Employment Relations,
2nd edition


By Ed Rose
Prentice Hall / Financial Times
September 2004
ISBN: 0273682598
704 Pages, 7 1/2 x 9 3/4"
$99.50 Paper

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The exciting second edition of this contemporary text is essential reading for those approaching Employment Relations for the first time. For undergraduate and post-graduate students on Employment Relations, Industrial Relations or HRM courses, or CIPD students, this is already a key textbook in its field.

Written from a management perspective in a lively, critical and engaging way, Employment Relations is structured around the themes of change, continuity, policies and practices.

The book is divided into three parts in order to cover the historical context and development of the subject, as well as the issues of today such as the changing workplace, incorporating contact / call centre analysis, employee participation, voice and partnership, discrimination and the future of employment relations:

* Employment Relations: movers and shakers; parties, actors and institutions
* Employment Relations: patterns, processes and outcomes
* Skills, practice and policy within the Employment Relationship

Contents:

Introduction

Ch.1: The nature and context of employment relations

Part One: Employment relations: institutions (collective)

Ch.2: Employers and the management of industrial relations

Ch.3: Trade unions and industrial relations

Ch.4: Government policy and employment relations

Part Two:
Employment Relations: patterns, processes and outcomes (collective)

Ch.5: The new industrial and workplace relations

Ch.6: In the absence of unions

Ch.7: Collective bargaining in Britain

Ch 8: Employee participation

Ch.9: Industrial action

Part Three:
Skills, practice and policy within the employment relationship

Ch.10: Negotiation and negotiating skills

Ch.11: Discipline and grievance

Ch.12: Discrimination within the employment relationship

Ch.13: Unfair dismissal, redundancy and tribunal procedure

Ch. 14: Conclusion: the future of ER

Overarching themes of continuity and change (1-9) and policies and practices (10-13).

Review

"Employee Relations covers areas from a critical perspective not always included in ER and HR textbooks and this is to be welcomed. It also contains a wealth of student activities including recent and relelvant case studies. This is an invaluable addition to any business school's courses and resources."
--Dr. Len Holden - De Montfort University.

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