Employee Relations

by Ed Rose

"This is one of the very few books that can successfully cross the barrier between human resource management and industrial relations; making both subject matters, and employment relations generally, accessible to students. Already a key textbook in its field." - Pauline Grace, Dublin City University.This exciting new edition is essential reading for anyone approaching Employment Relations for the first time. It is suitable for undergraduate, post-graduate and CIPD students of Employment Relations, Industrial Relations, HRM or Personnel Management courses.Written in a lively, engaging and critical way, Employment Relations is structured around the themes of continuity, change, policies and practices and is divided into three main parts:*Employment Relations - the movers and shakers; parties, actors and institutions*Employment Relations - the patterns, the processes and the outcomes*Skills, practice and policy in Employment RelationsEd Rose covers the historical context and development of the subject, as well as the issues of today such as the changing workplace, employee participation, voice and partnership, discrimination and the future of Employment Relations.The book features ca; An Instructor's Manual with suggested tutorial exercises and activities and PowerPoint slides are online for lecturers at www booksites.net. Ed Rose is a Senior Lecturer in Employment Relations in the Business School at Liverpool John Moores University.

704 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2004