodies in program design, delivery, and supervision.
• the intensive delivery that meets the learning requirements of a European Master; this is possible through an optimal combination of distance learning with face-to-face interaction, applied project development, and research work.
• comprehensive coverage of the full range of technical competencies and professional skills for specific jobs in today’s knowledge economy.
• the possibility of an internship with one of our institutional UN or professional partners.