The Partnership Approach

The subject of this study is the relationships between employees, employers and their representatives in the United Kingdom and mainly the changes that have occurred in the last few years.
What is meant exactly by employee relations? What has changed since the Industrial Revolution? Salaman 2000 defines employee relations as a 'reflection of the development of more diverse employment patterns, the growth of high tech and commercial sectors, reduced levels of unionisation and use of management strategies aimed at individualising the employment relationship', in other terms it is the new management of all the variables which influence the work namely the management style, the level of employee's motivation, the work environment, job satisfaction, the objectives of the company etc.
We can differentiate three phases in the evolution of employee relations since the end of the second world war, the third one being the partnership approach.
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