This new and extensively updated edition of <i> Introducing Employment Relations </i> draws on the most up-to-date research and contemporary examples to help students develop their knowledge, understanding and critical assessment of the main issues relating to employment relations.Essential reading for undergraduates and postgraduates studying employment relations, human resource management, and business studies,<i> Introducing Employment Relations </i> contains a wealth of features designed to prompt students to critically reflect on how employment relations are regulated, experienced, and contested by organizations and employees; collectively or individually. Facilitating learning and prompting lively debates, such features include case studies, reflectivesegments, international perspectives, insights into practice, summary points, and end-of-chapter assignment and discussion questions.Whilst maintaining a critical focus to draw out the contemporary debates surrounding employment rel