Table of Contents

Introduction: 1 The study of employment relations -- 2 Employment relations: disciplinary and theoretical perspectives -- Historical and legal frameworks: 3 Employment relations in New Zealand, 1840-1990 -- 4 The 1990s: the decade of the Employment Contracts Act -- 5 The Employment Relations Act -- 6 Employment relations in the new millennium (by Erling Rasmussen and Bernard Walker) -- 7 Occupational health and safety (by Felicity Lamm) -- 8 Equal employment opportunities -- 9 Employment and vocational training -- The major players in employment relations: 10 The role of the state in employment relations -- 11 Employers and managers: ideology, strategy and organisation -- 12 Workers and their unions: ideology, strategy and organisation -- Theoretical frameworks and issues: 13 The contract of employment -- 14 Bargaining, negotiation and the resolution of conflict (by Felicity Lamm, Gaye Greenwood, Ryan Lamare and Barry Foster) -- 15 Labour market models, flexibility and productivity -- 16 Work organisation and group behaviour -- 17 Employee participation and industrial democracy.

About the Author

Erling Rasmussen is professor of Work and Employment at the Department of Management, AUT Business School and has had several decades of involvement in employment relations research. He is co-editor of the New Zealand Journal of Employment Relations, a past president of the Association of industrial Relations Academics in Australia and New Zealand (AIRAANZ), and has undertaken research for governments, businesses and unions.