Industrial Relations: A Contemporary Approach - Mark Bray,Stephen Deery,Janet Walsh,Peter Waring

Key Features

CURRENCY: The whole text is thoroughly revised, including three new chapters. All other chapters are substantially updated.

Substantially revised chapters describe the changing nature of work and employment, management, the state and the federal industrial relations commissions, conflict and cooperation in the workplace and performance, efficiency and equity.
A realistic account of modern Australian unionism that assesses the reasons for its recent decline and the movement?s renewal strategies.
A new approach to enterprise bargaining that locates this current arrangement in the larger context of evolving `bargaining structures?.
Management prerogative is for the first time treated as an important and distinctive process for the regulation of the employment relationship.
A detailed account of individual contracting and its effects on current Australian industrial relations.

BEYOND `IR VERSUS HRM?: The long-standing debate about the definitions and relative strengths and weaknesses of IR versus HRM underlies the analysis in many chapters. This text also moves on from the debate by advocating a conceptual framework that transcends the old-fashioned and arbitrary distinctions between the two fields.

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS VERSUS EMPLOYEE RELATIONS: The text retains the tried and tested terminology of `industrial relations?, but it covers much of the ground recently claimed by `employment relations? and `employee relations?.

STUDENT-FRIENDLY: A new strong clean contemporary design, new pedagogical features and a lighter and more accessible writing style that retains the rigorous scholarship of earlier editions.

PEDAGOGIAL FEATURES:

Part Openers
Chapter Introduction
Learning Objectives
IR News boxes: assists student understanding by providing relevant and contemporary examples through newspaper reports of current events.
Work Story boxes: enhance student identification with the issues by personalising the issues through named characters who reappear in each chapter.
Final Observations
Summary
Discussion Questions
End of Chapter Case Study
Further Reading Recommendations