Industrial relations is a post-industrial revolution term that replaced the expression "master-servant" used to define the relationship between a worker and an employer. Its origins are, as the term ...

Countries vary greatly in the individualism they exhibit. Individualist societies emphasize autonomy, assertiveness, freedom and independence. Societies with a more collectivist bent, in which the ...

Until the late 1970s the study of industrial and employment relations in Britain was highly parochial, derived almost exclusively from English-language sources. Textbooks and courses were merely ...

The relevance and continuing existence of industrial relations, as a field of academic study, is facing a number of challenges, particularly in English-speaking countries, as union membership declines ...

Australia’s industrial relations system is one of the most ­centralised in the Western world. It has been for most of the time since the establishment of the Commonwealth of Australia in 1901. Only on ...

OVER the last 40 years the most important and sensitive law on industrial relations has been repealed and enacted three times. The manner in which this subject has been handled by the successive ...

Still a significant perplexity of our time is the desire of so many people “to get the very most for their very least.” And when motivated by envy, greed or fear of deprivation, poses a hindrance “to ...

Industrial relations is a multidisciplinary field that studies the employment relationship. Industrial relations is increasingly being called employment relations or employee relations because of the ...