Mike Salamon is an established author in the field of employment relations with his well-known textbook - Industrial Relations: Theory and practice (4th ed.), 2000, FT Prentice Hall (Buy from Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.com). This eTextbook, Employment Relations, represents the development of a more flexible approach. The work is divided into 4 main parts:

• Perspectives - a range of concepts and approaches relating to employment relations, as well as the contexts and development of UK employment relations.
• Participants - the functions, organisation and issues facing the main participants in employment relations (employees, management, trade unions and the state).
• Processes - the various processes available to the participants in determining, conducting and regulating the employment relationship.
• Practices - the outcomes in respect of not only pay and working arrangements but also employee recognition and representation and the management of grievances, discipline and redundancy.

• Focus - provided at the start and end of each element in the form of Learning Objectives, suggested Key Issues, Summary, Further Reading and Supporting Activity.
• Flexibility – provided by links from the main text to a variety of ‘supplementary’ or ‘illustrative’ materials (in particular, case studies and country profiles), as well as links between different, but related, parts of the main text itself.

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