Employment Relations: An Integrated Approach

Introduce your students to a new way of looking at at Employment Relations! McPhail, Jerrard and Southcombe address the key topics of Employment Relations. They offer an industrial relations focus on human resources, and a human resources focus on industrial relations – a uniquely comprehensive approach. The textbook is packed with case studies, local and international examples, vignettes, legislative extracts and news articles to create student discussion and reflection on ideas across IR and HR.

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Features

• Opening vignette: A short opening vignette frames the concepts of the chapter for the students; there are two types of vignette – one a real-world workplace scenario that follows a staffer’s progress through various situations, and the other a case-based vignette relating to the forthcoming chapter theme
  
  
• ‘Insight into’ boxes provide profiles of Australian managers in interesting HR and IR roles, along with international perspectives on employment relations
  
  
• Cases within each chapter, along with selected legislative extracts and news articles, accompanied questions, encourage student discussion and reflection on their learning
  
  
• Learning Objectives are linked to end of chapter summaries for consolidation
  
  
• Key terms are highlighted and accompanied by margin definitions
  
  
• Each chapter ends with summaries, key terms and in-depth case studies with questions.

About the Authors

Dr. Ruth McPhail (B.Ed, M.Ed, PhD) is a Senior Lecturer at Griffith Business School, and Primary Program Director, Bachelor of Business. She has wide experience in management consulting, human resource management and leadership, having trained management teams in Australia, China, Malaysia, Thailand, the USA and India. She advises and trains with major multinational corporations, as well as Australian chains. Dr. McPhail was previously a high school educator before becoming a Director of Human Resources in industry before joining Griffith University. Currently, she teaches International human resource management and Leadership and self development Her research interests include cross cultural management, international human resource management, HR in Health Management and first year transition.

Marjorie Jerrard, a senior lecturer at Monash, holds a PhD in trade union strategy in the meat industry from Monash University, awarded in 2005, a Masters of Arts (Ancient History) from the University of Queensland and a Graduate Diploma in Industrial Relations from the Queensland University of Technology. Marjorie’s research interests are: trade union effectiveness and strategy; union-community alliances; trade unions and environmental issues and politics; industrial relations and human resource management in the Australian and New Zealand meat processing industries; and diversity management and industrial relations.

Amie Southcombe Amie is currently teaching Employment Relations, Organisation Structures and Design and Organisation Change. Her research expertise is in human resource development – learning in organisations; individual-organisation congruence; knowledge workers; affective commitment; and self-efficacy.