This subject presents an introduction to the areas of industrial relations and human resource management. Topics covered include historical steps in the development of the human resource function and the forces that have shaped its development; major functions of employment relations managers; the relationship between the human resource and industrial relations functions in the modern organisation; the nature of industrial relations and the contribution to understanding made by several conflict theorists; the structure and functioning of formal industrial relations; the form and function of the employer and employee organisations, parties to employment relations; and the nature of efficiency restructuring and enterprise bargaining and their impact upon the management of employment relations.

Footnotes:
1 Prior to Autumn semester 2004, this subject was called 21720 Employment Relations.

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