Publication Type
Book Chapter
Version
submittedVersion
Publication Date
2008
Abstract
Employment relations—which form most of the 20th century was called industrial relations, and what some now call human resources and industrial relations—is a multidisciplinary field studying all aspects of work and the employment relationship (Ackers and Wilkinson, 2003; Budd, 2004; Kaufm an, 2004). A multidisciplinary approach means that competing values and assumptions underlie the analyses, policies, and practices of employment relations scholars, practitioners, and policymakers. Unfortunately, these underlying beliefs are often implicit rather than explicit, or, with the longstanding focus on how industrial relations processes work, sometimes ignored altogether. But understanding the employment relationship, corporate human resource management practices, labor union strategies, and work-related public policies and laws requires understanding how values and assumptions form the ideologies and frames of reference used by scholars, practitioners, and policymakers.
Keywords
Industrial relations, employee relations, values
Discipline
Labor Relations | Organizational Behavior and Theory
Research Areas
Organisational Behaviour and Human Resources
Publication
SAGE Handbook of Industrial Relations
Editor
Nick Bacon, P. Blyton, J. Fiorito & E. Heery
First Page
92
Last Page
113
ISBN
9781412911542
Identifier
10.4135/9781849200431
Publisher
SAGE
City or Country
London
Citation
BUDD, John W. and BHAVE, Devasheesh P..
Values, Ideologies, and Frames of Reference in Employment Relations. (2008). SAGE Handbook of Industrial Relations. 92-113.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/3678
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Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.4135/9781849200431.n5