Understanding Employment Relations

Tony Dundon is Senior Lecturer in Employment Relations and HRM at the National University of Ireland, Galway. He has published extensively on employment relations in smaller and non-union firms, employee voice and trade union organising. He is also Editor of the Human Resource Management Journal. Derek Rollinson was Principal Lecturer and Head of the Division of Organisational Behaviour at the University of Huddersfield. He is now an independent writer and researcher.

• PART 1 Introducing employment relations 1 The subject of employment relations2 Control in employment relations 3 The changing contexts of employment relations in Great Britain Integration 1 Comparing employment relations systems PART 2 The parties in employment relations 4 Employers, managers and management styles 5 Trade unions and other collective associations of employees 6 The role of the State in employment relations Integration 2Integrating parties and contexts in employment relations  PART 3 Interpersonal processes in employment relations7 Discipline and grievance 8 Dismissal and redundancy Integration 3Integrating the effects of interpersonal processes PART 4 Organisational processes in employment relations9 Employee voice 10 Equality and diversity management 11Collective bargaining and pay determination 12 Negotiation 13 Conflict and protest in employment relations Integration 4Integrating the effects of organisational processes Glossary Bibliography Index